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KING UNHONORED AND UNSUNG al EERE Se Fires DF PECULIAR. ORIN
It is no longer a theory, but a proven
! fact, that certain colors produce cer- Many Disastrous Conflagrations Have
Been the Result of Incidents of
! tain desirable or extremely disastrous
| effects, even upon the ordinarily sen- SH
| sitive mind. Psychologists, eminent Most Trivial Character.
physicians, and skilled decorators are :
| making a keen study of this subject, | There have been a number of cases
and each year discloses some new lately of women’s frocks catching fire
and valuable truth without any obvious cause. The mis-
d . ; ,
For a long time we have known that chief has now been traced to an “art
blue and violet were employed suc- |SUK which is really material pre-
pared during the war for the manu-
facture of cartridges.
cessfully in treating nervous cases;
and so soothing indeed is blue that,
when used in a whole room scheme— | Fires are started in all sorts of odd
walls, curtains, rugs—it acts as a par- | Ways. A man had Just taken his
tial anesthesia upon extremely sensi- seat at dinner when his dress jacket
tive natures, sufficient for dental pur- | burst into flames. The solution was
poses or the carrying out of minor op- found in the fact that a potash throat
erations. lozenge, loose in his pocket, had be-
Red develops the action of the |come ignited by pressure against the
muscles as much as 50 per cent and | side of a safety match box.
A few years ago a rounded window
in a chemist’s shop at Scarborough
is often employed in the medicinal
world where stimulating results are
focused the rays of the sun so that
they set fire to a celluloid box, while
desired, as in the treatment of small- |
a fly was responsible for the destruc-
pox, melancholia and certain forms of
anemia. Red, therefore, is not a good
tion of a large house at Westport, in
New Zealand. The insect flew into
color to choose when decorating the
room of a “teenage” child, for, aside
a gas jet, and, escaping with its wings
ablaze, blundered into a muslin cur-
Milan of Serbia Probably the Greatest
Profligate of Which There Is
Record.
Bewonaiic Wada
"Bellefonte, Pa., February 4, 1921.
More than one king has died in pov-
erty and some have died in disgrace,
but it remained for King Milan of
Serbia to die without a throne, with-
out a country, without a dollar and
without a friend, hated by his coun-
trymen, laughed at by all who met
him, and despised by his own son
and wife. He was born in 1854, and
in 1868 we find him in Paris, a blase
roue of fourteen, who got drunk,
smoked cigars, associated with
gamblers, street women and thieves,
and already an avowed atheist and
hater of virtue and decency. The
death of his second cousin, Michael
IV, put him on the throne. He mar-
ried a beautiful girl of sixteen, who
loved him and who bore him a son.
All went well until she caught
him making love to a middle-aged
Austrian spy woman in a royal for-
est, After that he bared the cloven
hoof, choked and insulted the queen,
hated his son and began a career of
ON GUARD AGAINST FORGERS
Men of Money Devise Secret Signs
Which Inform Bank Cashiers That
Checks Are Genuine.
So clever is the modern forger that
the man who relies on a signature
which is hard to copy is liable at any
moment to find himself victimized and
his account depleted.
In order to prevent the successful
uttering of a forged check, several
men have hit upon devices which even
the smartest criminal could hardly de-
tect.
For instance; there is an American
millionaire who makes a tiny blot on
some part of the check as a sign to
the bank cashier that it is genuine. Not
one forger in a thousand would at-
tribute a blot to anything but care-
lessness, and quite a number of would-
be swindlers have found themselves
Lowest Price
on Everything
that, Man or Boy
from its hot and heavy suggestion in
summer, it overstimulates the already
Wears
: y i drunkenness and wickedness that | restless nature of the growing buy | tain which at once burst into flames.
lled up sharply on preseniing an ; 3 3 .
DE Sy counter. disgusted his subjects. He was | or girl.—Good Housekeeping. Birds have been responsible for
Another man has hit upon the idea forced to abdicate, and although Se—o————————— more than one conflagration. At
of apparently making a mistake in later his son, then king, brought Rich Agricultural Land. Coverack, in Cornwall, a chimney in
the date in the right-hand top cor-
ner of the check, which mistake is
rectified by the crossing out of the
wrong numeral and the substitution
of the correct one. The check forger
would hardly regard such an appar-
ent blunder as the result of deliberate
intention.
A Frenchman with whom this sub-
ject was discussed stated that his own
method is an almost infallible one.
Whenever he writes a check, he takes
the precaution of tearing it out of his
check book in such a manner that a
tiny shred of the counterfoil remains
attached to the draft, This is an in-
timation to the bank that the check
is genuine,
Perhaps, however, the most extraor-
dinary device is that adopted by a
wary Hebrew. He makes a point of
carefully perfuming every check bear-
ing his signature with a certain scent
which is very difficult to obtain.
Johnson’s Tour of 1866.
Johnson's “Swing ‘round the Circle”
was an expression frequently to be met
with in the fall of 1866, and was ap-
plied to a speech-making tour made
by President Johnson about that time.
‘President Johnson left Washington
‘August 28, 1866, in compliance with
a request that he would lay the corner-
stone of: a monument to be erected
to ‘Stephen A. Douglas, in Chicago,
September 6. He was attended by a
distinguished party, including several
members of his cabinet. General Grant
and Admiral Farragut also were in |
the party. The route was by way of
Philadelphia, New York and Albany, |
In one of his speeches the president
referred to himself as one having
“swung around the entire circle” of
public service, from alderman to presi-
dent. The phrase “took” with news-
paper reporters, and so came to be
generally applied to his tour. John-
son's welcome was mixed, for pas-
him back as commander in chief of
the Serbian army, he returned this
favor by attempting to kill his own
child. He was ordered out of the
country, and ended up as a hanger-
on of low saloons and dives in Vien-
na, scorned even by the waiters and
coarse women that frequented the
places. 3
FIRST HOUSE PILGRIMS BUILT
Plymouth Venerates Site of Structure
Where Settlers Modeled Civil
Form of Government.
Until they have gazed upon the
Rock, visitors to Plymouth town de-
cline, as a rule, to see anything else.
Having performed that duty, they
usually stroll or spin up Leyden street,
which extends from a point con-
veniently near the Rock, to the fcot
of Burial hill, where the Pilgrim fort
and watch tower used to frown down
upon the Indians. Leyden street is
New England’s oldest thoroughfare.
Once it was called, quite aptly, First
Street.
On one’s way up Leyden street one
must stop to look at the site of the:
first house which the Mayflower pas-
sengers erected in the wilderness. In
this structure the settlers had their
fling at the purest form of democracy. !
Here, modeling their civil govern-
ment upon the compact which had
been drawn up in the cabin of the
Mayflower while she was anchored
in the harbor of Cape Cod, they dis-
cussed laws for their guidance, and
elected Myles Standish, by majority
vote, captain of the Plymouth home
guard.
A True Philosopher.
A retired sea captain, who lived in
Orland, Me., was inordinately fond of
his garden and very proud of its neat
meat.
valuable
world.
three crops a year.
much as $1,500 or $2,000 an acre. His
cotton sold last year for $200 a kan-
tar of 105 pounds weight.
now are down to a quarter of that.
Banks and corporations and such like
sound financiers are much
over the situation.
But not the fellah.
the good old advice and
year's money into land.
in use for over over 30
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The Egyptian fellah rarely eats
He works with every member
of his family, twelve, fourteen or six-
teen hours a day.
wheat flour.
own from a plant which we would
call a weed. But he works the most
He rarely touches
He makes a flour of Lis
agricultural land in the
Under irrigation it produces
It sells for as
Prices just
worried
He followed
put last
——Get your job work done at this
office and get it right.
a farmhouse took fire. Out of it
fluttered an owl with its feathers
burning. It settled on a hayrick, and
the latter was completely destroyed.
Rain falling on a truck of lime at
Jeccles Station caused a fire which
destroyed the truck and its contents,
and the string of a military kite fall-
ing across overhead tramway wires
and a wooden house caused the de-
struction of the latter.
A strange case occurred in a wood
near Grange over Sands. Red ants
had constructed a huge hill in the
roots of a splendid fir tree. Hot
weather dried the heap, which was
composed of vegetable matter. Then
came warm rain and a return of heat.
Chemical action resulted in spon-
taneous combustion, and the heap ig-
nited, setting fire to the tree and
bringing it to the ground.—London
Tit-Bits.
Bought, and which has been
ars, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
sonal supervision since its infancy.
“Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Countorfeits, Imitations and * Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
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Fauble’s
Near East Relief
During this month Centre county will be
sions ran high in those times. The | and well-kept appearance. One Sun- Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, gr ;
general attitude was, however, cour- | day he returned from church and Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains athed for contylbutions i i Support
teous, and even cordial. In this re- | found five hogs busily engaged in neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its of 14 rinenian OF pians id
spect St. Louis contrasted very favor-
ably with some other large cities.
