Benorraic Waid
"Bellefonte, Pa., January 14, 1921.
HIGH PLAY AT MONTE CARLG
Tables Always Full and Bank Doing
Well, Says Londoner Who Brought
Back Some Money.
Walter Martin, a Piccadilly cigar
dealer, has the distinction of having
broken the bank at Monte Carlo three
times in an hour recently and to have
returned to his home in London with
money in his pocket, according to the
London correspondence of the Sun and
New York Herald. To many persons
who have heard wonderful accounts of
winnings—and losses—at Monte Carlo,
“to break the bank,” looks big. How-
ever, Mr. Martin’s winnings in that
one hour of play netted him just 15,000
francs, today worth about $985 in
American gold.
Mr. Martin admits that he was “in
luck.” He said that he played with
“a defensive system” of his own.
Two “sittings” stood out in his mem-
ory. One of them was when he broke
the bank as related above. The other
was when he lost 500,000 francs. He
played roulette.
“I was able to pay the living ex-
penses of myself and a party of
friends off the tables, and also to come
home ‘in pocket’ as a result of my
two months’ visit,” he said.
“In the whole of my experience at
Monte Carlo. and T am an old player,
I do not remember the tables so crowd-
ed. It is difficult to get a seat. British
and French are at Monte Carlo in
about equal numbers, and one thing
that struck me was the number of
women players. I should say the
there are three of them to every man.
“I saw several well-known people
who were having bad luck and losing
a lot, but one young Frenchman had
done amazing well and in three months
had won £250,000. And, like a wise
man, he had packed up and gone away
with it.
“The tables, however, are prospering
greatly, owing to the number of in-
axperienced and reckless players.”
SAYS BEES HAVE LANGUAGE
University Professor Asserts That
They Also Have Some Sort of
Telegraphic System.
Bees have a language and a system
of telegraphy, according to Profes-
sor ['rancis Jager, chief of the divi-
sion of bee culture at the University
of Minnesota farm. Wonderful prog-
ress has been made in bee culture, but
their means of communication still re-
main a mystery, according to Profes- |
sor Jager.
Professor Jager has conducted many
experiments in an effort to learn some-
thing of the bee's mysterious form of |
communication. In one of them he took.
the queen bec cut of a hive, which |
was four or five feet high. As soon |
as the working hees discovered their
leader was missing they began crying. |
The crying was audible four or five
feet from the hive. Within 36 sec-
onds after the queen bee had been re-
placed at the hottom of the hive the
crying subsided at the top of the hive,
and they shoved their joy by standing
on their heads. according to Professor
Jager.—St. Paul Daily News.
Keep Life's \W'ndows Open.
Life is constantly confronted with |
new ideas. They must be examined be- |
fore being accepted. In this as in
everything else there mast be the right
light in which to make the examina-
tion. The bright light that makes the
diamond flash destroys the sensitized
plate. Each must have the light it |
needs to meet the thing it was made !
for. So each challenging thought must |
have its setting and life's windows are
the media through which we see them.
He who knows how to use his win-
dows can have just the kind of light
fe needs within. He who closes his
windows to the light is sure to settle
farther and farther into himself and
sour in his own stagnation. To live
sweet and fresh lives men must see.
It’s a matter of opening the windows,
—Exchange.
Ludicrously Low Prices.
From a letter just received in New
York from Prague, Czecho-Slovakia:
“This city is one of the most beau-
tiful places I ever saw. And the
- prices just now, if you have American
money, are simply- ludicrous. My
room at the best hotel cost me 75 cents
a day. You can dine at the best res-
taurants, with wine thrown in, for 50
to 75 cents. I just sent out a pair of
shoes to be repaired by a cobbler, and
what do you think the profiteer
charged? Five cents! And you can
go downstairs to the so-called Amer-
ican bar and get a champagne cobbler
for 25 cents and a Martini cocktail for
15 cents. Just got my week’s bill from.
my hotel. Seven days’ lodging and
breakfasts—$6! and it’s the best hotel
in Prague!”
i
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Jamaican Women Given Vote.
Under a new law the women of
Jamaica, British West Indies, are to
have a vote in the elections for the
parochial boards and the legislature.
Bvery woman is entitled to vote if
she is twenty-five years of age or more,
can read and write and is of British
nattonality, but she must have also cer-
tain salary or property qualifications.
The salary designated is £5 a year, or
she must pay £10 in rent or £2 rates
on house, lands or personal property.
