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Denorvalic Wald
“Bellefonte, Pa., February 25, 1921.
GOETHE HERO OF ROMANCE
Minor Love Affair That Figured in the
Life of Germany's Most Famous
Man of Letters.
Goethe, famous man of letters, once
foved a pretty little wife of a middle-
aged merchant, Peter Anton Brentano,
who sold cheese and herrings.
Goethe, always careless of custom
and tradition, went often to the Bren-
tano home. It did not take him long
to discover that the lovely Maximili-
ane was extremely unhappy, and he
did what he could to make her smile.
He romped with her step-children, and
he played a bass viol at family con-
certs.
Both were younger than Brentano,
and both were palpably bored by
his merchant friends and their talk
of sales and profits.
At first Brentano was delighted to
have Goethe come to the house.
His visits made Maximiliane happy,
and that pleased the husband, who
had grieved when he saw his wife
smile so seldom. But he grew suspi-
cious. He counseled Maximiliane
to see Goethe less often, and there
were violent scenes in the house-
hold. Goethe sided with the young
wife, and continued to call frequent-
ly. Brentano could not conceal his
wrath and his flaming jealousy. He
upbraided thém, and there were
“terrible moments.” Goethe finally
rushed away in anger from the
house, determined never to be em-
broiled in such quarrels again. He
plunged into the writing of “Wer-
ther,” and Maximiliane passed out of
his life.
BIRD THAT LOCKS ITS NEST
Central American Wren Takes Par-
ticular Care That Its Eggs Shall
Not Be Harmed.
In Central America are many
strange birds with stranger habits, but
probably none is more interesting than
a little brown wren which may be
seen along the roadsides or on fences.
This little bird, about the size of a
canary, builds a nest out of all pro-
portion to its apparent needs. He se-
lects a small tree with horizontal
branches growing close together.
Across two of the branches he lays
sticks fastened together with tough
fiber until a platform about six feet
fong by two feet wide is constructed.
On the end of this platform nearest
the tree trunk he then builds a huge
dome-shaped nest a foot or so high,
.with thick sides of interwoven thorns.
‘A: covered passageway is then made
from the nest to the end of the plat-
form in as crooked a manner as pos-
sible. Across the outer end as well as
at short intervals along the inside of
this tunnel are placed cunning little
fences of thorns, with just enough
space for the owners to pass through.
On going out this opening is closed
‘by the owner by placing thorns across
the gateway, and thus the safety of
eggs or young is assured.
Use for Fire-Killed Timber.
. Prejudice exists in certain quarters
‘against the use of timber cut from
dead trees, and some purchase speci-
fications insist that only timber cut
from live trees will be acceptable. As
a matter of fact when sound dead trees
are sawed into lumber and the weath-
ered or charred outside is cut away,
there is no method known to the Unit-
ed States forest products laboratory
by which the lumber can be distin-
guished from that cut from live trees,
‘except that the lumber from dead trees
may be partly seasoned when sawed.
All the information av ‘lable at the
laboratory indicates that timber cut
from insect or fire-killed trees is just
as good for any structural purpose as
that cut from live trees of similar
quality, providing the wood has not
been’, subsequently injured by decay
or further insect attack.
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Ben Franklin, Reformer.
Like many of us today, Franklin
was no churchgoer, but firmly be-
lieved in the desirability of other peo-
.ple’s attendance, at public worship.
, In the goodness of his heart, however,
he was desirous of making the Church
of England's morning service less
onerous to the faithful. So, while
representing the Colonies in England,
he proceeded to abridge the Book of
"Common Prayer! He was assisted in
the task by an English crony, the once
notorious Lord De Spencer.
* The whole episode reminds us of
the day when, as a small boy, he sug-
gested to his astonished parent that
much time and trouble might be saved
if grace were said over the whole
family pork-barrel at once.—Asa Don
Dickinson in the New York Times.
Biblical Error.
The following gem was sent to the
London Morning Post by a corre-
spondent, who says he had found it in
a private letter written by Charles
Dickens: “The story is about a little
boy to whom the news had been bro-
ken by his mother, that he was to have
a French governess. Dickens tells it
thus: ‘After leaning his plump little
cheek against the window glass in a
dreary little way for some minutes, he
looked around and inquired in a gen-
eral way. and not as if it had any spe-
cial application, whether she didn't
think “that ‘the tower of. Babel was a
great mistake altogether.”'”
Brain Is Frequently at Best During the
Still, Quiet Hours of the Dark-
ness.
