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Bellefonte, Pa., April 1, 1921.
MEMORIAL TO CLARA BARTON
School in Which Great Woman Taught
Is to Be Preserved as Educatior-
al Landmark.
“A public school is impossible,” the
good folk of Bordentown, N. J, told
Clara Barten, thc greatest woman
teacher of her time, and one of the
best friends to children in all time.
“It has been tried and always it has
failed.”
She had taught at Hightstown in
1853, and the fame of her conquests
of expertly bad boys had spread. Her
pupils were her champions, and wher-
ever their enthusiasm could reach
some of the general prejudices against
public schools were shaken. But Bor-
dentown was ten miles away.
The new teacher took a tumble-
down, unoccupied building, with six
pupils, but in six weeks the place was
too small to hold haif of the little Bor-
dentowners who wanted, at last, to go
to school. It had become—though no |
one knew it then—an educational !
landmark. The old structure where
she proved that there was life in pub- |
He schools will be taken care of for
the future.
Since Clara Barton was the founder |
of the Red Cross in America, that or- |
ganization took the responsibility of
buying the school when it was in dan-
ger of destruction, but they could not
buy the site.
Now the building has
been moved and the land on which it
| have widely international results and
stands has been donated.
Burlington county teachers have re- i
stored the interior so skillfully that |
it is almost exactly as it was when |
Miss Barton taught there.
AS A FRENCHMAN SEES US
Americans Are Gamblers in Business
and Careless in Thrift, Is Verdict
He Renders.
Half a dozen British writers having |
looked us over this summer and record-
ed their impressions, a Frenchman,
Louis Thomas, is now doing the same
|
thing for the French Capper’s Weekly,
the Opinion.
, mere bigness.
“American wastefulness is a stupefy- :
ing thing to Frenchmen,” says Thomas. |
“We are thrifty and even we must
admit, avaricious.
Qur experts, who
co-operated with them in war enter-.
prises, found them abominably waste-
ful, indifferent to costs and improvi-
dent to the last degree.”
The reason is simple, says Thomas.
“Americans are gamblers.
‘They do not want to make a mod-
erate profit, a steady, regular, perhaps
mediocre income, but, on the contrary,
to make a great deal of money in &
very short time, to ‘get rich quick.
“They gamble at business—not at
roulette or baccarat; but it is gam-
bling all the same.”
As for wastefulness:
“So many people here have made
their money by chance, by good luck,
by a flash of imagination, and not by
the sweat of their br vw, that they are
naturally wasteful and spendthrift to
an extent which we can hardly imagine
in Europe.
“Everyone wastes, even the poor,
and particularly the women, who, for
the most part do not seem to have time ,
to acquire the habits of economical |
housekeeping possessed by women of
the old world.”
Grain Sown From Airplane.
Through an invention to sow grain
by airplane, aircraft may be listed as
agricultural implements. The new
“flying grain sower,” says the New
York Sun, will plant a strip of 36 feet |
wide traveling at the rate of 40 miles
an hour. The seeds are expelled by
air pressure from a perforated metal ,
tube with sufficient velocity to drive
them deep into the ground. At the
end of each wing a thin stream of
white lime or fertilizer is released to
outline the planted area. The plane is
constructed to make a landing on a
plowed field without damage.
Under normal conditions the “flying
sower” has a capacity of 640 acres in
about six hours. The same area plant-
ed with an eight-foot drill traveling at
the rate of three miles an hour would
take a man twenty-two and a half
days of ten hours. It is estimated that
1,000 acres could be covered in one
day by the air-sower.
Taxes of the Nations.
The tax burden in important coun-
tries was computed for the financial
conference held at Brussels. Ex-
pressed in dollars at the rate of ex-
change current in the summer, the
Nation’s Business states, it is shown
that per capita the United Kingdom
pays the highest taxes of $87.90; the
United States is second, with $56.60;
France, third, with $34.60; and Nor-
way, fourth, with $28.80.
