Bellefonte, Pa., April 30, 1920.
MURDER MADE EASY MATTER
With Formula Possessed by English
Chemist, Slayer Might Laugh at
Human Law.
The lunch-time conversation of the
scientists at the national physical lab-
oratory, Teddington, shifts daily to
all sorts of interesting subjects, and it
was inevitable that the topic of mur-
der should have been suggested by the
“wave crime” in Great Britain (an epi-
demic that amounts to less than one
homicide a week).
It was agreed that all the murders
reported in the daily papers were com-
monplace, dull, sordid affairs, showing
no ingenuity and deliberation. “If I
had a murder to commit, how should
I go about it?” became the theme.
The metallurgists, electricians, radi-
ologists, physicists and other scientists
had many astounding murder methods,
but with a common weak point, writes
an English correspondent. None of
them disposed of the body so that de-
tection would be not only improbable,
but impossible.
It remained for a chemist to solve
the problem. “I would not be so clever
as you in the assassination itself,” he
said. “Any quick way of silent dis-
patch would do. But I could swiftly
dissolve a body, bones and all, so that
it could be poured as a liquid into a
sewer and be thoroughy done away
with. No; I mustn't give the formula.”
He was the victor in the discussion.
MADE THEIR OWN OIL WELL
How Two Small Boys Reaped Rich
Reward for the Exercise of
a Little Ingenuity.
Two barefoot boys, respectively
eleven and twelve years of age, earned
forty-five hundred dollars in one week,
according to the Oil Weekly of Dallas,
Texas, by combining thrift and ingenu-
ity in a telling manner. Much oil was
going to waste in the Northwest
Burkburnett oil field because the pipe
lines were inadequate, when the boys,
who are brothers, saw trude oil from a
broken pipe running down a small
ravine. Hitching a donkey to a rattle-
trap spring wagon, they began to haul
dirt to dam the ravine and succeeded
after much hard work in collecting a
great quantity of oil.
The owner appeared on the scene
about that time, and he admired the .
pluck of the youngsters.
claim the oil outright, although it had
He did not |
been his, but offered the youngsters
one dollar and a half a barrel salvage |
for it. The youngsters accepted his
offer and; perching themselves on their :
new dam with stubs of pencils, check- |
ed out the oil as it was hauled away.
It tallied exactly three thousand bar-
rels, and the boys got their money.
Fewer Figs Reach Market.
The fig yield of the vilayet of Aiden
has arisen from approximately 9,000
tons raised on 10.000 acres of land |
about thirty years ago to about 23,000
tons raised on 25,000 acres.
However, |
this advance in supply has not kept !
pace with the demand, and prices of |
figs have steadily risen.
ducing areas are, under normal condi-
tions, exclusively tapped by the Otto- :
man (Aiden) Railway company’s Sys-
The big pro- |
tem. The orchards. located mainly in ,
the Meander valley, are owned chiefly |
by Turks. The best figs are produced
in the Inovassi and Ortaxe districts.
The product is marketed in Smyrna,
where the figs are packed in accord-
ance with the demand of the region to
which the figs are exported. Blight,
neglected fertilization and lack of com-
munication have cut down this season’s
export output to about 10000 tons.
Exports went to the United States
(about 4,000 tons) the United Kingdom
(5,500 tons), and European entente
countries (about 1,000 tons).
Is It Still Coffee?
Two young man walking along
Chestnut street the other evening met
two girls, recent acquaintances, dress- |
ed in height of fashion—fur coats and
hats, expensive looking shoes, and in-
vited them to go to a high-class res-
taurant.
The girls agreed and after they had
finished eating, they were asked if
they would enjoy a demi-tasse.
They looked at each other.
“Is it some sort of sundae?’ in-
quired one as though there might be
some hidden joke in the invitation.
“DAD” ROYALE'S LUCKY DAY
Old Man Had Reason to Be Thankful
That His Pig Developed Quality
of Enterprise.
One of the most important applica-
tions of geological science is the point-
ing out of places likely to yield stores
of mineral wealth. And yet, where
copper is concerned, the really great
discoveries in this country have been |
made by pure luck.
It was Old Man Royale’s pig that
located. according to the story, the
richest copper mine in the world—the
famous Calumet lode.
Old Man Royale was not interested
in mining; he kept a boarding house.
But his pig was gifted with the valu-
able quality of enterprise.
in the back yard, it “snooted up” a
prehistoric Indian cache.
The cache contained a large quan-
tity of copper, a fortune in itself. But
examination of the rock beneath dis-
closed veins of the metal, and mining
operations thereupon undertaken de-
veloped the Calumet lode, which has
since paid $145,000.000 in/ dividends
and $500,000,000 in wages.