For Sale.—Sixty houses and lots.—
J. M. Keichline. 65-40-3m
NEW IDEA IN MOTIVE POWER
Vertical Vines Used in Windmills
Forestall Possibility of Idleness
in Any Weather.
Europe is facing a serious shortage
of fuel, of all kinds. Coal, gas, gaso-
line, wood, alcohol—all these fuels are
lacking. The result is that inventors
have turned out in force to solve the
power problem in new ways. A French
inventor has developed a new form of
windmill in which vertical vanes are
used. The advantages of this form are
said to be: Power—no matter in what
direction the wind is blowing; noise-
less operation; the windmill does not
have to turn about, with consequent
loss of time; there is'no danger from
strong winds or gales; it develops
five times the power derived from usual
forms of windmills; there is practical-
ly no upkeep or operating expense.
The builder says that he is ready to
undertake the building of such wind-
mills in all capacities from one-half to
100 horse power and over. The wind-
mill is recommended to be run in con-
nection with an electric generator and
storage battery, so that, when the
wind is blowing, electrical energy is |
stored up for use during the calm
weather. However, it is estimated
that the windmill can operate in prac-
tically any weather. and but very few
idle days are encountered throughout
the year. writes Hereward Carrington
in Leslie's,
of the greatest practical value to many
farmers and those desirous of obtain-
ing power cheaply and easily.
PROOF OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP
What More Could Be Asked of Any
Man Than the Sacrifice That
Is Here Recorded?
There are various ways Of evidenc-
fng true friendship. Sorrow and suf-
fering bring out the best in others, but
it is our habit to be sympathetic and
not always does it prove that sympa- |
thy and friendship are akin. When a
man will lend you money without col- !
lateral he is indeed a friend.
But we find our true friends in oth-
er ways. The other day we were in a
hurry and we needed a hair cut. So
we beat it into our favorite barber
shop to find our favorite barber busy,
and a man ahead of us.
We were about to depart without the
trim we sorely needed, when the man
ahead of us spoke up:
“You always have the same barber,
don't you?”
“Yep,” we replied.
“Well,
I''m in no hurry.
and take my turn. I'll wait.”
There was friendship for you, and as |
we thanked him for his kindness we
couldn't help remarking:
“Greater
this, that he will give up his place in a
barber shop for another.,”—Exchange. |
Attention, Diogenes.
Diogenes, wake up!
Here's your honest man!
Right here in Houston. recently, a
man entered the consolidated railway
ticket office and purchased a ticket for
a child more than five years old. Then
he promptly tore the ticket up.
It developed that a woman, accom-
panied by a child, departed from Hous-
ton within the last rew days for a city
more than 1,000 miles away. but did
not obtain transportation for the child.
When the ticket was bought the pur-
chaser was asked when the party was
going. He replied. “They have already
| zone.”
Then it developed that the man, con-
<cience-stricken at the thought of
cheating the railroads out of the cost
of a child’s ticket, decided to fellow the
old adage. “Better late than never.”—
Houston Post.
Unconventional.
An old woman from Sullivan county
came to a recent convention held at
Indianapolis. Now. never before had
she attended a convention, and she
had very strange
tions—such as to thinking that they
were made up of banquets, parties,
etc. But this one was just a line of
lectures, lectures. lectures. And the
old lady did not like it at all.
At the close of the last day she went
back to her hotel, weary, disappointed
and hungry. She saw another dele-
gate and began to talk to her of the
week’s lectures. “No, indeed, I have
not liked this,” she said emphatically,
“and more than that, T know I shall
never be a conventional woman,”—
Indianapolis News.
Meaning of “Call,” a Market Term.
A “call,” in market parlance is a con-
tract giving the purchaser the option
to buy a commodity or security at a
fixed price, within a fixed time. It is
used in speculation in grain, cotton,
stocks and foreign exchange. When
German marks, for example, are sell-
ing for 1.6 cents, a broker will sell for
$85 the privilege of buying 25,000
marks, within nine months, at 5.6
cents each. If the price within that
period goes above 5.6 cents, the holder
of the call can purchase at that price
and sell at the prevailing market
price, and have the difference as a
profit. If the price does not reach the
quotation named in the “call,” the
money spent for it is lost.
An Effort at Logic.
“You say you want equal opportu-
nity for everybody?” sald the man who
tries to be fair.
“1 do,” answered the anarchist.
“And you are protesting against in-
Justice?”
Ll ¢ am.”
“Then why don’t you give the inno-
cent bystander a chance for his life
when you plant 8 bomb?”
This windmill may prove !