With the income per capita, the
economists compared the present gov-
ernment revenue of the latter to the
former—which comes nearest to show-
ing the relative burdens of taxes today
—is lowest in the United States at 8
per cent and highest in the United
Kingdom at 27 per cent. The other
countries come in between.
— Powerful searchlights will be
used in an aerial lightway planned be-
tween London and Paris. This will
permit commercial use of aircraft by
night, making it possible for cargoes
to be collected at the end of the busi-
ness day in London and delivered at
Yue beginning of the business day in
aris.
THIS A “WOMAN'S COUNTRY”
English Writer Gives an Interesting
Impression of Her Sister Over
the Seas.
As an English woman who went
about America for nearly three years,
making friends, East, West, South and
North, I ought to be able to contrast
the women of the two countries, but
the more one travels the more one re-
alizes that “folks is just folks” all the
world over.
American women are quicker at the
uptake as regards friendliness and
kindnesses; but the tongue-tied Eng-
lish do just as much in the long run.
The American's manjers are more
cosmopolitan, her clothes are better
put on, she has more good stories in
her after-dinner speeches. But if you
compare corresponding types—as most
travelers omit to do—they are “both
the same color under their skin.”
America is a woman’s country. The
boy belongs to his mother, and most
women give their own opinions on all
subjects—quite curiously well ex-
pressed—without any suggestion of
having gone to a man for help.
The Englishwoman speaks more
shortly and with a suggestion of hav-
ing “asked her husband at home” ; but
1 doubt if the Englishwoman is worse
off, since England is the home of the
proverb, “As the good man saith, so
say we; but as the good wife saith
so must it be.”
One very noticeable charm in the
American woman is her quickness in
starting conversation with a stranger
and her aptness in saying something
pleasant at once. I cannot help think-
ing that if English nurseries and
school rooms taught this, it would
put more reality into the League of
Nations.—Lucy H. M. Soulsby in the
Woman's Supplement of the London
Times.
VAST EMPIRE IN SOUTH SEAS
Extent of Australasian Group Under
British Rule Is Hardly Real-
ized by Americans.
Judson C. Welliver writes in the
Country Magazine that our impres-
sions about the Australasian empire
of the future are rather vague, be.
cause we are unable 10 realize its
Thus the isiand of New
Guinea, the greatest island in the
world, if we classify Australia as a
continent, was, before the war, divided
between the British, Dutch and Ger:
mans. The British have now taken
over, in the name of Australia, the
German claims.
We think of New Guinea as a con.
siderable patch of dry land in the ex
panse of the southern ocean, but have
difficulty realizing that if it could be
laid down on the United States, one
end would be at Portland, Me, the
other near Omaha, and that it would
blot out an area about twice the size
of the German empire, and including
something like a quarter of the popula-
tion of these United States. It con-
tains vastly greater resources than
Germany, also about a thousand white
people and 500,000 aborigines, largely
cannibals. Half of it yet remains
Dutch, but its predestination to be
essentially British is quite obvious.
Australasia aims at leadership in
. the south temperate zone, on lines cu-
riously parallel to those by which
Great Britain has become leader in the
North. With inexhaustible coal and
iron, she is creating iron and steel and
shipbuilding industries and a navy of
her own. The war era has been mark-
ed by the completion of Australia’s
first transcontinental railroad, sugges-
tive reminder of the beginning of our
' own Union Pacific.
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Mt. Washington 6,293 Feet High.
Many persons believe that Mount
Washington, in New Hampshire, is the
highest mountain in the eastern part
of the United States. Mount Wash-
ington stands 6,293 feet above sea
level, according to the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior, but many peaks in the south-
ern Appalachians are several hundred
feet higher than New Hampshire's
famous mountain. The highest moun-
tain in the Appalachian system—the
highest point in the United States east
of the Rockies—is Mount Mitchell, in
North Carolina, which stands at an
elevation of 6,711 feet. The highest
mountain in Tennessee, Mount Guyot,
stands 6,636 feet above sea level.