“Native” copper was used to a con-
siderable extent by the Indians in pre-
Columbian days, for ornamental pur-
poses chiefly. Ancient aboriginal skel-
etons have been dug up wearing cop-
per masks. In Michigan they got cop-
per out of rocks by
against them; and
Grubbing |
building fires |
huge nuggets of !
“mass” copper weighing hundreds of
pounds have been found in the Lake
Superior region which showed signs
of unsuccessful attack. The Indians
had no tools with which to cut up
such great lumps, and they could not ; troops and compelled a band of skiers
carry them away bodily.
Copper is the American metal par
excellence, and of all the metals is
the most useful to mankind, iron alone
excepted.
Plan to Irrigate Egypt.
For many years projects have been
under consideration for obtaining such
MAY USING SKIS
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Ancient and Exhilarating Sport
Grows in Favor.
Enthusiastic Devotees Are Hailing It
as King cf Winter Sports—Has
Long Figured in History
and ‘legend.
A thousand years ago, or there-
abouts, some thoughtful Norseman
found that long. thin strips of wood
fastened to his war-boots enabled him
to get over the snow-clad plains and
mountains of his native land easily
and with great speed. Before long all
the hardy Norsemen were going
around to fight or to wassail on these
useful aids to winter travel,
became known as ski, pronounced by
the Norsemen as if spelled s-h-e. So
popular did skiing become that, ac-
cording to Norse mythology, even one
of the ancient viking gods went in for
it. Olaf Trygvasson, best loved and
most ‘celebrated of the old Norwegian
hero kings. is said to have been an
expert skier. Another king. one of the
early Haakons, escaped from pursuers
with designs on his life. by traveling
five hundred miles on ski, over one
of the most rugged sections of Nor- |
way. Norse soldiers were equipped
with skis and at the important bat-
tle of Stiklestad ski regiments played
an important part. In later times,
during a war on Norway conducted
by Charles XII, Swedish scouts dis
. covered the location of the Norwegian
! to guide them through the woods at
night. The wily Norwegian skimen
led the Swedes to a precipice, threw
their burning torches down the moun-
. tain side, and then made a quick ‘“get-
i away.”
The Swedes, following the
| lights, were hurled to death on the
a complete control of the waters of |
the upper Nile as will enable Egypt
to develop its agricultural resources
. to the utmost and to secure the coun-
try against the dangers of excessive
floods, while permitting the Sudan
also to develop to some extent its own
vast resources.
rocks below. While skiing in the be-
ginning was held in esteem, particular-
ly on account of its practical utility,
its possibilites as a sport were also
| recognized after a time, and today it
easily ranks as the king of winter
sports. “It has gained followers in a
most surprising manner the past twen-
, ty-five years,” says G. C. Torguson,
The works contemplated will extend
over a generation and involve the ex- :
penditure of tens of millions of dol- |
lars, affecting the entire future of irri- :
gation throughout the Nile basin.
The commission, it
will consist of three members: An
irrigation engineer nominated by the
government of India as president and
a British pyhsicist nominated by the
University of Cambridge, while to
draw on the wide experience available
in America on questions of irrigation
and water supply. and still further
to strengthen the independence of the
commission, an irrigation engineer
nominated by the government of the
United States will constitute the third
member.
Aerial Game Laws.
Modern inventions beget new man-
pers and new laws to govern the
changed customs. The man who nets
fish wholesale seems about to be out-
classed by the airplane operator who
gathers in wild birds by means of a
net. So, apparently, think the sports-
men in one locality of Canada. As a
consequence, an association of them
are sponsoring a request to the gov-
ernment to prohibit the flights of air-
planes over marsh lands, and the use
of flying machines in pursuit, shoot-
ing, or netting of wild fowl. When
warned of anything approaching
is reported, :
3 p ' of our own country.
writing in Outers’ Recreation (Chi-
cago). Ski associations have been or-
ganized in almost every northern coun-
try both in Europe and America. he
tells us. Recently clubs have been
formed in the Rocky Mountain states
Tungsten.
. man to whom wealth proved a curse.
which |
. last his mania reached such a stage that
Nearly everybody is familiar with
the tungsten filament electric
lamp. |
hut few are aware that the filaments
which give so effective a light are
made from metal without ever having
been fused. The melting point of
tungsten is about 3,000" degrees” C.
(5.432 degrees F.), a
temperature |
which has been beyond that attainable !
in any ordinary metallurgical furnace.
"A method of actually fusing this re- |
. fractory metal has now, it is said by
these birds do not seek cover, but rise i
immediately into the air and obviously
become open at once to the ingenious
contrivances of airplanists. Rapid-fir-
ing guns, and nettings attached be-
neath the body of the machines, would
seem to be an easy means of possible
extermination of the birds, and this
it is sought to avoid.
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Had to Look the Part.
