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“Bellefonte, Pa., February 18, 1921.
WORLD IS FAR FROM FAMINE
Only One-Third of Its Potential Food-
Producing Area at Present Un-
der Cultivation.
Only one-third of the world’s poten-
tial food-producing area is under cul-
tivation, and the crops raised on that
third, thanks to agricultural science,
increase yearly.
The United States has only some 400
millions « § its 935 million acres of
arable laud under cultivation, yet it
raises, among other things, one-sixth
of the world’s corn supply. The farms
of America raise less that half as
much wheat to the acre as those of
England, yet even with her present
standard size could raise enough corn
to meet the needs of Europe on the
land that is now lying unused.
Russia produces only ten bushels to
the acre of corn, but when science
has access to her untold millions of
acres, and brings their capacity up to
the standard of our own farms, then
she alone will be able to supply the
world's cereal needs, with the excep-
tion of maize and rice.
Less than a third of the world's pop-
ulation gets what we should call three
good meals a day, yet the working ca-
pabilities of the, from our viewpoint,
underfed continents of Asia and Af-
rica will compare very well with either
Europe or America. The average
meat consumption of the world is 39
pounds a head, yet both the Australian
and the American eat nearer 180
pounds per head, and the Englishman
is not far behind with about 120
pounds.
It is evident, then, that we ean tight-
en our belts a hole or two yet with-
out running any undue risk of starva-
tion.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
“CRUCIFiX FISH” 0DD CURIO
Figure of Man on Cross Plainly Re-
vealed on Dried Skeleton of West
Indian Product.
Joseph Reichenbach of 80 Henry
street, has a curiosity in the way of"
a fish which throughout the West In-
dian country is known as the “crucifix
fish,” and is regarded with a mixture
of reverential awe by the natives, who
throw specimens caught in their ets
back into the sea and cros: them-
selves when they come on the skull of
one,
The dried skeleton of this fish shows
plainly on the under side of the skull |
the figure of a man on a crucifix with
a halo about his head.
On the other | (6 yetion is repeated.
side of the skull is a figure of a monk | ¢; (,epation must be performed on
with a cowl bending before an altar. |
Mr. Reichenbach prizes the speci-
men very highly.
little wooden box lite a coffin. Tor-
merly he was barber in the Hotel of
St. George, and one day John L. Sul-
livan, the famous pugilist, happened
in and Joe showed him a specimen of
the odd fish.
pressed, and expressed a wish to have
one like it, so Joe made him a gift
of ‘a duplicate of the fish.
There are other geculiarvities about
this fish skeleton which Joe has. When
it is lifted up and shifted there is a
rattling in the skull like dice rolling.
Those are what are known as the “air
bones.”—Brooklyn Ilagle.
Determining Pcisonous Vapors.
In its efforts to determine the ex-
tent to which the vapors of fires are
actively poisonous, the United States
bureau of mines has sought vacuum-
bottle samples of air from differere
places in burning buildings in 25 cit-
ies. Certain indications have been re-
ported from the contents of such bot-
tles as have been returned. Most
dreaded at fires is carbon monoxide,
but only one sample of air from above
ground showed this gas, the quantity
in that case being too small to harm
when breathed a short time. The air
and smoke in cellars, however, con-
tain considerably more, The ventila-
tion giving good combustion apparent-
Ay disposes of any carbon monoxide -
‘produced, but there may be some ac-
cumulation in close places where ven-
tilation is poor. Air charged with
.dense smoke was quite free from poi-
sonous gas, the effect of such air be-
‘ing mechanical irritation from breath-
‘ing the smoke; and the most poison-
.ous air found was a sample contain-
ing little smoke that was taken from
a poorly ventilated space among cases
in a basement.
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Napoleon's Dessert Service Sold.
A French dessert dish of gilt plate,
double thread and shell pattern, con-
sisting of two sugar sifters, four
spoons, a pair of sugar tongs, 24 small
spoons, 24 forks and knives with por-
celain handles, formerly the property
of Emperor Napoleon, and bearing the
imperial cipher of the bee, was sold
in a London auction house not long
ago. The service was the property of
‘a nobleman whose name Is not re-
vealed.—London Times.
Wood Preservatives.
Wood preservatives are found by
the United States forest products lab-
oratory to be necessarily soluble
enough in water to produce a toxic so-
lution, though in some cases the solp-
bility may be as slight as one-mil-
lonth. Sodium fluoride and zinc
chioride are freely soluble, the ereo-
sotes rs © whole only speringly so.