Many writers sleep with pencil and
notebook under their pillows and a
lamp at hand, so that they may dash
off the thoughts that come to them
in the watches of the night. There
is about these thoughts a clarity that
does not come with daytime thinking
—a sureness of vision that approaches
the clairvoyant. Misfortunes never
loom so full or realistic as after mid-
night; but joy and pleasure lose some-
thing of their glamor, their evidence;
doubt creeps in with them.
A problem which we have wrestled
in the daylight, weighing it with all
our intelligence, is settled in a certain
way, calmly and judiciously and after
mature reflection. Our decision seems
the right one. And then, suddenly, in
the dead of the night, that self-same
issue bobs up before our mental vi-
sion, wakes us from a sound sleep and.
settles itself in quite another way, in |
one great flash. A strong white light |
has been turned upon the brain and
has revealed there a conclusion of
which we had no inkling before. The
processes of arriving at it are a closed
chapter. The clairvoyant brain has
registered a result only. And again and
again it will be found to be the right,
thie expedient solution.
Memory, too, is peculiarly keen in |
the silences between midnight and four
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in the morning. All the cobweps have |
been swept from the brain by the first
hours of sleep; the body and nerve
centers are singularly rested; there
are no noises to disturb and some sub-
conscious power is at work within us. |
THAT LUCKY RABBITS FOOT
Must Be Procured Only Under Certain
Circumstances if the Charm |
Is to Have Power.
You have undoubtedly heard about
wearing a rabbit's foot for luck. Do
you know what is the significance of
it, where it is to be carried, and why
it is lucky? Well, here it is:
“The rabbit’s foot is esteemed a
powerful talisman to bring good for-
tune to the wearer and protect him
from all dangers,” says an authority.
“As this belief is more or less common
throughout the South it may be well
to state how the charm is prepared.
for the benefit of those who wish to |
be put on the royal road to health.
wealth and prosperity.
“It must be the left hind foot of a
graveyard rabbit, and that is one
caught in a graveyard, although one
captured under the gallows would
probably answer as well. It must be
taken at the midnight hour and the
foot amputated.
hollow stump in which water has col- |
lected from recent rains. The foot is
then dipped three times into this wa
ter and the charm is complete.
“Among the negroes and unedu-
cated whites of the South the reputed
possessor of. this potent talisman is at
once feared and respected.”
Silk Cultivation in China. - i
That the secret of the silkworm was |
jealously guarded is well known, and
a tradition is told of a Chinese prin-
“perform the proper rites in ‘his behalf
cess who tried to import the insects
into the country whither she was Zo-
ing. Certainly it seems probable that
silk making was known as long ago
as 2800 B. C., when Emperor Chin
Nong, to whom is ascribed the inven- |
tion of the plow, is said to have bhe- '
gun the planting of mulberry trees, |
and his successor, Hoan-ti, intrusted
to his wife the investigation into the
rearing of the silkworms, in the year
2602 B. C. Certainly her work was suc- |
cessful, and her name to this day is
held in high honor, an encouragement
to those who, like Lui Tsu Si Ling Chi, |
devote their time to the care of any
form of investigation work.
Inheritance of Insanity.
According to Doctor Kener, director
of ‘a large lunatic asylum in Rou-
mania, insanity, when transmitted, oc-
curs at an earlier age in each suc-
cessive generation. Of 250 pairs of |
parents, reports the Journal of the
American Medical Association, and off-
spring, 39 per cent of the offspring
were found to have had their first at- |
tack of insanity before the age of
twenty-five, a considerable portion be- '
ing congenital imbeciles. Mothers
transmitted much more frequently than
fathers, and daughters are affected
more often than sons; also the off-
spring are affected at about half the
age of the parent, being in most in- :
stances either congenital imbeciles or
cases of adolescent insanity.
The World in Stone.
At Swanage in England is a conven-
tional representation
conventional, that is,
not in other respects,
hewn from rock, and measures 11 feet
in diameter, and weighs 40 tons.
The history of this unique
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of the globe— |
in design, but |
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geo- |
graphical record is interesting, for it |
is the result of the successful building
operations of two local men who mi- |
grated to London, and amassed huge |
fortunes, then returned to their na- |
tive town and lavished decorations in,
stone on every available part of Sw an-, !
age. |
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He Explains. i
“What was that pretty woman say
ing to you, huh?”
“She was telling me that she voted;
for me, my dear. Nothing more.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The foot must then |
he carried secretly in the pocket until |,
“by chance the owner happens upon a
, of court.
‘with festivities that lasted a week and
| his release by paying his brother $50,-
"and took her with him.
' gatory after death,
| come in contact
| draughts,
. be kept moist.
for the globe is
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| CLARITY IN NIGHT THOUGHTS | "WOMAN BEGAN LONG DISPUTE
Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Had |
Its Origin in Book Published by
American Author.
