Boor in
"Bellefonte, Pa., March 11, 1921.
TOLSTOY iRKED BY IDLENESS
Letter Written by Russian Phiics.
opher Condemns Life Led by
Indolent Men of Means.
The Vossische Zeitung prints the
following letter by Tolstoy, written in
1884, with the remark that it has nev-
er before been published except in
Russian, and that its value lies in the
fact that as early as 1884 Tolstoy had
about made up his mind to do what
he did in 1910—leave home and live
the life of a peasant. The letter reads
in part:
“I am living in the country, involun-
tarlly according to a new method. I
go to bed early, get up early, write
very little but work a great deal, eith-
er making boots or mowing hay. I see
with joy (or possibly it only seems
to me like joy) that there is some-
thing up in my family. They do not
condemn me; as a matter of fact, they
seem ashamed of themselves.
“What miserable creatures we are
and how we have all gone astray.
There are a great many of us here,
my own children and the children of
Kusminsky, and nobody does a thing
but gulp down food. They are all big
and strong, yet they do nothing. Peo-
ple in the village are at work. My
children eat and make their clothes
and their rooms dirty and that is all.
‘Everything is done for them by some-
body else, yet they do nothing for
anybody. And worst of all, they seem
to feel that it is as it should be. But
1 have had my own part in building
up such a system, and I can never for-
get it. I feel that for them I am a
trouble-fete. But it is clear that they
are beginning to see that this cannot
go on this way forever.”
HAD NO CAUSE FOR WORRY
Under the Circumstances Wash White
Could Afiord to Live Life of
Elegant Leisure.
Senator Gronna of Dakota was
analyzing a political opponent at a
Dakota luncheon.
“The man is bad through and
through,” he said. “He's actually so
bad that he mistakes badness for
goodness—is proud of himself, in
short.
“By Jove, he makes me think of
Uncle Washington White. As Uncle
Wash loafed in front of the poolroom
one morning the preacher's wife
. stopped and said:
“ ‘Washington,
to work?
“Old Wash White, as he puffed
serenely on his corncob, answered:
“Bekase Ah got a wife an’ chil-
dren toe suppo’'t—’
“But,” the preacher’s wife impa-
tiently interrupted, ‘you can’t support
them by loafing here in front of this
poclroom.’
“uxcuse me, Miss’ Fo’thly, said
Wash, with dignity. ‘Lemme finish
mah remark. Wot Ah means toe say
is that Ah's got a wife an’ chillun toe
suppo’t me.’ ’—Detroit Free Press.
why don’t you go
New York Bceys’ New Game.
The game of marbles no longer holds
a throne in boyville. Any New York
side street where there's enough room
between bluecoats and automobile
traffic to play, will show you that a
new game has taken its place.
“Sidewalk checkers,” the boys call
't. The new game really has the ele-
ments of both the old marble shooting
days and checkers as played on a
board. Checker men are used—red,
black, blue—the color makes no dif-
ference. A ring is drawn with chalk
and the object is to flip your checker
man with enough force to knock your
contenders out of the ring.
“Hully gee!” said a future Ponzi as
he gathered up his winnings on Reade
street near Broadway, “ain't I got
enough lumber here to start me a
paper mill?’—New York Sun.
Men Who Repair Skeletons.
There are two kinds of skeleton-
menders—the bone surgeon and the
skeleton-assembler. Art schools, medi-
cal colleges, and students of anatomy
require an accurately constructed skel-
eton to aid in their work.
All the bones must be properly as-
sorted and carefully put together.
‘They are strung on fine wires. The
-skeleton-assembler must also pick out
«of the hundreds of odd bones that are
sent him the 200 or more bones that
‘belong to the particular individual be-
ing reconstructed. It is not an easy
task, and the price of skeletons is
justified by the amount of work re-
quired to construct them.—Popular
Scrence Monthly.
May Use South American Wood.
The Pennsylvania railroad, owing
to the unprecendented cost of railroad
ties, has decided to investigate the
adaptability of the hard woods of
Central and South America for this
purpose, it is announced. Normally
the Pennsylvania system uses from
5,000,000 to 6,000,000 ties annually.
