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SEA WORM SAMOAN DELICA®)
its Infrequent Arrival Always M
the Occasion for the Holding of.
a Great Festival.
Palolo. the most prized of all gusta
tory delicacies in Samoa, declared bj
Americans who have tried it to be su
perior to the lobster, 1s a marine
worm, being rather mysterious in that
it is never seen save on two or three
nights in the entire year. Its uppear-
ance seems to be regulated by the
moon.
The palolo chooses the time for its
first appearance on the night when
the October moon changes. When the
moon rises the sea is seen to be alive
with wriggling green and brown
worms, some of them a yard or more
in length. The natives make a festival
of the occasion, going out with dip
nets among the reefs and scooping up
the worms by the bushel. They pad-
dle around in every available boat
with lighted torches waiting for the
moon, and then the scene becomes one
of great and joyous excitement.
The palolo comes once again when
the November moon quarters, and is
not seen again until the following year.
It is said to live in crannies of the
corai reefs, coming to the surface to
spawn at these lunar periods. Some of
the worms are eaten as they wiggle,
but the bulk of the catch is reserved
for a big feast on the following day,
when they are wrapped in banana
leaves and baked.
YEAR ONCE BEGAN IN MARCH
Change in Style May Be Said to Date
From 1752—Great Militant
Events in Month.
Few people know, or, if they do,
have forgotten, that March, and not
January, at one time was the first
month of the year, remarks the Chi-
cago Journal. For commencing the
year with March there seems to be
sufficient reason in the fact that it is
the first season after the “dead year.”
in which decided symptoms of growth
take place.
The name is derived from the Ro-
mans, among whom it was at an early
period the first month of the year, and
continued to be in several countries to
a comparatively late period, the legal
year beginning, even in England. on
March 26, until the change of styie in
1752. For the Romans to dedicate
their first month to Mars and call it
Martius seems equally natural. con-
sidering the importance they attached
to war and the use they made of it.
In the history of our own country
April appears to carry off the palm
for the month in which great militant
events occurred, yet in the world war
a number of epoch-making incidents
took place in March; for instance, the
revolution in Russia in 1917, when
Czar Nicholas abdicated on March 15.
The big drive on the 50-mile front
from Arras to La Feu began on the
21st, and Paris was in that month bom-
barded by “Big Bertha.”
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Strong Caps of Paper.
Astonishing strong paper caps, capa-
ble of withstanding powerful blows,
though extremely light in weight, have
been invented by a shipyard employee,
and are intended to be worn by work-
men whose duties expose them to dan-
ger from falling objects, says Popular
Mechanics’ Magazine.
The process by which the novel head-
gear is produced has not been divulged,
but it is known that chemicals are em-
ployed to harden the material, without
adding to its weight. Several styles
have been made, the lightest weighing
about seven ounces, and others slightly
more. In a recent test, a 1-pound bolt
was dropped on one of them from a
height of forty feet, with the result
that a barely perceptible dent was
made in the paper. The novel head
coverings are proof against water and
acids, and are nonconductors of elec-
tricity.
Heat for Alaska.
The Pacific has its own “Gulf
stream,” which is called the Japan
current, and it is formed in the same
way.
The trade winds, blowing from the
tropics, bank up the warmed ocean
waters in the Yellow sea (correspond-
ing to our Gulf of Mexico), and thence
they pour out between Japan and For-
mosa, the stream thus formed passing
south of the Aleutian chain, along the |
southern coast of Alaska, and down
the west coast of North America.
Hence it comes about that the whole
southern coast of Alaska has a tem-
perate climate. It is warmed by the
Japan current.
What Really Keeps Time.
As a measurer of time the pendu-
lum ranks today as the most perfect
of our instruments, says the Scientific
American. It is the part of a clock
that keeps time. All the rest of the
mechanism is simply for the purpose
of keeping up its vibration or to point
on a dial the number of vibrations it
has made. It swings back and forth
in a complete arc 30 times each min-
ute, but allows the escape-wheel to |
move a cog at each vibration, thus
checking off on the dial, by means of
PLEASANT GAP
paign.
planks for their platform.
session.
have a decided advantage.
Republican column to succeed.
ite sons.
right to which they are entitled.
Who is our neighbor?
we are personally
neighbor is the guy who borrows the
wire stretcher, and lawn mower and
doesn’t seem to be able to remember
where he borrowed it. Our neighbors
the Noll Bros. purchased four wire
stretchers in the past three years; and
today they are minus all their stretch-
ers, simply because they loaned them
to “Tom, Dick and Harry,” without
keeping a record, hence they were
swindled out of what justly belonged
to them. The honesty of some people
is questioned.
Should MeAdoo be nominated at
San Francisco, Republican campaign
orators can use a great deal of the
material which Senator Lodge embod-
ied in his opening address at the Chi-
cago convention. McAdoo as Wil-
son’s son-in-law, will have to carry the
sins of the present Administration if
he runs for President. But a good
many thoughtful members of the
party think there is something more
in Republicanism than opposition to
a Democratic President. Is it a politi-
cal strategy to attack Wilson. But
his administration is about the only
issue that has thus far been injected
into the campaign.
