Bellefonte, Pa., January 12, 1923.
WOULD GET Oli. FROM COAL
British Scientist Points Out How the
Country Can Procure Adequate
Supplies of Fuel.
Great Britain could produce enough
oil for its navy and merchant marine
from home-niined coal if the necessity
arose. This was revealed by Dr. C. H.
Lander of the fuel research board at
the recent meeting of the British As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Science,
Production of oil from home re-
sources is extremely important to
Great Britain, since an almost com-
plete substitution of oil for coal has
taken place in the navy and is being
gradually followed by the merchant
marine. Although coal, peat and shale
can be made to yield liquid fuel, coal
alone can be regarded as a possible
source from which sufficient quanti-
ties could be produced by practical
methods.
A ton of average bituminous coal
will yield 14 gallons of fuel oil, or
about six per cent by weight of the
raw material used. For every 1,000,
000 tons of oil produced 16,000,000
tons of coal will be used, and will
yield also 11,000,000 tons of coke and
56,000,000 cubic feet of rich hydrocar-
bon gas, so that if satisfactory low
temperature process on carbonization
proves feasible the 35,000,000 tons of
coal used annually for domestic pur-
poses would produce 2,100,000 tons of
ol, more than the peace requirements
of the navy, and leave an enormous
amount of manufactured fuel, which
it would be necessary to induce do-
mestic consumers to use in place of
raw coal.
NO CONSIDERATION AT ALL
Naturally, Young Lady Was Indignant
at the Demand Made by “Gump”
Behind Her.
Judge Gary said at a steel men’s
banquet in New York:
“We are all selfish, of course—that’s
nature, but the selfishness of the bol-
shevistic, communistic class is some-
thing out of the ordinary.
“It reminds me of the young lady
with the tall bunch of feathers in her
hat. It was at the matinee, and a
man behind her asked politely if she
wouldn't take her hat off. She com-
plied—she knew she had to, but she
was careful to say to her companion
fn a loud, indignant voice that the |
man was sure to hear:
“‘Ain’t some people the selfish hogs? ,
That gump asked me to take off my !
hat, and I was too much of a lady to |
refuse, of course; but wouldn't you
think the darn old selfish pig might
have known that holdin’ the hat in
my lap like this the feathers would be
bound to come up above my eyes So's
I couldn’t see nothin’ at all of what
was happening on the screen!’ ”
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“Getting Back” at Witty One. :
Boston's merchant prince, Edward '
A. Filene, contrives to find time for |
many nonbusiness activities. He un-
dertakes and capably discharges no
end of public duties; he is a leader in
various movements; he is particular-
ly Interested in activities calculated to
bring workers and employers closer
together. Also he has a reputation as
a public speaker. Here's a Filene
anecdote, told as narrated—not by
Mr. Filene—to me:
The toastmaster at a big dinner was
eager to shine as a brilliant wit. This
ambition led him to perpetrate sev-
eral crude, not tc say cruel, jokes.
When he came to introducing Mr.
Fllene, he told the audience that Mr.
Filene had attained wide fame as an
after-dinner speaker. “In fact,” he
added, “all one has to do is to drop a
dinner in the slot and up comes a
speech from Mr. Filene.”—Forbes
Magazine.
Shaw Pulls Some Old Stuff.
There is a story told of George Ber-
nard Shaw that when some one in the
audience hissed his play, he said to
the offender, “I perfectly agree with
you, sir, but what are two against so
many?”
Witty enough that, but not entirely
original. In 1747, John Brown was in-
vited to become pastor of a church at
Hingham. There was one man opposed |
to his appointment who said that he |
liked Mr. Brown's person and manner |
but disapproved of his preaching,
“Then,” said Mr. Brown, “we are
agreed. I do not like my preaching
very well myself, but how great a folly
it 1s for you and me to set up our
opinion against that of the whole par-
ish.”—Boston Transcript.
Indian Fashion.
A woman who had been visiting in
the West and who had seen many in-
teresting Indians, bought some Indian
dolls for her little Chicago friends.
The dolls were dressed in Indian
fashion—shawl, colored handkerchief
about head, moccasins, patchwork
skirt and hand-made stockings. When
she got home she looked to see what
kind of underwear the Indians had
made for the Indian dolls, and every
one of them wore a georgette chemise!
Must even fashions as well as mod-
ern civilization reach the Indians?—
Chicago Journal.
Room fer a Slump.
“I tell you, I can’t lose, I'm going to
get in on the ground fioor.”
“The ground floor isn't the lowest
Igvel. There's the cellar.”—Louis-
yille Courier-Journal,
URGES USE OF WATER POWER
Preminent Engineer Shows How Fuel
Consumption Could Be Cut by
Its Employment.