Ivory Does Not Rust.
One cold afternoon several school
{ girls were standing on a corner walit-
ing for a car. A man invited them
to come into his office to wait for the
car. They accepted. The conversation
soon turned to the color of a certain
girl’s hair. One insisted it was red,
another that it was auburn, and an-
other that it was brown.
At the height of the discussion two
children entered the office. As soon
as they understood the nature of the
argument, one of the youngsters cx-
claimed :
“Oh, shucks! Her hair ain’t red.
Ivory don’t rust.”—Indianapolis News.
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Great California Industry.
Nearly a million acres are planted
to the fruit trees that supply the can-
neries of California, according to Elton
R. Shaw in an article in the Old Col-
ony Magazine, the organ of the Old
Colony club. Statistics tell us that
of the 100,000,000 acres of land in the
state eZ California, about 00,000 are
devoted to fruit trees; so it is easily
conceivable that the fruit-canning in-
dustry is no small part of the general
industrial activities of the “Golden
State.”
EERE TE I.
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LIGHT ON ANCIENT HISTORY
Some Interesting Data Egaring on the
Strange People Known to Fame
as the “Aefs.” i
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Evidently some one who had eaten
a great deal of army corned beef in
Europe wrote this amusing gkit in the
“Watch on tke Rhine,” remarks the
Youth's Companion. The piece is
headed, “Documents Published in the
Year 2473 A. D., by an American His-
torian” :
I have just been journeying along
the Rhine gathering data on the an-
cient tribe of men known as the Aefs.
The origin of this strange people is
one of the great mysteries of history,
Likewise their sudden extinction has
been just as lLafiling.
The Aefs appeared in western Eu-
rope very suddenly about the time of
the beginning of the Teutonic dark
ages—the latter part of the second
decade of the Tiwentieth century. For
a short period they flooded in great
numbers the entire territory of Gaul
from the Pyreneeg to the Rhine. Then |
they suddenly vanished.
It was recently thought that a clue
had been found to the kind of food |
eaten by these nomads. In an old |
cellar in Andernach there were found
what at first looked like peculiarly |
shaped bricks, but what later proved |
to be cans of a strange sort of meat. |
Ceriain investigators soon decided that
lis could be nothing other than ele- |
phant meat, and students were about
to make trips to Africa in search of |
further evidence, when the result of |
some chemical tests was published.
This showed that the meat was at
least 1007 years old, if not very much
older; and as the Aefs were in Gau!
about 550 years ago, it is folly to be-
lieve that this store of food belonged
to them. It is much more probable
that it was left there at the time Han-
nibal and his soldiers and elephant
supply trains made their long expedi-
tion against Rome.
1t is probably a good thing for Amer-
fen that the mysterious disappearance
of the Aefs came about, for there is
plenty of evidence that this barbaric
race was planning to migrate to North
America and establish itself on that
continent permanently.
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HISTORIC TREE NEARING END
Elm at Washington, Glosely Associated
With Samuel F. B. Morse, Will
Scon Be Gone.
will do well to beware of a contriv-
| ance newly patented by Richard C.
Another landmark in Washington is
nea destruction. The old “Morse
Elm.” under whose shade Samuel F.
II. Morse used to spend his leisure
Lours while working on his invention
of the telegraph, will soon be removed.
The tree was planted in 1820. In
the eorly forties the future inventor of
the telegraph used to foregather with
Lis cronies and newspaper men and
crack jokes about the “impossible”
and “crazy” invention of the magnetic
telegraph on which he was working.
The tree was in front of the old Wil- |
lard hotel.
Since those days the old hotel has
been replaced by a modern eleven-
story hostelry. Morse, whose inven
tion came true in 1844, died in 1872.
Dut the tree remained.
But it is now in its death hour in
spite of many operations of “tree sur-
gery” and all known applications of
“tree medicine” practiced by Washing-
ton's superintendent of city parks.
