Brat QUAKES IN BRITISH ISLES Seismatic Disturbances Not at All Un- common, Though They Seldom Do Much Damage. Although not frequently reported, earthquakes arz quite common in the British isles, but rarcly do sufficient damage to attract wide attention, re- marks the New York Times. Near Lon» don the site of the battle of Barnet, where the famous earl of Warwick was killed, is occasionally associated vith mild earth tremors, and old resi- dents in that district have often de- plored the loss of cups and saucers shaken from shelves and tables. Some years ago Colchester, near the east coast of England, was subject to an earthquake which did considerable damage to buildings. Many persons interested in seismography visited the headquarters of the English oyster in- dustry and reported upon the occur- rence, among them the late Professor Milne, the well-known authority upoa the subject, who established an earth- «quake recording plant on the Isle of Wight. Professor Milne’s subsequent expla- mation of the apparently unusual oc- currence was that a considerable por- tion of the channel now occupied by salt water, dividing Great Britain from the continent of Europe, followed the seismic line between two volcanoes. Colchester, Harwich, Ipswich, Yar- mouth and Lowestoft stand near that Jine, and whereas inland places may feel shocks, the east coast towns are really exposed to greater danger from subterranean disturbances. HOUSE RICH IN TRADITIONS Bradford Homestead, Built in 1674, Is Preserved as a Memorial of Colonial Days. Bellefonte, Pa. December 8, 1922. One of the oldest houses in Massa- chusetts and one rich in Mayflower traditions is the Maj. John Bradford homestead at Kingston, in Plymouth county, about thirty-three miles south of Boston. It was built in 1674. The iand on which it stands originally was part of Governor Bradford's farm. At tis death that portion of the farm passed to his son, Maj. William Brad- ford, for some years deputy governor of the colony, and he gave the farm to tis son, John Bradford, on his mar- viage in 1675 to Mercy Warren, grand- «laughter of Richard Warren, one of those on the Mayflower. The house was built for their occupancy the pre- vious year. Maj. John Bradford and Lis wife lived there for 62 years and brought up a family of ten children. The house is a large plain frame structure with deep, slanting rear roof, and recently was renovated and fur- nished by a community organization known as the Jones River Village club, the town of Kingston being on the Jones river. Previous to that the ancient home had been occupied by an Italian family and there was danger that this fine memorial of the Brad- fords would fall into ruin. Many of the residents in Kingston contributed old furniture and the principal rooms have a typical old-fashioned Seven- teenth century atmosphere. College Bars Ministers as Visitors. Girard college bars ministers. When Stephen Girard, noted merchant, died in 1831, he left $5,260,000 for the es- tablishment of a college for “poor white male orphans.” By a provision in his will, no ecclesiastic, missionary or minister of any sect whatever is to hold any connection with the college, or even be admitted as a visitor, or for any other pretext. However, the institution is required to instruct its pupils in purest prin- ciples of morality, leaving them to adopt their own religious opinions. The founder explained that exclu- sion of clergymen was intended to keep the minds of the boys free from confusion of denominational controver- sles. There is an explanatory clause in the will stating that this exclusion is not a “reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever. ” Hse Rune Stones. Every one admits that runes were among the earliest forms of writing, and some claim Odin the Old was the Znventor. The common people at- “tuibuted all sorts of mysterious pow- » “s-pps to runic inscriptions found on ‘+ gtomes over the dead and in other “vplaces. Uneducated people thought “i that Rings, prophets and witches had "" the power to make queer signs, and a "* mighty spirit lurked behind all runes written on stone. Gradually, this idea " woreiaway .AS runes were more com- Lnty Yaced over the dead. Fifteen %e=o dred rune stones have been found tn Sweden alone, and some runic in- scriptions are on rings, arrows and cooking utensils. Demand Made by World. The orator's words come forth with power only when he puts himself into them. The artist lifts men to the highest apprehension of beauty when woul-power and mind-power, when heart and conscience, ali, are put into the painting, the music, or whatever that one is producing, Far above anything and everything which man’s outward life yields is mar’s inner life, his deeper self, his syne self. The world wants, needs, asks not for yours, but for you.—Grit. Santa Says Buy It At Fauble’s BEGAN WITH TEOSINTE PLANT Botanists’ Theory of the Origin of Maize—Enormously Developed by Cultivation. found teosinte cover ing our plains. It bore grains or small kernels something like small wheat grains, not connected tozether, but loose in a tiny husk. The ears were from two to four inches long, thinner than a lead pencil, with each grain incased in a separate shell-like covering or shecth. Discovering that the kernels were good to eat, the Indians began to cul- tivate the plant. Since they always saved the best kernels for seed, teo- sinte ears gradually became longer and bigger round, so as to take care of extra rows of kernels. In time the chitinous sheaths disappeared. Such, the botanists believe, was the history of our maize. Mr. Burbank made his experiment in order to test the theory. Starting in 1903, he gradu- ally developed the teosinte plant with its miniature kernels into a much lar- ger plant with a round cob and several rows of large, fat kernels. At the end of a few years he found an occasional kernel that had emerged from its sheath. Ie bred only those kernels and in a few years more the sheaths had en- tirely disappeared. At the end of the eighteenth year he had produced ears of Indian corn. Though the ears do not equal the superior varieties now grown in America, they compare favor- ably in every way with those that the first white settlers found the Indians cultivating. The Indians PREPARATION FOR OLD AGE Physician Advises Each Individual to Plan for the Coraing Decade of His Life. To live to be very old is not always a pleasant experience. The numerous aches and pains that come to mortals after eighty are not agreeable. Of course, young-old men may not know what rheumatism or gout means. But there are old-young men of thirty- eight that have had nearly every mala- dy save the one which is the cause of death. Dr. Stanley Hall suggests that as the young have ideals suitable to maturity, the mature should plan for the next stage of their lives. Thus at forty we should plan for fifty, at fifty for sixty, at sixty for seventy and at seventy for eighty. Doctor Hall somewhat forei- bly describes forty as the infancy of old age, fifty as its boyhood, sixty as its youth and seventy as the time when it attains its majority. Dut in computing age the mind must be taken into account as well as the body. Some people feel old at thirty. Others feel young at eighty. The normal man or woman never feels old. Moreover, oc- togenarians have undertaken great works after eighty. Goethe was eighty- two when he began the second part of “Faust.” People Necessary to a Tale. 1 have always held the old-fashjoned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a tule and I have never helieved that the nov- elist who properly performed this first condition of his art was in danger, on that account, of neglecting the de- lineation of character—for this plain reason, that the effect produced by any narrative of events is essentially de- pendent, not on the events themselves, but on the human interest which is directly connected with them. It may be possible in novel-writing to present character without telling a story; but it is not possible to tell a story suc- cessfully without presenting charac: ters; their existence. . being the sole condition on which a story can be effectively told, The only narrative which can hope to lay a strong hold on the attention of readers is a narra. tive which interests them about men and women—for the perfectly obvious reason that they are men and women themselves.— Wilkie Collins. rs ny The Masonic Order. The Order of the Freemasons, in ac- cordance with its principles and con- stitutions, is undenominational. It em- braces Jews and Mohammedans as well as Christians of all churches. It is nonpolitical. The discussion of po- litical matters is forbidden at its meetings. "It enjoins on its members the duty of avoiding plots or conspira- cles against the state and of obedience to the laws of the land wherein they reside. Its activities are charitable and social. It maintains orphan schools for boys and girls in which the chil- dren of deceased Freemasons are edu- cated. End of Time. There entered a jcweler's shop an old man with an ancient clock under his arm. This he laid on the counter with the request, “I wish you'd see what's the matter with this.” The jeweler removed the dial, screwed his eyeglass into place, and in- spected the works of the old time- piece. “Nothing is the matter with it—now; its sufferings are over.” “Well, how much do I owe you?” “Nothing,” answered the jeweler, “This is not professional treatment, This is a coroner's inquest.” Opportunity for Selection. “There are a remarkably large num- ber of issues now before the people.” “The situation has its advantages,” replied Senator Sorghum. ‘Whenever you find you are getting the worst of an argument you can change the sub ject.” EMOTION AND THE APPETITE Old Theory That People in Love Ar: Seldom Hungry Has Deen Pretty Well Exploded. The theory that young men ond women in love lose their appetites l..: for good und all been exploded. The newly engaged pair who pre ferred to spend the quiet darkening hours: of dinner time on the lawn rather than partake of the meal i general company was the most prom- inent example that led up to the he- lief that lovers found food unneces- sary. Now, however, doctors have proved that any emotion that creates pleas- ure, as love and hope, tends to stimu- late the action of the heart and other organs. A more brisk circulation occurs, pro- ducing healthy appetite. On the other hand, it stands to rea- son that opposite emotions are liable to impede the action of the heart. Thus, fear, grief and despair put the brake on the working of the digestive organs. The emotion produced by fear en- feebles the muscular and nervous :avs- tems, sometimes to such an extent that indigestion may set in for seem- ingly no reason at all. So, before allowing yourself to get angry, remember the injurious after- effects. The longer vou can make love or any other state of happiness last the greater your chances of living to Aa ripe old age. FIRELESS CCOXEFS NOT LW Housewife of Prehistoric Dronze Age Arplied the Prinzin'2 in Her Primitive “Kitchen.” The prehistoric bride in the eorly .Bronze age could boil water without burning the wood-nnd-Lide cor tans which her hunter hushand furn’s!ed her. Miss Nina F. Layard has discov- ered primitive ecoking places at Buck- enham Tofts park, Norfolk, England. Ancient kitchens, now being exca- vated by her, are marked by thousands of flints cracked by fire. These rocks were apparently used as heaters for boiling water in vessels which would not stand the fire. They are found 3 foot or two beneath the sod and invari ably a few yards from a strean. Either a wooden trough or a stretched hide was in all probability the utensil used. This was filled with water and then the red-hot flints were shoveled in.. In this way the water was soon brought to a boil. The bones and teeth of oxen and horses found be- tween the heaters and the stream show where the cooking took place while with these flint heaters imple- ments were found wkich fix the time as being in the early Bronze age. Stones Once Used in Casting Lots. The custom of deciding doubtful questions by lot is one of great extent and high antiquity, recommending it- self as a sort of appeal to the Almigh- ty, secure from all influence of pas- sion or bias. It also is a sort of divi- nation said to be employed even by the gods themselves. In the primitive method of casting lots stones were often us=i. These, marked in some way, were placed in the fold of a garment or more often an urn, helmet or a vessel of some sort. The shaking of the garment or vessel would throw a stone out on the ground, according to which the decision was given. Tle lot was used to determine such cases as the inheritance of the tribes, hence each tribe's portion was called “the lot of its inheritance.” A mode of divination among heath- ens was by means of arrows, two in- scribed and one without mark. Says Girls Should Play More. Girls require more opportunities for play than they get and boys should share domestic tasks with girls, in the opinion of Dr. W. H. Hamer, London’s school medical officer. to the conclusion that schoolgirls have too much work to do and that in con- sequence they suffer more than boys from defective vision, heart disease, anemia and spinal curvature. “These can all be traced to the same set of causes,” he says, “less oppor- tunity for play than boys, less time spent in the open air, the pefform- ance of household duties, and, in re- gard to school, a different curriculum.” Coconut Shell Mandolin. Compared with the rest of their achievements, the African natives have reached a high development In music. Their instruments, while made of crude materials, are often orna- mented with remarkable decorative skill, and the sounds obtained are highly effective. Coconut shells chosen for their size and shape are especially favored for the bodies of mandolins, and with these quaint instruments muscians, who are privileged charac- ters, wander about like the ancient bards and minstrels and exert a great influence over the chieftains. Radiation From Sun. Experiments made last summer in Europe show that the amount of radi- ation received from the sun on the surface of the earth in a clear day is greater with a dark blue than with a light blue sky. In tha latter case there is a higher tension of the water vapor in the air. It is suggested that some instrument capable of measuring accurately the intensity of the blue of the sky would be useful in observa- tions on the variable transmission of the sun's heat through the atinus- phere. He has come | Thinking of a Sixth. A certain actor who has been known for his matrimonial adventures, one day approached a physician and asked for a thorough physical examination. “I want to see that I'm fit for a good many years yet, doc,” he said. “You know I'm to be married again soon, for the fifth time.” “H-m,” muttered the examiner as he put the stethoscope to the actor’s heart. “Of course, this fifth lady is the only girl in the world for you, and this is positively your last matrimo- nial venture?” “Oh, come, doctor,” cried the thes- pian, much alarmed. “I’m not as bad off as that, am 1?” HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA. Is Your Blood Good or Thin and Watery? You can tell by the way you feel. You need - Hood’s Sarsaparilla to make your blood rich, red and pure, tingling with health for every organ. You need it if weak and tired day in and day out, if your appetite is poor, sleep unrefreshing,—for hu- mors, boils, eruptions, scrofula, rheu- matism, headaches, nervous prostra- tion. 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