A saving of 400,000,000 tons of coal
a year could be accomplished if the
latent water power in the United
States were developed to capacity, Dr.
Charles P. Steinmetz, chief engineer
of the General Electric company, dce-
clared at a dinner of the advisory
council of the Federated Engineers’
Development corporation, of which he
Is a member.
The state of New York could cut
its coal bill gor industrial enterprises
and public utilities to one-third of its
present cost, he said.
“There is available in the state 4,
000,000 horse power, or a saving of
34,000,000 tons of coal annually,” he
said. - “At present the consumption of
fuel in New York is 54,000,000 tons a
year. The recent strikes in the coal
fields and on the railroads have shown
that neither one of these public serv-
ices can be relied upon, and the so-
lution to the problem is for the state
to become independent of both.
“Ten million tons of coal are saved
annually in New York through the use
of water power developing 1,300,000
borse power. The country at large
uses 10,000,000 horse power, an annual
fuel saving of 80,000,000 tons, and
there is a latent horse power of 50,-
000,000, or a saving of 400,000,000 tons.
It still would be necessary te use
1,000,000 tons of coal each year for
heating.
NOT SO “HA’D” AS REPORTED
It Must Be Admitted Old Caesar Got
Out of a Difficult Situation
Rather Neatly.
After raking the lawn during a warm
summer morning, old Caesar decided
that it was too hot to keep on, so he
went in search of the woman of the
bouse, who had hired him for the day.
“Mis’ Lutie,” he said, “Ah done got
a message dat mah sigéiav ;ut here in
de country’s had a h’ad fall, and dey
wants me to come right away.”
That afternoon the woman’s husband
met old Caesar down town. “Why,
Caesar,” he said, “I thought you'd had
to go to see your sister in the coun-
try.”
“Yassuh, yassuh,” the old negro hur
riedly assured him: ‘Ah done started,
suh; yassuh. Den,” he added in a sud-
den burst of inspiration, “Ah done got
anudder message said she didn’t fall
so h’ad.”
Drivers’ Code Criticised.
“Don’t you-all up here have an)
code for an automobile driver to use?”
asked the young man from Virginia
after he had guessed for the third
time at what the driver ahead intend
ed to do when he held his hand out.
“There should be laws to make them
use one set .of signs.
“There, see that fellow. He has his
arm out straight. That should mean
he is going to turn to the right. But
you see he is only stopping. For that
he should have his arm turned up
straight from the elbow.
“If he wanted to turn in to the left
he should have swung his hand in cir-
cles, to indicate that he intended to
pull around on his own side of the
road. If things like that were gener-
ally used there would be fewer acci-
dents.”—New York Sun.
Serum for Snake Bites.
Sixty drops of venom, which will
form the basis of a serum to cure
snake bites, were milked from 33 cop-
perhead and moccasin snakes in the
Bronx zoo, New York. Experiments
in Brazil, establishing that whisky is
no remedy for snake bites, have led
to an increased demand for serum.
Groups of sober animals and groups
of intoxicated ones were bitten by
snakes in the experiments. The sober
ones outlived the drunks by five or six
hours, indicating that the increased
circulation due to alcohol speeded up
the work of the poison.
Serum has been délivered by air-
plane in response to radio calls, and
is infallible as a cure if injected
within six hours, according to Direc-
tor Dittmars of the Bronx zoo.
Looking-Glass Country.
According to a copy of the Russian
journal, Ekonomitse Heskaia Zizu,
which has just been received at Paris
by a French socialist, the editors of-
fer a month’s subscription for 1.200,-
000 rubles. For a two-months’ sub-
scription the price is 3,000,000 rubles.
i The apparent paradox is explained by
a note saying that the difference in
price for the first and second month's
subscription is due to the estimated
depreciation of the ruble in the next
four weeks. The amount of this de-
preciation is so uncertain, however,
that subscription prices cannot be
quoted more than two months in ad-
vance.—New York Times.
“Little Mothers” Work in Shifts.
Youngsters who use the wide plaza
in front of City hall as a playground
in the evenings have adopted a sys-
tem that makes lighter the task of
those who look after babies. Under
the system one youngster will herd a
group of about twenty or twenty-five
wards on the steps and keep them
amused and safe for 15 minutes or
so. Then she is relieved in turn by
another.
Of course, the system doesn’t al.
ways run along smoothly. There are
quarrels ahout time and turn of work,
but for the most part it enables all the
East side “little mothers” to get in a
turn at playing and roller skating with
put neglecting their little broods.—
New York Sun.
FOR BETTER PULPIT DELIVERY
Enterprise Started In New York to
Teach Art of Elocution to
Preachers.
