Demonic Ji
Bellefonte, Pa., January 19, 1923.
WRONG IDEAS ABOUT ALASKA
Winters There Are Mild, Thermometer
in Region of Juneau Barely
Reaching Zero.
I met a family in Juneau, Alaska,
that had formerly resided in Cleve-
land. I asked the lady of the house if
it wasn't somewhat difficult to stand
the rigors of the northern climate,
writes Sherman Rogers in the Outlook.
She laughed outright,
“Well,” she answered, “we endured
Cleveland winters, and Juneau is cer-
tainly a paradise compared with Cleve-
land, either in winter or summer. We
have been north eight years in all;
spent five winters here, and three
back home; the five years we have
lived here during the winter months
the thermometer has never reached
zero. Do you imagine it takes a rig-
orous person to stand such a climate?”
This was followed by peals of luugh-
ter and further remarks about the
silly ideas of people in the States re-
garding the climate of Alaska.
Southeastern Alaska has an Oregon-
Washington climate, due to the Jap-
anese current, which has the same ef-
fect from Ketchikan to Cape Spencer
as it has on Puget sound, resulting in
very mild winters and extremely de-
lightful summers. Very seldom, in the
last 20 years, has the thermometer
reached zero in this entire section.
The interior of Alaska, made famous
by exaggerating novelists, has a cli-
mate closely duplicating Minnesota in
the winter, and Maine or Oregon in
summer.
GREAT WRITERS’ YOUNG DAYS
Tales Told of Two Authors Who Have
Risen to Eminence in Liter-
ary World.
Mr. Rudyard Xipling was in the
habit of selling his old schoolbooks ta
a dame who kept a curiosity shop at
Bideford. In recent years many peo-
ple have visited the shop, hoping to
pick up a volume with an early com-
position of the great man scrawled in
the margin. They have been disgust-
ed to hear that the old dame rubbed
out everything of the kind.
“No,” she said, on one occasion,
“Master Kipling was always fair to
me, and he may have written things
not so good as those he has sold since.
I wasn’t going to have them poking
fun at him.” Which shows the popu-
larity Mr.
schooldays.
Another great writer, Sir James
Barrie, has a good story to tell of his
young days. It was at the time of his
first success, and an old townswoman
of Kirriemuir, Barrie’s native place,
was asked what she thought of it.
“Weel,” she replied, cautiously, “it’s
a gude thing the laddie can mek some-
thing at his writin"; he could never
have made a leevin’ at th’ mills!”
Knew Just Where He Was.
Whimsical Walker, the famous
clown, has followed the prevailing
fashion and written his recollections,
swvhich naturally abound with theatrical
shop talk. Among his reminiscences
of Drury lane—the street, not the
theater—is the following: “I was on
speaking terms with an undertaker
there and he once invited me into his
shop and brought out a bottle. I sat
myself down on something covered
with black cloth and we hobnobbed
together in friendly fashion. The un-
dertaker was an enthusiastic theater:
goer. He knew a host of ‘stars’ by
sight and had acquaintance with a few
of the lesser lights. We talked theat-
rical ‘shop,’ and I happened to ask the
undertaker if he knew what had be
come of a certain actor whom I men-
tioned by name. ‘Yes, said the man,
composedly, ‘youre a-sitting on him
now!”
Lead World in Corn Production.
Approximately 80 per cent of the |
corn entering into world trade comes
from Argentina and the United States.
according to information compiled by
the United States Department of Agri
culture. In 1921 shipments from the
United States exceeded those from
Argentina by 21,000,000 bushels, but
prior to that year Argentina was
usually the larger shipper, average ex:
ports from that country before the
war (1909-1913) having been between
one-third and one-half of all corn en-
tering into world trade and about twa
and one-half times the quantity ex
ported by the United States.
Fine Art of Pussyfooting.
“1d like to adopt a political career,”
said the ambitious young man, “bui
Fm no orator and I don’t believe I'd
ever learn how to make a good
speech.”
“You don't need to, son,” replied
the veteran campaigner. “Some of
the smoothest political strategy this
country has ever witnessed was pul
ovédr in a whisper.”—Birminghan
Age-Herald.
Increased Output of Lorraine Mines
Statistics just nublished show tha
the mines of (1: Lorraine basin ex
ported during the first six months of
the present ycar 4,328,455 tons of min
eral ore, valued at £1,800,000, a:
agoinet 2ACR 422 tons. valued at £1,
100,000, for the corresponding perioc
of last year.—London Times.
——The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
Kipling enjoyed in his.
| DIAMOND NOT NOW SUPREME
Scientists Have Put Fecrward Prod-
ucts Which Rival Famous Pre-
cious Stone in Hardness.
The diamond has always been re-
garded as possessing one quality
which placed it beyond rivalry, name-
ly, that of hardness. There are sever-
al gems which compete with it in beau-
ty. and at least one, the ruby, when
of rare size and quality, outranks it
in costliness. But none in the whole
list equals it in hardness.
“Diamond cut diamond” is a popu-
lar saying. The hardest steel cunnot
equal the diamond in that respect.
The diamond, the text-books used to
declare, “is the hardest substance
known.”