Houses of Mud.
Women in California are building
houses with their own fair hands.
What is more, they are making the
bricks.
The bricks, however, are of the kind
spoken of in the Bible as made by the
people of Israel in Egypt—i. e, of
clayey earth mixed with straw for a
binder. The straw is indispensable.
and it will be remembered how the
Israelites “kicked” because it was
not provided.
Such bricks are merely sun baked.
Missionary priests in California in the
carly days used them for building
churches and other structures which,
covered with stucco, were very hand-
come. These 'dobe buildings were also
substantial, weatherproof and endur-
ing, as is testified by many that still
stand, unimpaired by the wear of cen-
turiea.
With labor so high and materials
likewise, the idea of a mud dwelling,
which one can put up for oneself, even
the chiidren helping, has its attrac-
tions
The Dress Problem in the Orient.
The Yokohama Reform association
recently sent a communication to the
mayor requesting his co-operation in
endeavoring to prevent coolies and
workmen appearing in public places
with insufficient clothing to conform
with western ideas of propriety. The
association’s spokesman stated that
the reason for the request is the pres-
ence of a large number of foreigners
in the city, and the sight of the scant-
ily clothed persons on the streets and
in the tramcars will tend to give them
an unfavorable opinion of the city.—
From the Japan Advertiser.
Knocking a Tradition.
Turkey is a tradition. Because the
Pilgrim parents were rotten shots and
couldn't kill a quail on a bet, turkey
was all they could find for meat on
that memorable day. They had been
on a diet of clams so long that mayhap
even turkey tasted like food to them.
But tbat {3 no excuse for wishing the
blamed thing onto posterity and mak-
ing it a sacred duty to gnaw a bundle
of concentrated fiddlestrings on the
last Thursday of every November.—
Topeka Capital
‘tor had resigned and that he was or-
IDEA WOULD PLEASE DICKENS |
First Free Children’s iiteary in Eng.
land to Be Opened in Old Hume
cf Novelist.
There is to be cpened soon the first
free library for children in England in
a building in which that lover of chil-
dren, Charles Dickens, spent several
eventful years of his own childhood.
It is an idea so appropriate and fitting
that all supporters of the scheme must
wish for its success, remarks the
Christian Science Monitor. The house
in question is 33 Johnson street, Som-
ers town, and the Dickens family lived
here after they left Chatham, being
tenants of the house for five years.
From this house Dickens, the father,
was taken to the Debtors’ prison, the
Marshalsea, an incident which after-
ward supplied his son with “copy” for
two of his most famous books. “The
Pickwick Papers” and “Little Dorrit.”
Dickens is a striking example of how
much can be accomplished by a case
of real genius under adverse condi-
tions, and it is he himself in “David
Copperfield,” who tells us what help
and enlightenment he got in his
wretched surroundings from the few
books which made up his father’s tiny
library. Though small, that library
was a rich treasure trove to a clever,
child. Don Quixote and Gil Blas—
each of these masterpieces is com-
posed of many stories—and from
Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith and De-
foe, Dickens must have learned the
music of words, and the grace and dig-
pity of a tale of life well told.
If his old house now becomes the
home of a free library for children
who, like him, may have a chance to
forget the hard facts of their lives in
the works of great authors, everyone
who has the welfare of children at
heart, must rejoice.
GAS TO FOIL BANK ROBBERS
Centrivance Threatens to Make Trou-
ble for That Particular Class of
Society's Enemies.
Bank robbers who make a specialty
of attacking vaults with explosives
Roeschel of Harrisburg, Pa.
He proposes to provide a chemical
defense for banks in the shape of an
arrangement of glass tubes forming a
sort of poison-gas battery. It may be
made part of the gate inside a vault,
or may have any other structural re-
lation to the vaults that is deemed
desirable. It may even be portable,
so as to be placed in position at night,
and removable in the daytime.