The average net cost has risen fully
100 per cent since the beginning of
the war. Furthermore, white oak,
which the company regards as the
most desirable wood for ties, is be-
coming scarcer. Therefore, the com-
pany has inquiries under way to de-
termine the comparative cheapness
and durability of southern hard woods
for railroad ties.
——When in doubt as to your pa-
per take the “Watchman.”
NATIVE TRIBE LITTLE KNOWN
Tehuelches of Patagonia Have Many
of the Characteristics of North
American Indians.
Many are the strange and interest-
ing native tribes that are found in the
Americas.
ing are the people of the ostrich, who
inhabit an almost as yet unknown
country, and in language, and char-
acter, and race, are altogether dis-
tinet from other Indians, says an ar-
ticle on “People of the Ostrich” in
Boys’ life. They live in the remote
and almost legendary regions of the
“land of large-feeted men’—a land,
that like Chili, Peru, Mexico, and
northwest South America, has ite
story of the existence of a hidden city
among the unexplored wilds of their
Cordilleras.
The Tehuelches of Patagonia, that
vast peninsular end of South America,
are scattered across it, from the
Straits of Magellan and the Rio Ne-
gro—a territory of over 1,000 miles
in length and 300 at its narrowest. A
brave, active, athletic people, won-
derful horsemen, singularly expert
with their weapons and implements,
who lead a wandering life, and hunt
the wild cattle, the guanacos—and
ostriches. Tor Patagonia is a home
of that splendid bird, which was
there ages before men crossed its
path in the faraway wilds of the in-
terior. To the Tehuelches, this fine bird
is as important in their existence as
the guanaco, for they are a race of
hunters, and grow but little food for
themselves.
PREACHES FROM AN AIRPLANE
Minister With Many Parishes to Cover
Puts Modern Mode of Travel
to Good Use.
No tolling church bells announce to
the little communities scattered
through one section of America’s great
Northwest the periodic Sunday morn-
ing arrival of the region's most en-
terprising itinerant evangelist. In-
stead, they hear the coughing exhaust
of an engine, as his airplane spirals
down upon the village. Drawn irre-
sistibly by the novelty of the visit, they
flock to the airplane, now at rest in a
nearby field or meadow. They find
the preacher on his feet in the pilot's
cockpit of the plane “Sky Pilot,” ready
to begin his discourse.
Explanation of this strangest of all
the airplane's uses is found in the
evangelist’s decision, some months ago,
that the time and energy required for
constant travel among distant parishes
was seriously curtailing his effective-
ness. He decided to defy all precedent
by allying aeronautics and religion. He
first subjected himself to a rigorous
course of training, and became an ac-
complished airman. He then pur-
chased his plane, selecting a three-
seater of sporting type. The rear cock-
pit seats the pilot, and serves as his
pulpit when the meetings are held in
the open; the forward cockpit accom-
modating his two assistants, one of
them a song leader.—Omaha Bee.
Women Crave Excitement.
The wife of a very wealthy man
was arrested with a group of bandits
after a pistol battle with the police,
in which the woman was shot in the
arm. She is a woman who has trav-
eled, is educated and bears every evi-
dence of refinement. The police say
that there are many women of this
kind who work with thieves unbe-
known to their families, The call of
adventure is the prime motive. In a
raid on an East side wine cellar re-
cently ten men and one woman wer:
taken to headquarters in a patrol. All
the men had criminal records. The
woman is happily married to all ap-
pearances, and is a patron of the
opera. She said the men and women
in her set were dull and that she liked
to get out and mingle with the men
who lived by their wits and were not
afraid of dangerous paths—New
York Times.
The Chef's Daily Manicure,
One of the daily events in the life
of a chef in any of the large New
York hotels is his morning manicure.
Before he touches food, his hands are
carefully washed and his nails are
cleaned, cut and polished.
The job is not given to a sweet girl
manicurist, but to one of the hotel
physicians. He is always on hand
during the day; should the chef acci-
dentally cut himself, the doctor will
bandage the wound, as he is there for
that purpose.
Chefs are precious these days; many
of the French ones—unable to get
their daily bottles of wine—have gone
back to France, where the thought of
prohibition can still be treated as a
joke, though even in France there are
heard ominous rumbles between the
jokes passed at our expense.—Popul
Science Monthly.