The long-drawn-out controversy over
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the authorship of the Shakespearean |
plays had its origin in a remrakable
book written by an American woman,
Delia Bacon, a native of Tallmadge,
O., with a preface written by her
friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was
a woman of intense application and
capacity for esoteric study and her
book was the product of a lifetime
spent in the feverish pursuit of her
hobby.
Philosophy of the Plays of Shake-
speare Unfolded,” copies of which are
now rare, as it has long been out of
print.
The book is written in a very labori-
ous style, difficult to read. Some of
the sentences are three to four hun-
dred words long, but the entire work
shows evidences of intense study of
the works of the poet and a masterly
knowledge of the history of Shake-
speare’s period.
The intense obsession with
she pursued her theories brought her
life to a tragic end.
vinced that Shakespeare's secret was
Her book was entitled “The ;
| impreguiable
¥ Cranean vitality and emerges ‘o
whieh | MH ality and emerges upon tl
Becoming con- |
hidden in his tomb at Stratford, she .
went to reside there to confirm her re- |
searches. She was found one
night at the tomb, muttering incoher-
ently, and evidently making prepara-
tions to open the tomb in search of
of the poet, beneath the cryptic in-
seription, “Good friend, for Jesus’
sake forbear to dig the bones inclosed
here.” She was removed to an asylum.
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CR
iNGALLS’ TRIBUTE TO GRASS
Beautiful Word Painting of Kans:
Statesman That Is Reco in
as a Classic.
Lying in the sunshine among the
buttercups and dandeiions of May,
scarcely higher in intelligence than the
minute fenants of that mimic wilder-
ness, our earliest recollections are of
grass; and when the fitful! fever is
ended and the foolish wrangle of the
market and forum is closed, grass
heals over the scar which our descent
into the bosom of the earth has made,
and the carpet of the infant hecomes
the blanket of the dead. Grass is the
forgiveness of Nature—her constant
benediction. Fields trampied with
battle, saturated with blood, torn with
the ruts of cannon, grow green again
with grass, and carnage is forgotten,
Streets abandoned by traffic become
grass-grown like rural lanes and are
obliterated. Forests decay, harvests
perish, flowers vanish, but grass is im-
mortal. Beleaguered by the sullen
hosts of winter, it withdraws into the
fortress of its subter-
irst solicitation of spring. Sown hy
the winds, by the wandering birds.
propagated by the subtle agricuimmere
of the elements which are its minis.
rers and servants, it softens the rude
outline of the world. It bears no hla
of bloom to charm the
fragrance or splendor,
Senses
but irs
* homely hue is more enhancing than the
DAZZLED OLD LONDON TOWN
Becky Wells, Beautiful Madcap, Well-
Known Character During the
Reign of George Ill.
Becky Wells, beautiful English act-
ress, journalist and author, was born
in 1759, married at eighteen, and a
few months later saw her husband de-
sert her for her bridesmaid. She
went to London and won success by
her beauty when she went on the
stage. She took up with Edward Top-
ham, an eccentric, and they estab-
lished a newspaper that thrived on
scandal, :
Becky took to wearing furs in sum-
mer and muslins in winter, which per- i
haps stamps her as a woman in ad-
vance of her age. She hired hackney
coaches to drive her to Oxford or
Cambridge for her health, and her
vagaries were the talk of the town.
She imagined that she was irresisti-
ble and took it into her head to in-
fatuate George III, the dull king
whose only redeeming virtue was his
apparent faithfulness to his wife. She
was thrown into jail by her creditors,
and there she infatuated a Moor, son
of the prime minister of Morocco, who,
had been sent to prison for contempt
They were wedded in jail
which cost the bridegroom $2,500. Her
husband, Joseph Sumbel, then secured
000 and he also paid Becky's, creditors
Tricking Fate, : ;
Every Hindoo must have a son to
so that he may be released from pur-
says Asia Maga-
zine. Especially cursed, therefore, is
he whose fate it is to be sonless. One
such, a Brahmin, propitiated. the god
Vishu and obtained a boon. He asked
for a son, but, since a son was not in
the man’s fate, 'Vishu refused. Twice
this happened, but the third time the
i. Brahmin asked that his merriments
might be shared by gods and men
alike. This "was granted. He then
went home, locked his door and, with
his wife, began to sing and dance.
| Thereupon, all the gods and men, by
the terms of the boon, were compelled
“to sing and dance with him, and the
business of the universe was brought
to a standstill. “Stop,” begged the
gods. “Only when you grant me a
son,” answered the Brahmin. And he
had his way.