A perpetually unshaven fellow who
a German authority, been devised by
a Berlin engineer, which will permit
of the metal being cast in any desired
form, and of being subsequently
worked into any malleable shape. in-
cluding wire for electric lamps. In-
cidentally it would appear that tung-
sten carbide will also become avail
able, and as this carbide is practically
as hard as the diamond—the difference
being only as 9.8 to 10—it will be used
in future for those numerous grinding
and cutting operations which can only
be effected at present by the diamond.
Boy's Prayer-a Gem.
Ex-Governor Stone of Pennsylvania,
who has just passed away, was a great
lover of horses.
His pet. as a youth,
named Midnight.
When Midnight—still a colt—died,
as the result of a tumble, the boy was
inconsolable.
He tells in his autobiography, “The
was a colt
‘ Tale of a Plain Man,” about the fu-
‘ peral he conducted in solitude over the
runs a news stand near the winter
garden was haled into court the other '
day for some trival charge. He plead-
ed his own case and was dismissed.
The magstrate was interested in his
excellent address and his knowledge
of the law. He explained that he had
been admitted to the bar and-was a
graduate of a big eastern college.
could only make $1,000 a year with
my law,” he said, “and I make about
$12,000 a year selling newspapers. It
may surprise you to see how unkempt
I am, but it is business psychology.
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If 1 dressed in good clothes people !
«] don’t think it would go good af- |
+ York Times.
ter a hearty meal,” said the other.
The young fellows gave it up.
“Would you like some coffee?’ asked |
one of them.
“Sure,” replied the girls in chorus,
“that’s what we was waiting for youse
guys to ask us.’—Philadelphia Record. |
Reproductivity of Pearls.
There is nothing new under the sun,
and the idea of placing pearls in a:
bag with a little rice, and finding af- |
ter many years that their
have increased, a very ancient
om probably cost $100 next year.”—Bir- |
tice, is claiming attention in the Eng-
lish press. That the rice has the
appearance of being “pecked” adds a
further touch of the familiar, and
people are asking what kind of rice
pearls like best. In the time of
Boetius de Boot, the
not only of pearls but of diamonds
was a common belief, The explana-
tion that the pearls now occupying
attention are vegetable pearls from
the Malay states would not have sat-
isfled Boetius.
reproductivity
would not purchase from me.”—New i
Taking the Sting Out.
“It seems to me,” said the old-fash-. |
ioned man, “that $75 is a lot of money |
to pay for a readymade suit of
clothes.”
“Perhaps it is,”
replied the pur- |
chaser, “but the salesman made the
transaction as painless for me as pos- |
sible.”
“How so?”
“He told me the same suit would
mingham Age-Herald.
Sense of Delicacy.
hody of his four-footed friend.
“] had no book, but I knelt down
over his body and tried to say a
prayer.
“] prayed: ‘Oh, Lord, if there is a
horse heaven, let Midnight go to it. 1
hope there is, as I want to see Mid-
night again. Make we as good boy as
Midnight was a colt.
“TI had no audience, but a bluejay
and a woodthrush were singing, and I
heard a squirred barking a bass
chorus.”
It Wag No Place for It.
The trial of Rollin Bunch, mayor,
and Horace Murphy. prosecuting at-
torney of Muncie, was on in the Unit-
ed States district court at Indianapolis
and every day Mpyncie persons and
others who were acquainted with the
remarkable case came too late to ob-
tain seats in the courtroom. A Mun-
cie young woman one day rushed im-
puisively up to a man acquaintance
whose business took him inside the
courtroom, and finding all the seats
were taken she exclaimed, “Oh, can’t
you squeeze me in there?” “No,” he
responded gravely, “not in there.”
The New Way.
Dick Slowe—Will you go sailing
"down the stream of life with me?
“Are you not aware,” said the heart-
less friend, “that a presidential boom
will not be of the slightest practical
service to you?”
“Yes.” replied Senator Sorghum,
“Then why do you insist on cultivat-
ing one?”
“As a matter of courtesy. [ don’t
want to seem to be trying to coart
publicity by being different from
everybody eise.”
The Girl—You're too late. Jack
Smart made me promise to go aviat-
ing through life’s air with him.—Bos-
ton Transcript.
Logical Finish.
Mr. Pester—More magazine rot? 1
wonder why every love story has to
end im marriage,
His Wife—They run out of material
Marringe is where the love ends.
| it will not permit her passage.
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HIS VAST WEALTH A CURSE
Sudden Possessicn of Immense Aiotiee
Too Much for Mental Stability
of Mexican Indian.
Confined in an asylum for the insane
in Mexico is a millionaire who never
enjoyed a cent of his fortune, though
for a time he had it in his possession
in cash. The amazing story of this
is told by G. F. Weeks in the Wide
World Magazine.
Juvencio Robles, a full-blooded
Mexican Indian. was born in a palm |
leaf hut in the little town of Panuco, |
inland from Tampico. From earliest
childhood he was forced to work. his
wages amounting to less than 50 cents
a week. When arrived at manhood he
married and from then on turned his
earnings over to his wife as banker.