The ncatoxic oils appear to act as res-
ervoirs of the toxic Ingredients, and
to feed them. out slowly to the wood.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
He keeps it in a |
Sullivan was deeply im- | ;
{ gin of the name of Sni-a-Bar creek.
IT WITH FLOWERS
Pretty Japanese Custom That Is Re-
garded as inseparable From the
Period of Courtship.
DATING
The Japanese courting is as apt
to start in a flower message as any
other way, the lovelorn swain indi-
cating his passion by tossing a pale
olum blow into the litter as the ob-
ject of his regard is carried by him.
If she tosses it out his suit is reject-
ed, but if she fastens it at her kimono
girdle the affair may go forward. An-
other method is for the lover to slip
up to his loved one's door at mid-
night and fasten a spray of blooming
celastrus alatus above the door. The
next morning he walks by the house.
If the spray is still there, all is over.
But if it has been taken in, or if it
has heen watered, he knows the maid
is his.
The actual terms of the marriage
settlement are carried on by a go-be-
tween, always a man, we are told.
A “complimentary present” is then
sent, and if it is accepted the
bride and
ceremony. The groom then sends her
sixty prescribed gifts that include silk
of a certain length and folded in a
certain way; garments, silken bags
of rice and sweetmeats, and barrels
of wine. The latter the bride, as a
rule, presents to her parents, and the
contents are drunk in cups little larg-
er than a thimble. The groom also
sends a long piece of white silk for
the wedding garment, and a piece of
very fine gold embroidery to be used
as a marringe girdle. The wedding
day is often picked by a soothsayer,
and there are scores of days that are |
prohibited.
SEVERE ORDEAL FOR BRIDE
Afghan “Beauty Treatment” Torture
to Which All Girls Approaching
Matrimony Must Submit.
The girl bride in Afghanistan is
subjected to a very severe beauty
treatment. Some elderly ladies mas-
sage her face, wash her hair and
anoint it with oil and perfume. Then
comes the tarr zaddani or removal of
the superfluous hairs of the face. The
phrase, composed of two Persian
words—tarr, meaning string, and zad-
dani, meaning beating—is highly ex-
pressive of the act.
A thin silken string is held close to
the skin hy one of the bride's attend-
ants: a second attendant pulls the
thread out and giving it a spin with
her index finger and thumb, lets it go.
Ax it strikes the skin and springs
hack, it pulls out the hair, Ikbal Ali
Shah writes in Asia Magazine, The
position of the string is changed and
This very pain-
every bride, whether she has hairs on
hier fuce or not. When the ordeal is
over, the tortured face is washed with
warm water, without soap, and well
powdered.
Origin of the Name “Sni-a-Bar.”
This story is told regarding the ori-
The story runs that in an early day a
Frenchman named Abar was ascending
the Missouri river in a Canadian boat.
Just below the nresent site of the
town of Wellington he came to the
mouth of a little river or creek.
“See now, my children; here we
have a sni, placed by the good God
for our Lacks’ relief,” he said. *A
little breathing space, a quiet time,
a resting from the river. Ah, the
dear sni!”
Sni is French for slough. Abar fan-
ciod hie had struck a quiet loop of
hackwater which would lead him again
to the river in a mile or two. But in
a mile it became apparent that it was
no slough, but a small stream. And
<0 the boat was turned and poled back
the Missouri. [From this circum:
stance the creek was called Sni-a-Bar,
‘rom the word “sni” and the name of
the I‘renchman, Abar.
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Lamps of Greeks and Romans.
From the stage of hand-modeling
nnd sun-baking, the evolution of the
lamp proceeds to the Greeks and Ro-
mans, who devoted a large share of
their attention to the art of lamp-
making. Each Roman or Greek lamp-
maker sirove to achieve some new
triumph in the art. Just as rare paint-
ings bear the signatures of their paint-
(rs, lamps of the early Greeks and
Itomans bear the inscribed names of
their makers.
pale, flickering uncertain light, the
ancient Greek and Roman lamp was
a very costly object, its valuation
ascending according to its artistie
beauty. So obsessed were they with
the beauty of the vessel that little, if
any, consideration was given the ef-
ficiency of the light produced by the
lamp.
Commodore Preble’s Temper.
The hasty temper of that early hero
of the United States navy, Commo-
dore Preble, says a writer in the Bos-
+ ton Herald, furnishes the basis for an
amusing story that pecple of the older
ceneraltion used to enjoy telling.
The old sea fighter, it seems, was a
testy chap. One afternoon his wife
was entertaining several lady callers
ai their Portland home. Just as they
were going out they heard a tremen-
dous racket on the floor above, and
down the front stairs came crashing a
large ard very solid table. It badly
frightened the callers, who were lin-
gering in the hall for a parting word.
“Why, Commodore Preble!” cried
his wife, “what are you doing?” :
“hat, Mrs. Preble,” roared the
commodore, “is my blasted temper!”
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her entire family are in
honor bound to go forward with the
Irrespective of their
REFUSED TO TAKE CHANCES
Fortune Teller’'s Prediction Caused
Crews of Two Vesrels to Desert
the Boats at Quebec.
From time immemorial superstitions
of sailors, with few exceptions, have
paturally been associated with things
of the sea, notably the belief which
marks departure from port on Friday
as a certain omen of bad luck. St.
Elmo’s fire, the bo’sun fish, whistling
for the wind in a calm, the presence
i of a priest om board ship, all these
| deal with actual elements of sea life
that played a great part among such
legends. The Flying Dutchman legend
was also born of the sea; likewise the
ghostly crew coming from the wreck
of a sunken ship to haunt the crew of
the vessel which caused their loss.
A more annoying variety of super-
stition was revealed the other day by
the action of the crews of two Amer-
ican tugs who deserted their boats at
Quebec. Before these two boats left
teller predicted the doom of one of
the boats before it finished its voy-
age. This prophecy so worked on the
sensibilities of the members of the two
{| crews that they struck on reaching
Quebec. Old salts might sniff at such
a prophecy as this as being of the
fresh-water hrand and not worthy fo
be enrolled in the ancient and honor-
able company of deep-sea superstitions,
but the prophecy worked its evil upon
the tug owners. The loss of their
crews made a real thing of it.
ALUMINUM TO REPLACE WOOD
Increased Production of the Metal
Will Relieve Drain Upon the Coun-
try’s Vanishing Forests.
One of the greatest consumers of
wood is the shipping box. For this
purpose no fewer than 6,000,000 cords
were used last year. Viewed from
any standpoint, it is a gigantic draft
upon our forest resources.
Unquestionably before long metal
will largely take the place of wood for
the making of shipping cases. Which
means, of course, aluminum, or an al-
Detroit bound for New York a fortune | ing sawmills.
0y wereof. Aluminum, relatively
speaking, is a cheap metal now, but it
is destined to be vastly cheaper.
When one considers that aluminum
constitutes more than 7 per cent of the
entire crust of the earth, it seems ab-
surd that there should be lack of it for
any and all purposes useful to man-
kind.
The next generation may live in
apartment houses built wholly of alu-
minum and travel in aluminum trains
and steamships. But the matter of
most immediate importance is the re-
lief which cheap aluminum may give
to the drain upon our vanishing for-
ests.
Canada Admits Hindoo Woman.
The first Hindoo woman and the
first Hindoo boy who ever entered
Vancouver or British Columbia, Can-
ada, to make the province their home,
arrived recently on the Empress of
Japan. There are thousands of Hin-
doos living in the province, engaged
in working in the woods or in operat-
Some of them have
made much money. For a long time
the government refused admission to
Hindoo women, but recently this ban
was lifted. The new arrival was the
first woman to take advantage of it.
Her husband went to India from Van-
couver three years ago, to pay a visit
to his home. He had made money
and intended to remain in India, but
when the ban on women was lifted he
decided to return where opportunities
were greater. He brought his wife
and twelve-year-old son. The father
intends to send the boy to the public
schools of Vancouver.
Wo...cn’s Hair Price Increases.
The price given by hairdressers for
wentenl's hair has increased enormous
Iv during the last 12 months. Whiie
some women in America and Britain
sell their hair, the real trade in this
commodity is done in Continental
countries. Peasant girls in France,
Belgium and Italy sell their hair at
regular periods to dealers. This hair
fs mostly of the fair and biack vari-
ety, while most golden hair is ob-
tained from Scandinavians.
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funds at your direction, a seeretary
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
them.
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Style experts design our models, and
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Sharples Cream Separators
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SPECIAL SIX
SERIES 20:
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Power Durability True Value
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LIGHT BIX..c.civcersecssesessess 1485.00
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seeesss $2250.00
North Water St. 4 BELLEFONTE
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