Plant Care.
The room in which palms and gera-
: niums are kept should not be allowed
to get cooler than 40 or 45 degrees.
. The palm should be placed in a part-
ly shaded spot, but never where it may
with gas or cold
It should never be placed
in the direct rays of the sun. The
leaves should occasionally be sponged
with fishoil soap and warm water. It
should not be too well watered, and
perfect drainage is necessary to suc-
cessful culture. The geranium requires
plenty of sunlight and its roots should
It should be sprayed
with tepid water occasionally to keep
! the foliage bright and green and pre-
vent dust from lodging on the leaves.
Seeking a Paragon.
“Here's an advertisement for a
wife.”
“She must be young, rich and beau-
tiful, I suppose?”
“No, but the requirements are al-
most as hard to meet. The advertise-
ment specifies that she must be ‘un-
der forty, immune from the movies
and house broken.” — Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Divergent Views.
Girl (watching aeronaut)—Oh, I'd
! hate to be coming down with that
parachute.
Mere Man—I'd hate to be coming
down without it—Chaparral.
concealed manuscripts which she be- | Hy
lieved had been interred with the body | 12 earth) or air.
i vest fail for a
stay in the Big Burg.
or the rose. It yields no fru’
and vet should its ha»
single year, famine
would depopuiate the world.—Irom a
“Collection
James Ingalls.”
THEY'LL GET YOU SOME WAY
City Scalawags Hard to Beat, Accord-
ing to Testimony of Visitor From
Jimpson Junction.
“If them infernal scalawags up
there in Kay See can’t get you one
way they will another!” disgruntledly
asserted the gent from Jimpson Junc-
tion, who was just back from a brief
“Pretend to do
vou a favor and then skin you alive!
Tuther night in my room in the hotel
I was ’'tending to my own business
when a feller in the next room yelled
what in all this and that was coming
off. :
“ ‘I'm nailing my clothes to the floor,
of the Writings of John !
if it's any of your by-gosh business! I!
hollered back. ‘I'm
suit stole while I'm slumbering.’
“ ‘Why, you pea-green yokel!
velled back,
fire department goes roaring by in the
middle of the night and you can't yank | 7
on your clothes and run after it?
“‘By cripes! I hadn't thought of
that!" says I. ‘I would be in a dickens
of a fix. wouldn't I? TI claw my
clothes: loose from’ the floor and run
the visk of having
wouldn't like fo miss a good fire. Much
obliged to you, sir!’ ;
“Well, T done so, and went to sleep
and as far as I know the fire depart-
ment never made a. run the whole
night long. And next morning my
‘clothes were gone, and so was the fel-
ler in the next room.’
Star.
—Kansas City
: Ribbon Fish’s Oddities.
“The ribbon fishes.” said John T
Nichols, head of the department of re
cent fishes at the 'Muscum of Natural
History, according to the New York
Times, “are perhaps. the least. known
of the larger marine species. They
are elongate, flattened from side to
side with a manelike fin on the back.
Specimens are 15 to 20 feet long, he-
ing from 10 to 12 inches deep, and
about an inch or two broad at their
thickest part. They have big eyes
and small mouths.” :
Very few specimens ever come to
light and these are usually washed up
on some shore or are found floating
at the surface in a dead or dying con-
dition. The larger ones are known to
grow to be 20 feet or so in length and
very likely attain a considerably
greater size, but this is a matter of
pure conjecture. Young individuals
of some of the species but a few
inches long are not rarely met with
near the surface.
Natal Superstition.
Persons born between October 23
and November 22, when the sun is in
Scorpio, have a courageous, loving
d%position. Have natural dignity and
great persuasive ability. Make friends
readily. Have more power over minds
of others than over their own impulses.
They are aggressive and executive, and
naturally fitted to oveiyee others. They
are capable of great things if they
can be induced to stay at one thing
long enough—but are impatient of re-
sults. They are well adapted for gov-
ernment jobs.
Unlucky Birthday.
People born on Saturday (Saturn's
day), will have much difficulty in ac-
quiring money and will have to work
hard. This may make them melan-
choly and avaricious and inclined to
run into debt. They should guard
against carelessness in dress and the
reading of evil books. They will be sub-
ject to disease of legs and knees. They
will have much luck in finding hidden
treasure; will be apt to be uncomely
and unpopular.
And He Would Not Smile.
“That head walter would smile and
take your last dollar.”
“Probably not. He wouldn't accept
as little as a dollar under any circum-
stances.”
them stole, 1 |
a tollable sound |
sleeper, and don’t aim to have my best | f
he
“what will you do if the
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