The tubes are designed to contain
benzyl iodid, tear-gas stuff, or any
other suitable chemical which, when it
expands, is calculated to asphyxiate
the robber or at least put him to
flight. Bulbous expansions of the tubes
furnish containers for the deadly ma-
terial.
The robber has only to start some-
thing by setting off a charge of ex-
plosives. The concussion breaks the
tubes; out flows the lethal chemical,
and the business of burglary interests
the nocturnal bandit no more for that
occasion.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Beat Them to It.
An Irvington man planted several
hills of bantam sweet corn in an iso-
lated part of his garden to grow seed
for next year. He remarked to a
neighbor woman about the time that
“the blackbirds and sparrows had not
succeeded in finding his seed corn this
year.” The second morning after
making this remark he found about
forty blackbirds, near sunup, busily
devouring his corn. He “shooed”
them away and that evening pulled
all the ears and put them away for
safe keeping. The next morning he
locked out to see whether any black-
birds were on hand. Sure enough an
immense flock was sitting on the
ground at the base of the now barren
stalks looking at each other and
around. The puzzled look on their
“countenances,” he says, was 1udi-
crous in the extreme.—Indianapoiis
News.
Elevated to Bishopric.
Seldom has there been discovered
a more clever and effective device for
spreading the gospel than that ar-
ranged by wise oid Bishop Amator of
Armorica. He evolved a scheme
which promised the linking of the
church with the powerful state.
Catching Governor Germanus in
church one day, the bishop slipped up
behind that official. A pass with one
hand and he had snipped off the gu-
bernatorial locks; a pass with the
other hand, and a bishop” robe was
slipped over the tonsured dome. Be-
fore the governor could say the Amor-
ican equivalent for “Jack Robinson,”
he was informed that the Bishop Ama-
dained in his stead.
French Hostess Houses Closed.
Because of the small number of vis-
itors to the American cemeteries in
France during the cold months, the
hostess houses maintained by the
American Red Cross and the Y. W. C.
A. at Bony, Fere-en-Tardenois and Bel-
leau woods, for the comfort of parents
and friends who are visiting the
graves, are closed this winter. The
house near Romagne, at the Argonne,
the largest of the American cemeteries,
will remain open. If the nced is re-
newed 3a the spring the houses will
open again. Hundreds of American
travelers who have visited the graves
have been taken care of in these small
houses, the only quarters affording
meals, restrooms or any traveling com-
Quality Up
Prices Down
Six months ago men’s work shoes
at $5.00 per pair were so poor in
quality, that when I sold a pair 1
would just have to trust to luck
that the purchaser would not mur-
der me for selling a pair of shoes
made of paper. But, today shoes
are] better. I can sell a pair of
Men’s Work Shoes, guaranteed to
be absolutely solid leather, and guar-
antee the shoes to give the cus-
tomer satisfaction or a new pair
will be supplied—and
The Price is Only $5.00
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
Lyon & Co.
THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME.
After Easter Sale
Means the Extremity of Low Prices
Suits, Dolmans and Coats
We are receiving new styles in this department every
All the new shades
The spring wrap
day—which means the lowest prices.
in ripple or belted back: coats and suits.
is here in all grace and luxury.
Parisian Silk Dresses
Every style up to the minute in these handsome crea-
tions. The fashionable greys, browns and tans, in the new
eyelet embroideries and a touch of color in beads.
Sport, Skirts and Sweaters
Plaid and striped Skirt in side plaits and panel effect.
Prices are so low. We are ordering every few days to keep
our stock up. Handsome Tuxedo Sweaters, all wool, all
colors.
Rugs, Linoleums and Draperies
Just a reminder to save your dollars, by buying your
floor coverings here. Cretonnes and Curtains to match any
color scheme.
Dress Goods
The largest assortment in Silks, Voiles, Ginghams—
also Woolen fabrics at the pre-war prices.
forts near the cemeteries.
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME