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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. ”
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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.
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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.
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You can tell by the way you feel.
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You need it if weak and tired day
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poor, sleep unrefreshing,—for hu-
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strength to your whole body.
It is agreeable, pleasant and con-
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