For several years he led a colorless
existence, serimping along day by day
and saving little. Then one day some
friends inveigled him into a card game.
Fortune was with him and he won
what was a great sum to them, $18.
This he invested in a small butcher
shop. The market thrived and a few
vears later he was able to buy some
land on which to fatten cattle. When
oil was discovered at Tampico his
ranch was in the heart of the field.
He was offered 1,000,000 pesos and
yearly royalties for the oil rights on
his land. This he accepted. but de-
manded payment in gold.
The money was delivered to him as
he requested. and from then on his
sole interest in life consisted in guard-
ing his treasure. He slept on a box
filled with coins and refused to eat for
fear his family would poison him. At
that it was necessary to have him con-
fined.
RAIL LINE CROSSES OCEAN
Remarkable Trip That Is Taken by
Travelers on Their Way to Key
West, Florida.
Thousands of Americans at the va-
cation time of the year take the only
ocean trip which can be made on a
railroad train, writes “Niksah” in the
Chicago News. They go to Key West
by way of the line which runs through
the Atlantic ocean on an embankment
built from one to another of those tiny
islands known as the Florida keys.
As you ride along this remarkable
railroad, you look out the window and
down into the clear shallow water and
see great schools of fish playing near
the surface, and deeper down you can
glimpse now and then the shadowy !
form of a small shark. On either side |
of you reaches away to the horizon a
vast expanse of brilliant blue water,
dotted with islands, which vary in size
from a fraction of an acre, to perhaps | El
i Lal
a quarter of a square mile. They are
low and flat and covered with low- |
growing mangroves, and other swamp |
plants. Here and there a group of |
coconuts or royal palms lifts a feath- |
ery silhouette. Occasionally a little |
shack is glimpsed, and a few sails are
seen in the distance, but for the most
part the region is a wilderness of blue
water, white sand and low-growing
jungle—a wilderness that you would
love to explore in a small boat.
¢ Of life you see little. Now and then
white flocks of ibises rise from the is-
lands; a tree duck spatters clumsily
away from the train, or a great blue
heron trails his legs in lonely dignity
across the sky. For the most part
zilence and sunlight own the place.
Chinese Mail Up tec Date.
The Chinese mail bag is now a pop:
ular institution throughout the whole
of the ancient empire. Established 23
vears ago, active development of the
department only began after the Box-
er revolution. In 1918 6,000 miles of
overland routes were added to the serv-
ice. And now a new continuous over-
land courier route of roughly 3,375
miles, the longest in the world, con-
nects Kalgan by way of Mongolia with
Tihwafu, capital of the Sinkiank (Chi-
nese Turkestan) following in part the
old trade routes from China to Persia.
The townspeople of a flourishing man-
ufacturing district were so enraged re-
cently by the delay of mail that they
appealed to the court, and the party
responsible was ordered to be decapi- |
tated if he offended again. Probably
they had missed their copies of the
Family Herald!
With the Children.
Gene Stratton Porter, age two ond
one-half, daughter of Dr. E. A. Por-
ter, Hartsville, Ind, has difficulty |
finding proper words to express her-
self, as most children at that age do.
Personal pronouns are particularly
difficult.
One of her friends asked Gene to | [§
go home with her recently.
"4 want to go home with
mother, can me?
there with she.”
One morning she came downstairs
with her shoes on the wrong feet and
looking at them with a puzzled ex-
Hazel, |
I want to go down
pression said: “Mother, me got
my shoes on wrong side out.”—Indian-
apolis News. .
Vessel Too Big for Docks.
America, it seems, with all her prog-
ress in shipbuilding, has no dock on’
the Atlantic coast suitable for repair | §
ing a vessel like the Leviathan or the
Imperator, says Shipping. When the
Leviathan needed overhauling, she had
to he sent to Liverpool to the big Glad-
stone dock. Even there it was neces- |
sary to wait for the new and the full
moon to dock and undock her, as the
highest tide was required to “boat her | §
Lyon & Co.
over the sill.” The dock at Norfolk,
Va., it seems, is big enough to float the
Leviathan, but the channel leading to
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For Big Little Girls
We have just received a full line of low
shoes for growing girls, made in Vick Kid,
Gun Metal, and Dark Tan Vici; low heels,
all solid leather, sizes from 232 to 7.
The Price is Only $6.50 and $7.00
Bring your big little girl to our store
and have her fitted.
Yeager’'s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE. PA.
58-27
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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Come in and let us show you a few of our “La
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Speaking of Quality Hosiery
“Silver Star” Hosiery includes styles for every-
one in the family, big and little, and for every pur-
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weights; dress, play and school stockings for the
kiddies, and stockings for women in silk, sheer lisle
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