"Bellefonte, Pa., August 11, 1922. HERE’S REAL BERNARD SHAW Apparently the World Has Had a Wrong Idea Concerning That Distinguished Gentleman. The popular supposition that Shaw is a great egotist is, like pearly all popular suppositions, hopelessly wrong, Cosmo Hamilton writes ia tha Spur. He poses as an egotist, be cause it affords him immense amuse- ment to see how much ire it pro- duces. He knows, of course, that he is a master craftsman who stands alone as a dramatist. He has proved it so often. As a matter of fact, he is a very simple and humble man, a great Christian, deeply moved by the woes and the sufferings of so many fellow creatures and greatly impa- tient of all the hypocrisy and red tape that stand in the way of the betterment of the world. No man living has keener sympathies or a more practical method of charity. He ‘gives most of his money away. And there is certainly no man who is so enthusiastic about other people's work, or go very ready to give a help- ing hand to the young men who are knocking at the door. It is a re- freshing and delightful sight to see him at one of his rehearsals, stand- ing in the middle of the stage in his bilious clothes and hygienic boots sur- rounded by the carefully chosen act- ors and actresses upon whom he tries his latest jokes, a kindly and whiten- ing Mephistopheles. It is equally delightful to see him walk forth in the afternoon into the London that he knows and loves so well, kid-gloved, dapperly hatted, wearing a loosely- built suit of tweeds, to make his jaunty way out of the purlieus of the Adelphi into Piecadilly, talking to himself, laughing aloud and utterly un- conscious of the attention of the pass- ers-by. He is really a sort of elderly schoolboy who makes a hobby of para- dox, whose legs are in the present, but whose head is 20 years in advance of his time. COMET-FINDING NOW EASY Work of Picking Up “Heavenly Viol tors” Has Been Reduced to a Scientific Basis. Seven comets which have been seen on previous occasions are expected to return to the vicinity of the earth this year. If they all keep their ap- pointments, and the average num- ber of new comets turn up, astronomers will have at least a full dozen under observation between now and Decem- ber 31. But there is reason to fear that some of the seven old comets have met with mishaps while bowling along through space, and that they have either been shattered into un- recognizable debris, or diverted into quite different orbits. There is, how- ever, little romance now in comet- finding, as was the case when heroic comet-hunters swept the skies all night in the hope of dropping on one. Now they set traps for them—combina- tion of telescopes and cameras turn- ing in unison with the rotation of the earth on its axis—and go to bed until morning, when they develop the plates and examine them for the tell-tale marks which betray any comets that may have entered the region of the sky thus photographed. Snake Causing Reign of Terror. A South Rhodesian farmer wrote to the director of the Port Elizabeth museum for advice on the disposal of a great mamba which inhabited a wooded kopje on his farm. “The snake,” said the farmer, “has already accounted for two natives and over 100 other victims in the shape of fowls, goats, calves and dogs. when- ever anything ventures within the pre- cincts of the snake's haunts it darts from cover, strikes, and retires into the undergrowth again like a flash. A glimpse is all that is ever seen of this death-dealing reptile,” The farmer states that the natives in the vicinity regard the snake with superstitious awe, declaring it to be the reincarna- tion of Lobengula, who seeks revenge for past wrongs. Lobengula was the king of Matabele Land and was long feared as a powerful warrior and per- sistent opponent of Christianity and civilization in his kiggdom. In 1893 he was defeated in a battle in which 500 of his men were killed. He then became a fugitive from his kingdom. i i Back to Pharaohs. In exchanging the Turkish title of sultan for that of king of Egypt, Aha- med Fuad I, asserts the nationhood of Egypt with a virtual hark-back to the Pharaohs. Sultans, khedives, valis—the Turkish name for vice- roys—and beys there have been for a century or two, but no king has reigned in Egypt since times so dis- tant as to stretch away into the shadowy Biblical era. “King” of Egypt has a homely, British ring that will remind Ahamed Fuad and his people of Britain's material interest in Egypt's destinies. But Pharaoh was the ancient title of the Egyptian sovereigns—originally a proper name like Caesar, adapted to a hereditary monarchy. Indigestion. First Cannibal—Our chief has hay fever. Second Cannibal—What brought it on. First Cannibal—He ate a grass wid ow.—Journal American Medical Asso ciation, ——Subseribe for the “Watchman.” | DARREN