General Pershing is seeking a big-
ger job, his request from active duty
in the army is not surprising. The
duties incumbent on him were the sup-
ervision of the army reorganization
and when that is done his active mili-
tary career will be finished. He spent
thirty-eight years in the army; and
such service might have been expected
to unfit him for any other career. But
present employment seem, by com-
One thing that will be settled at
i San Francisco is just how much the
| Reds were worth to Palmer's cam-
The Republican delegates at Chi-
cago evidently thought they were dry
enough without sawing out any dry
Political conventions come high, but
we have the .consolation of know-
ing that the country’s saving money
every day that Congress is not in
When it came to nominating Presi-
dential candidates the doubtful States
Pennsyl-
vania is too strongly entrenched in the
If the alcoholic content at Chicago
was as low during the convention
week, as some correspondents report,
it must have been a dry proposition
to pump out the prolonged cheers that
had to be manufactured for the favor-
In America we want the women to
get the vote in time to share in the
Presidential election, though they will
divide on party lines just as the men
do. Women are people, though they
are not a peculiar people; and if we
are fo have government by the people
we cannot deny half of them the
So far as
concerned, our
parison, hardly worth while for a
man who still looks forward for many
years of activity. He wants more
work. It is no reflection upon the
peace-time Army, and it is distinctly
to the credit of the General, that
Pershing is not retiring for a rest but
is retiring for a larger chance to
work. He is looking forward to a life
of more activity than he is at present
enjoying.
BOALSBURG.
Henry Hosterman built a new gar-
age last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer spent
Friday in Williamsport.
Mr. and Mrs. James Reed transact-
ed business in Centre Hall last week.
Misses Beulah Fortney and Rosalie
McCormick are visiting relatives in
Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. John Garbrick, of
Bellefonte, were callers in town on
Sunday.
G. E. Meyer is building an addition
to his home on the corner of Church
and Pine streets.
Dr. Miller, of Philipsburg, conducted
services in the Presbyterian church on
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mollie Hoffer, of State College,
is spending some time at the home of
Leonidas Mothersbaugh.
Miss Edith Sankey, of Potters
Mills, called on friends in town while
her brother, M. A. Sankey, transact-
ed business.
Mrs. Susan Keller, of Rockview,
visited friends in town last week.
Quite a number of people from over
the county attended the Sunday school
conference in the Lutheran church on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Johnson and daughter, Miss
Mary J., of Crafton, are guests of
Mrs. Irvin Johnson, at the home of
Mrs. M. A. Woods.
William Rockey is building a con-
crete and tile garage, and also im-
proving the appearance of his home
by laying concrete walks.
The first organized class of the Re-
formed Sunday school will have a
strawberry festival on the church
lawn on Saturday evening.
The Modern Woodmen of State Col-
lege, decorated the graves of their de-
parted members in the Boalsburg
cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
Lieut. Pierre Boal and family, of
Washington, D. C., arrived in town
last week and for the present will live
at the Boal home west of town.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Tussey and
son returned to their home in Sinking
Valley on Monday, after a pleasant
visit among friends in this vicinity.
Charles Hosterman and Russell Ish-
ler, students at Penn State, went to
Washington county last week, where
they expect to be employed during the
summer vacation.
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ringing pledge!
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give you an Independence Day musica! program,—a vivid suggestion of
how to make the Fourth a day of finer meaning in your home.
We'll send a New Edison to your home—together with a fine group of patri-
Celebrate
—-let the bands play
© —and the songs ring out
Our Budget Plan will turn your <<fireworks’’
money into a first payment.
similar economies provide the balance.
Why throw your money into the air on the
Isn’t it a finer patriotism, a bigger
family policy, to spend it on music—good music?
~What’s a Fourth without music?
The thrill in those grand, old airs of the Repub-
The memories!
Al these and. more—-—have been given life by the
soaring art and the fervid hearts of great artists!
«The Phonograph with a Soul”
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The perfect realism of the New Edison was
astonishing test made March
10, 1920, at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
Anna Case, world-famed soprano, matched her
voice directly against its Re-CreaTION bythe New
During the test, the lights went out.
the darkness, could not tell
whether Anna Case was singing or whether the
New Edison was RE-CREATING her voice.
You can experience the New Edison’s supreme
realism for yourself. Come in and let us give.
Realism Test.
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Reduction Sales Continued
In answer to the many inquiries as to
how long our Reduction Sales last, we
will continue the sales as long as our
merchandise holds out.
Ginghams, Cretonnes, Muslins, Per-
cales, Voiles and Silks at less than
wholesale prices today.
Rugs, Linoleums and Carpets are all
in this Reduction Sale.
We still have all sizes in high and
uw White Shoes for ladies and chil-
ren.
Coats and Suits
Ladies’ Coats, all sizes, all colors and black, in
long and sport lengths, at less than manufactur-
ers’ cost.
Coat Suits
All sizes in regular and stouts, in all colors and
black; all this season’s models; at more than 25
per cent. off.
Men’s Shoes
Dress and Work
It will mean two dollars for one.
See our prices on Men's
Shoes.
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