To Jail by Airplane.
Aerial policemen in San Irancisco
are thus far the first to make use of
the airplane to conduct a prisoner to
jail, via the automobile patrol.
The sky route offers the most direct
passage between two places, and in
this instance the prisoner was trans-
ferred from the Alexandra county jail
across the bay of San Francisco to the
locality where an automobile patrol
was waiting to continue the journey
through the city. Where it is neces-
sary to save time, the airplaue can
be of service, as in this case.
When the air becomes crowded with
machines, the arrest of violators of
the air-traffic laws will undoubtedly
become common and aerial patrols |
will no longer excite comment.—Pop-
ular Science Monthly.
Among the most interest- !
HARDING USED
LOUD SPEAKER
DEVICE INSTALLED WHICH
: THREW VOICE OVER VAST
DISTANCE ON MARCH 4.
HUNDRED THOUSAND HEARD
Tremendous Energy Developed By
Hidden Amplifiers and Motors
—Telephone Principles
Involved.
Washington, D. C.—For the first time
in the history of the United States an
inaugural address was heard by everyone
of the hundreds of thousands of men
and women who crowded the broad open
space which stretched for fifteen hun-
dred feet in every direction around the
inaugural stand in front of the Capitol
Building. The reason for this was found
in the loud speaking device which was
installed for the benefit of the public,
and which was the only feature of the
entire simple inaugural ceremony outside
of the taking of the cath. By means of
this device, which is hidden from the eye,
the human voice is made to carry half a
mile under perfect conditions.
It was a system of motors, genera-
tors, wires, transmitters, amplifiers and
other electrical machinery designed by
the experts of the Bell Telephone Sys-
tem, which contributed the speaker to
the inaugural ceremonies for the benefit
of the public. It is not a commercial
sale or for rent. To the experts, the
system is the exposition of the develop-
ment of everything scientiZc in the tele-
phone world, for the principles involved
are those of the telephone and the engi-
neers and research men of The Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Company
and the American Telephone and Tele-
oraph Company, simply brought into play
some of the marvelous discoveries and
developments of The Bell laboratories.
All Apparatus Hidden.
Although there were three rooms
full of machinery and electrical de-
vices in connection with the loud
speaker, none of it was in evidence,
and the huge horns through which the
speech was heard were camouflaged
by being made a part of the rcof of
the speaker's stand. So far as the
speaker himself is concerned he saw
transmitter boxes which were set
somewhere in front and to the sides
of his speaking desk, so that his voice
was caught in the workings of the
loud speaker no matter which way he
turned.
When the President-elect spoke, his
voice generated energy by means of
the transmitters. This energy was trans-
ferred by wires to the complex apparatus
instalied under the Capitol steps. The
energy is led into a little glass bulb,
which the experts call a “vacuum tube
amnlifier,” the function cf which is to
receive energy, multiply it and send it on
the cther amplifiers until it reaches a
tage suTicient to turn it loose in voice
{orm through the hidden horns out to
the distant crowds.
a .dozen experts were
bit of apparatus. There were
certain points on the capitol plaza con-
nected with the machinery rooms by
amplifiers.
requires a crew as large as a small
vessel.
Amplifies Millions of Times.
The voice, when it emerges from the
horns, is almost an exact duplication of
the original, but greatly increased in
power. It is possible for the loud
speaking system to obtain an amplifica-
tion of several millions times without
aveat distortion of the original wave
form.
The mouths of the hidden horns are
depressed just enough so that the audi-
ence near at hand within range of the
speaker's voice direct, hear very little
frem the horn, those further away hear
both the speaker and the loud speaking
systen1, those furthest away hearing the
horn only.
It might seem that this additional
source of sound, might create a double
effect or an unnatural effect, but it does
not. The sound from the horn is ex-
actly in phase with the speech, and
almost exactly the same quality. At
any point where the sound from the
horns is heard, it is practically impos-
sible to tell that one is not listening to
the speaker himself.
—The “Watchman” gives all the
news all the time.
nothing of the apparatus except small |
While the speaking was in progress; |
watching cach |
mon at |
telephone, to report to the men at the |
The working loud speaker |
MS
Victer in Remarkable Combat
Dog, as Reported by “Honest and
Upright Person.”