Ingersoll used to say that on the
stage they pretend to be natural, and
in the pulpit it is natural to pretend.
It was a wicked saying when printed
without the winning smile; but what
would he have said had he heard of a
theater school organized to teach
preachers, not how to act, but how to
use their voices to the best advantage?
Such an enterprise is now afoot in
New York city, conducted by Evelyn
Hall, an actress, under Theater school
auspices—which proves that the melan-
choly Preacher of Jerusalem was
wrong when he said there is nothing
new under the sun, Nor is it a thing
to be laughed at. Many a good ser-
mon is spoiled because the preacher
does not know how to deliver it. Sure-
ly, if the preacher has the best of
good news to tell, he ought to use
every aid of art to tell it. Joseph
Parker learned much from his friend.
Sir Henry Irving, and Beecher used
to study Edwin Booth—asking him to
repeat the Lord's Prayer, that he
might hear it in a manner worthy of
its depth and beauty. As between an
untaught voice and an artificial elo u-
tion there is little to choose; hut
without going to either extreme there
is an art of using the voice which
brings out its natural quality and
power, and it should be employed in
the service of the Gospel.—-Christian
Century.
VICTIM OF PRACTICAL JOK:
Rather Mean Trick, Credited to Mem
ber of Washington Club, Played
on Business Man.
They are telling a story around the
Razequet club of a practical joke
played upon an out-of-town visitor
who is most punctilious in the manner
in which he draws all the contracts
for the company of which he is presi-
dent. It appears that a short time
ago he came to Washington prepared
to close a deal involving a small
amount of money. When the papers
were finally typed he scanned them
carefully, and when about to affix his
signature he was asked by one of the
other parties of the deal to use his
fountain pen, as he wanted to keep it
as a souvenir of the occasion. Rather
appreciating the compliment, he did
so, and that night eatrained for Bos-
ton. A day or two after his arrival
home he had occasion to look up the
contract, and found, to his dismay.
that there were no signatures to the
agreement. His Washington friends
had simply made him use a fountain
pen that was filled with disappear-
ing ink.
plained to him by wire he
the following message: “Returning
with hy own ink. ‘The dinner is on
me.”—Washington Star.
Live Chicks Shipped Afar.
Through Ohio, Indiana and Iowa
hundreds of thousands of live chicks
but a few days out of their shells, are
i shipped to Manitoba, Canada, every
spring. The seasons are so late up
there, says Consul General Britain, in
a statement to the Department of
Commerce, that it is difficult to pro-
cure fertile eggs in sufficient quanti-
ties early enough to supply the de
mand for young chickens and to pro-
duce birds for breeding purposes. The
snow remains on the ground until
April and the chickens cannot get out
on their runs until late, and in order
to obtain young chicks at an early
date, large quantities are imported
from this country as early as March.
Heated cars keep the youngsters
warm, and, generally speaking, the loss
in consequence of the long haul and
bad weather is insignificant.
Petroleum Fires.
An American consular officer in
France has furnished some interesting
details concerning the manufacture
and use of petroleuin briguets as fuel.
It appears that these briquets weigh
only half as much as coal, and that
they produce twice as much heat. They
keep indefinitely in good condition, it
is said; are in no way dangerous, give
off no smoke or odor, and burn with
a very white flame, eight or ten inches
high. They consist of petroleum,
either crude or refined, mixed with cer
tain chemicals, the precise nature of
which is .a trade secret, and solidified
in molds under : pressure of 3
pounds per square inch,
X-Ray Replaces Radium,
That radium is a failure and that
many leading surgeons have discarded
it in favor of X-rays is the opinion ex-
pressed by Sir Thomas Parkinson, a
distinguished British surgeon, who was
consulting physician to the American
hospital for English soldiers, and who
‘s also physician to the prime min-
‘ster, Lloyd George.
He says that radium is not only
not effective as a remedy, it was posi-
fively dangerous, as its burning ef-
fect aggravated instead of curing mal-
adies,
Church Vessels Stolen.
Sacred vessels stolen from the Rus-
sian church in the Rue Darme, Paris,
were of considerable commercial as
well as intrinsic value. The vessels
were of silver and ornamented with
precious stones. They were originally
presented to the church by members
of the Russian imperial family. It is
believed that the thieves, who broke
open the cabinet in which the vessels
were kept, had hidden themselves in
the cellar of the church during the
service.
When the hoax was ex-| = 0 C0 ki
sort bask IE workingwomen, who knew
ET RIOR.
SAWFISH LOST TO AQUARIUM
Miami Beach Officials Had a Prize, but
the Nine Specimens Died in
Short Order.