Cleveland, Chicago and Springfield
had extended to him no official recog-
nition, while at Indianapolis he was
hooted. On the whole, Johnson's tour
did not strengthen his position in the
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tensify the fury of the opposition.—
Kansas City Sta:
Tasmania's Artesian Water.
The dry season experienced in Tas-
mania last summer caused the state
government to examine the county
known as the Midlands for artesian
water, The area
proximately 500 square miles.
investigation has shown that there is
surveyed was ap-
The |
wrecking his garden—the finest in all
Orland.
Leaning on the fence, he looked long
and earnestly at the result of their
depredations, and his wife shed a few
tears. The passing neighbors paused
to look, and many a furtive glance
went to the face of the captain to
see how he was taking it. At last
he heaved a deep sign and put his
hand on his wife's arm.
“Never mind, Polly,” he said. “You
never can lay dirt to suit a hog.”—
Youth's Companion.
Coal Bad Cargo for Ships.
Coal is a bad cargo for ships, for
soft coal heats if stacked deep, and
no artesian water in the Midlands, | frequently is fired by spontaneous
but that there exist definite sub-ar- | combustion. In the open you can
tesian basins from which appreciable
quantities of water of very fair qual-
ity may be drawn. The investigation,
the first of its kind in Tasmania, will
make a valuable asset of the Midlands,
and will furnish data from which val-
uable conclusions can be drawn as to
the conditions affecting irrigation.
Soldiers Make Money on Rats.
Inducements in the way of bounties
are offered to the Irench soldiers to
induce them to hunt the rats which in-
fest the barracks. The bounty takes
the form of money considerations and
an increased allowance of wine. One
man obtained a release from duty for
a few days and spent the nights in
hunting the rodents, and his success
was So great that one man from each
company was assigned to the same
duty and the results of these assaults
was astonishing.
Students Compete With Profiteers.
Charcoal, salmon, codfish and other
eommodities will be sold at several
points in Tokio by students of Waseda
university who have organized to
raise funds for their studies on social
problems and at the same time to cut
into the trade of retail shops which
ask unreasonable prices. The goods
are to be sold at a 40 per cent dis-
count from the ordinary price.~Japan
Advertiser.
Dominant Policy.
“I can't quite decide whether our
distinguished colleague is for protec«
tion or free trade.”
“Ho is still sounding out his cone
stituency,” replied Senator Sorghum.
The only policy on which he is ab
splutely consistent is eelf-preserva-
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stack coal 20 feet deep without fear
of its firing, but under cover not more
than 15 or 16 feet.
The proof of this statement is
shown by the fact that fires in cargoes
of 500-1,000 tons of coal are only 1 per
cent, while in cargoes over 2,00¢ they
are actually nine times as numerous.
When large cargoes are stored for
long voyages, it is usual to bed iron
pipes deep in the holds so as to be able
to notice any dangerous rise of tem-
perature.
The First Curb Market.
The first congress of the United
States, while in session in Federal
hall on Wall street, New York, in
1788-89, authorized and subsequently
issued bonds (then called stock)
amounting to 80 million dollars for the
purpose of discharging debts incurred
by the continental congress and the
various colonies. This naturally led
to orders for the purchase cnd sale
of these bonds being sent te New
York. These orders first came to mer-
chants, attorneys and others, but later,
as the transactions increased, some
men began to give special attention to
this business, becoming the first brok-
ers in America.
Standardization.
“What Crimson Gulch ought to do,”
remarked Cactus Joe, “is to send east
and get a good singin’ teacher,”
“You boys surely have enough to in-
terest you without music.”
“Too much, There's no use of askin’
men not to use thelr voices. Nobody
can make an observation on any sub-
ject of general interest without startin’
a quarrel. What we need is to have
somethin’ on hand that’s cut an’ dried
an’ set to mysic.”
62-47
age is its guarantee.
In Use For Over 30 Years
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
Bears the Signature of
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Letz Feed Mills
Sharples Cream Separators
Sharples Milking Machines
(Electric and Line Machines)
Chicken, Dairy and Horse Feed
Calf Meal
Dubbs’ Implement and Feed Store
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amount required will be $9000.
No cause has made a stronger appeal to our
people, for the pitiable condition of Armenian
children whose fathers and mothers have been
murdered by the Turks and who, without the sup-
port given them through this agency are doomed
to starve, arouses our deepest sympathy. Make
your contribution through your church or socie-
ty or send direct to Chas. M. McCurdy, Treas-
urer, Bellefonte, Pa.
The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
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