Thompson
angler and
Russell
noted
of Sarasota, a
dealer in
Florida Fisherman.
“Last Sunday morning 1 happened
to be standing looking out the win-
Halton’s |
bird and hound dog came down the al |
ley with his back feet over his neck |
Mayor :
The rab- ;
bit is a very large specimen of the |
well able to care
for himself, as well as the doz who |
bird, |
and anything else that!
it was!
dow. All at once Dr. Jack
Cn the act of running) and
Edwards’ rabbit in the lead.
rodent family and
happens to be combination
rabbit, coon
happens to be in sight. Well
pot long before the same pair came
back, but the rabbit was not in the
lead.
‘
a
and seemed to be having a wonderful
time, when all of a sudden the rabbit,
tiring of such amusement (please be-
lieve me), jumped and bit Dr. Jack
Halton’s dog under the then,
to do the job up right, kicked pcor
Major several times, thus ending the
morning's exercise.”
neck,
| ONE HIGH SCHOOL A DAY
device, it is not patented, nor is it for |
That Hoa
Coun-
For Twenty-Eight Years
Bcea the Record This
try Has Made.
In a pamphlet on high schools in
this country, issued by the federal bu- |
reau of education, it is stated that the
schools in 1917.
total number of these
18 was 13,951. The
the bureau includes
16,300 high schools, The
of these schools has increased
452 per cent since 1890.
mailing list of
the names
lished in this country each day
school a day for 28 years.
fishing |
tackle, consequently a very honest and |
upright person, has submitted the fol- |
lowing, with affidavit attached to the
Rube, the dog, and the rabbit!
played for about twenty minutes up.
and down the alley, in the back yards, |
of
number |
over
This means ,
that one high school has been estab- i
in
each calendar year since 1890—a high |
FI.ORIDA RABEIT A FIGHTER LR
with |
It is a scientific fact that ‘“‘as you FEEL
so are you.”
Trim fitting, handsome new clothes,
actually make the man who wears them
not only look younger but FEEL younger.
If you don’t believe this just come in
and let us slide on to you one of our
brand new suits and overcoats. You don’t
have to buy them unless you want to.
We never urge anyone to buy, We let
our CLOTHING do it.
Wear our good, ‘Nifty’ clothes.
In 1890 60.8 per cent of the high
schools were under public control, but |
in 1918 the public-controlled
high |
schools were 87 per cent of the whole. !
The average size of a city high
school is 653 students and of a rural |
scheol 59 students.
In 1890 only 312 persons in each
1,000 population were enrolled in pub-
lic high schools. In 1918 the corre-
sponding number was 15.6, or almost
five times as great a proportion. Cali-
A. Fauble
58-4 !
fornia leads in high-school education,
with 27 persons out of each 1,000 in
the population. Kansas is a close sec-
ond, with South Carolina at the bot-
tom of the list, with 5.3 persons.
SEVEN YEARS OF
CATARRH RELIEVED
IN SEVEN DAYS
Mr. Alward Allen, of 667 Second
Avenue, North Troy, N. Y., went after
a bottle of Goldine No. 2 on January
14. Seven days
later he re-
turned to the
store and said:
“Isuffered
with catarrh for
seven years and
had given up
hope of ever get-
ting rid of it,
for nothing
helped me. A
week ago I got
a bottle of Gold-
ine No. 2. The
first three days
I took Goldine I
felt worse, but I
hi knew that the
medicine was working. Then the mu-
cus began to leave my head in great
chunks and since than I have felt
fine. I sleep, eat and feel better than
I have in months and I am more free
from catarrh than I have been in
years.”
(Signed) Alward Allen.
Do you suffer with catarrh? Why
not follow Mr. Allen's example and
get a bottle of Goldine No. 2? Don’t
put it off. Just think, a few weeks
from today you will probably be rid
of the disease. :
For sale by all druggists or send 10c
for liberal sample.
Goldine Mfg. Co., Dept. 8, Albany, N. Y.
Sold at M. B. Runkle's Drug Store.
Alward Allen
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An attractive reduction has been placed on
Silk Floor and Table
Lamp Shades
We will be glad to show them to you.
The town clock is on the second on the strike.
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
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
BELLEFONTE, Pa
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