The officials of the aquarium at
Miami Beach a short time ago en-
deavored to secure in a big net a por-
poise to see if it could be kept alive
in an outdoor tank, and when hauling
it in were surprised to find that a saw-
fish had become entagled. A success:
imen in alive, and it was placed in
the 36-foot tank inside of the aqua-
rium,
It was tempted with different varie-
ties of its natural food, but it would
not eat or move around in the tank,
excepting perhaps once in 24 hours it
would move a few feet but always
along the bottom. Four days after it
was placed in the tank it gave birth
to nine young, each about one foot
long, six inches of which was saw, and
nature had provided that each little
saw was inclosed in a glutinous veil,
thus protecting the mother and the
other offspring from the saws.
At the end of three weeks the moth-
er died, either from starvation or a
broken heart, but the liitle fellows,
knowing nothing else, hegan to eat
what was offered, little shreds of spiny
'chster and cut up mullets, thriving
and growing very nicely, not being in-
terfered with by the other fish, and
taking a good deal of exercise swim:
ung the length of the tank, generally
near the floor. After three months,
during which time they had grown to
a little more than two feet in length,
they were attacked by some sort of
parasite and one by one died.
ATTAIN AGE OF PATRIARCHS
Residents of Belgian Village Round
Out Century of Life as a Mat-
ter of Course.
That which Ponce de Leon vainly
sought seems to exist at Horchies, in
Hainaut, four miles from Mons, in the
midst of the coal and metallurgic re-
gion of Belgium. It is a village of
3,000 inhabitants, where almost every-
body reaches the age of the patriarchs.
They have just been celebrating, one
after another, two diamond weddings
(sixty, sometimes seventy-five, years
of married life) ; five golden weddings
(fifty years of married life), and the
one hundred and first anniversary of
a man, Francois Colin. But even this
centenarian does not constitute a phe
nomenon in this privileged community,
for there was born, in the last year of
the Eighteenth century, a woman who
saw the end of the Nineteenth century
and died only at the end of the first
| lustrum of the Twentieth century.
i It is noteworthy that the Methuse
| lahs of Horchies are all former work.
; neither the benefits of the eight-hour
day nor those of the anti-liquor laws.
Will Horchies, under the new regime
of the least effort and of the utter-
i most abstinence, remain the paradise
| of long life? In some fifteen or twenty
lustrums we shall know if they are
right—Exchange.
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Land of Caves.
The Shenandoah valley is achieving
a reputation for its caves. It has
a large collection of great ones and
innumerable smaller ones. Those of
Luray, in Page county, have been
known for some time, and have been
visited by thousands of persons from
ali over the world, but in recent years
other caves have been discovered and
opened which are just as notable and
interesting. They are Weyer’s cave,
in northern Augusta county; Endless
cavern, in Shenandoah county, and the
Shenandoah caverns, which were the
last to open. Some persons claim
that the latter are the most wonder
ful of the group. The reason for the
presence of these caves is that there
fs a great deal of soft limestone in
this vicinity, and the water has grad-
ually washed it away and left these
great holes.
Remarkable Golf Stroke.
Driving against odds of 100 to 1,
Capt. BE. C. Carter teed off perfectly
and put a golf ball over a castle wall
and won a remarkable wager. Cap-
tain Carter won the Welsh open cham-
pionship and immediately afterward a
fashionable lady golfer offered to wager
100 pounds to 1 that he couldn’t put
the ball to Harleck castle, a historic
structure of the Thirteenth century
standimg on a huge rock overlooking
the royal St. David's course. It is 200
rards from the nearest point on the
links to the battlements which are 200
feet above the level of the course.
Captain Carter's first attempt failed,
but he scored the second time.—Lon-
don Mail.
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Human Hair From China,
Human hair, obtained from the
heads of thousand of Chinese coolies,
recently arrived in a southern port in
a 50,000-pound shipment on the steam-
ship Hattie Lucenback. It is the first
consignment of a total shipment of
about 300,000 pounds of human hair
now en route to this port from China.
It is stated that the hair is to be used
in the manufacture of press cloth and
will take the place of camels’ hair for
this purpose.
Testing Wooden Crates.
The forest products laboratory of |
the forest service, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, was recently
called upon to test wooden crates that
would
army aircraft bombs. Seven types of
crate were tried in the experiment and
w® type was evolved that would not
only carry 800-pouisd bombs, but also
1.300-pound bombs.
be satisfactory for carrying’
ful effort was made to bring this spec- 1
o our multitude of customers
who helped us make 1922 a
success we extend greetings—
and wish each and every one a
Happy and Prosperous
New Year
We invite you to make our
store your buying place. Our
prices are always right, and we
aim to satisfy.
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