I'm next for his chair, but
You just go ahead
love hath no man than |
ideas of conven- |
Highways of Durable Types.
Second only in importance to the
size of the present road-building pro-
gram is the excellence of the charac-
ter of the roads being built. Sixty
per cent. of the total allotment of fed-
eral funds which has been approved
to date will be spent for roads of such
durable types as bituminous concrete,
Portland cement concrete, and vitri-
| fied brick. These roads, when built,
| will increase by 7,600 miles the total
of 14,000 miles of roads of this class
| which existed in the United States be-
| fore the Federal-aid road law was
‘passed. But these figures by no
! means represent the total mileage af-
, fected.
i In 1915 the total expenditure for
| roads and bridges by all the States
i and local governments was $267,000,-
| 000, while last year the estimated
funds available for main road con-
{ struction are nearly three times that |
| amount, or $633,000,000. In all fed-
| eral funds to the amount of $266,750,-
i 000 have been apportioned among 48
i States without a suggestion of favor-
itism—so adequate are the provisions
| for a just apportionment.
————A ee ene.
Uncle Joe Has Plenty of Pep.
Here are two more about Uncle Joe
‘Cannon, Member of Congress from
| linois, 85 years old and chipper as a
i youth, writes Gus J. Karger in the
i Cincinnati Times-Star.
You know that he broke his arm last
‘fall. Everything has come along all
right except that the fingers of one
hand remain somewhat awkward. Un-
cle Joe wouldn’t at this time make a
good pickpocket or piang player. “I
don’t mind it very much,” Uncle Joe
said to his secretary, “save for one
reason. It interferes with my shuf-
fling with cards.”
He was still carrying his sore hand
in the lapel of his coat for protection
when, on a visit to Chicago, an en-
thusiastic friend pulled it out of its
refuge and gave it a hearty shake.
Uncle Joe, wincing, struck out with
his able left hand and landed on the
other’s lamp. Whereupon, throwing
his hat in the air, the assaulted party
gave voice. “Three cheers for Uncle
Joe,” he shouted. “He hasn’t lost his
pep.” And then Uncle Joe apologiz-
ed for losing his temper.
—Cheer up, ice men. We have a
blizzard scheduled for the middle of
February.
USED BY MILLIONS
BULGARIAN BLOOD TEA
vake It Steaming Hot To Kill Colds
and_Ward Off influenza, Grippe
and Pneumonia.
This Pure Herb Tea has rare medi:
inal power to sweeten the stomach,
egulate the bowels, cleanse the liver,
ush the poison-clogged kidneys, and
nrich the weak, polluted blood. It
© the greatest First-Aid Home Medi
ne in the world. Sold by all drug
sts or grocers. i
Mince Meat just ready to Bake
Candy - - Pop Corn
Oranges New Nuts
Cranberries Sechler & ( Grape Fruit
Sweet Potatoes Walnuts
New Evaporated Brazil
Peaches ® Almonds
Apricots 9 Filberts
Prunes Italian Chestnuts
Seeded and
Seedless Raisins
Fine Groceries
for the
Figs
Dates
Malaga Grapes Buying Public Olives
Tangerines Lemons
Cluster Raisins - Maple Syrup
Delicious Coffee
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Safety First
We have added to the protection we offer
depositors by the installation of a bur-
glar alarm system, which is now in operation.
We feel that this system, in addition to the
modern vault door put in recently, gives us
the assurance of safety. We make no charge
for the care of securities and papers left with
us for safe keeping.
The First National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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ts of Good Taste
eH
There are so many things in this store,
so many interesting, unusual articles,
specially appropriate for gift-giv-
ing, that we feel sure you will find here
gift that really fits.”
64-22-tf
that object of your constant search, “the
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
Remember, your pick of any Overcoat
Sale Positively Ends January 22
Don’t, Overlook
Our Wonderful
Overcoat, Sale
in the store,
regardless of former price, for
-..$25.00....
Don’t let this Big Money-Saving
Opportunity slip
A. FAUBLE
Handling Your Funds.
A Business Manager who disburses
funds at your direction, a secretary
who keeps your accounts, a sleepless
sentinel guarding your funds, a car-
rier who delivers to all corners of the
country—all these and many other of-
fices are performed by the bank.
_ Money which you wish to send with-
in this city or to distant points is con-
veyed by your check simply, safely
and cheaply.
The checking account is only one of
the many mediums through which this
bank serves its customers. There are
many other ways in which we can be
helpful to you and it would be our
pleasure to serve you in any or all of
em.
CENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO
60-4 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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