But science progresses, and if na-
tu e has set aside for her king of
gems the distinction of unparalleled
hardness, the art of man has not been
equally considerate. There are sev-
eral products of chemical experiment
which have proved, it is claimed, to
be as hard as diamonds,
These are produced from the rare
metal titanium. One investigator suc-
ceeded in preparing titanium in the
electric furnace. In the pure form it
is harder than steel or quartz, and
when conibined with silicon or boron,
so as to form a silicide or boride of
titanium, it matches the diamond it-
self in hardness.
Titanium resembles tin in its chem-
ical properties, and it is the charac-
| teristic element in the beautiful red
{ and brown crystals of rutile. These.
(in the shape of needles, are some-
i times found penetrating large white
quartz crystals. forming gems that
{ the French call “love's arrows.”’—
1 Washington Star.
|
RIVAL THE NATURAL PEARL
titi “Gems,” Cheaply Produced,
| Said to Be as Beautiful as the
| Real Ones.
| It appears that the lining of a pearly
i mussel shell or of a pearl oyster is
precisely the same material as that
which composes the pearl itself. Coat
buttons and other articles made of
this “mother-of-pearl” are very beau-
{ tiful, and would bring high prices but
‘for the fact that the material is so
| common.
To make artificial pearls, clear moth-
er-of-pearl is reduced to a fine pow-
der and mixed with rosin, shellae,
'stearin and a little pigment to afford
“color,
This is the process devised by a
'westerner who possesses much knowl-
‘edge of the pearling industry of the
Middle West.
A New Jersey man has invented =a
process to make imitation pearls from
beads of highly polished silver coated
with a translucent cellulose varnish
that contains a little white pigment.
Light rays reflected through the coat-
‘ing from the mirror-like surface be-
neath afford a pearl-like eftect.
| The most familiar artificial pearls
‘of commerce are globules ot glass
!lined with a substance derived from
‘the scales of a fish called the bleak.
i It is to this substance that the irides-
"cence of the scales of many species of
jshes is due.—Exchange.
Roosevelt's Two “Red Rags.”
Dr. John H. Richards, Colonel
Roosevelt's physician during his last
illness, writes in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post:
| On my first visit to Oyster Bay it
was considered necessary to take
blood from Colonel Roosevelt's arm
for a chemical examination. He in-
sisted on standing while this was be-
ing done, in spite of the fact that his
ankles were acutely inflamed at the
time,
While the needle was being insert-
"ed he was joking with Doctor Swartz
and Dr. W. Martin, who were in the
‘room with us, and I, fearing lest he
should move his arm, thereby making
another vein puncture necessary, said:
“Please do not move your arm, so that
i] shall not misplace the needle.”
{ “All right,” he answered, “but don’t
anyone mention Wilson or the kaiser.”
It Wasn't Hubby.
One night while at a dance I was
introduced to a dashing young man by
my husband. We stood talking for
some time, and I turned to talk to
some one else, and as the music
started I turned around and, not look-
ing to see whom 1 was taking hold
of, I said: “Well, honey, aren't we
going to have this dance?’ I found I
had grabbed this young man and that
my husband was talking to some one
else.—Chicago Tribune,
A Quirk Retreat.
“I have here. sir,” began the brisk
agent, “a device which—"
“Jobson,” yelled Mr. ‘Wadleigh,
“what do you mean by lefting this
fellow get into my private office? If
I have to throw him out you'll go
with him.”
“1 have here, sir,” continued the
agent, “my hand on the door knob,
which I am turning for the purpose
of letting myself out. Good day, sir.”
~—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Starting Out,
“Have you ever had any business
experience?’ asked the self-made man.
“No, sir,” replied the brisk appli-
cant for a job. “I'm just out of col-
lege. But I have a diploma.”
“Well, you look like an intelligent
man "TY ton von a tpg]?
“Thank you, sir. What's the first
thing you want me to do?”
“The first thing I want you to do
is to forget that diploma.”’—Birming-
ham Age-HeralA.
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FICTION WRITERS TO BLAME
Girl With Experience Is Disillusioned
Conce ning Qualities of the
“Strong, Silent Man.”
“Deliver me,” said the girl with ex-
perience, “from any more of these
strong, silent men. They make very
good fiction heroes, but personally I
prefer a mun whose chief claim to
strength does not lie in his breaking
all records for silence. I like a man
who knows the value of a pause or a
moment in which no one says any-
thing, but in which unutterable things
are felt.
“A man who shatters a time like
that, or doesn’t even know when it
comes along, is, as we say, ‘impossi-
ble If there's anything worse than
a female chatterbox, it’s a male chat-
terbox, but that’s no reason why a man
can’t answer ‘Yes’ when you say, ‘Isn't
it a lovely day? without thinking that
he is violating a secret.
“Writers are to blame, I believe, for
building up the fictionally perfect, but
realistically terrible, type of man,
whose stock in trade is an enigmatical
smile. Consequently, every man who
is shy, bashful or stupid feels that he
has an excellent alibi. A girl who is
not versed in the ways of men. but
knows her story books backward and
forward, is led to believe that the man
who listens alike to her prattling, her
small talk and her profoundest re-
marks with a mere quirk to the left
side of his mouth, is a fiction hers
come to life. After a season or two, de-
pending on her perspicacity, she knows,
alas, that he is generally just a very
dull man. Of course, if he is dull, it's
much better that he should be dumb as
well. The only pity is that he appears,
at first, to be what he decidedly is
not.”
TAKE THEIR PLEASURE NOW
Young Chicago Couple Evidently Be-
lieves in Verse, “Gather Ye Roses
While Ye May.”
The Woman knows a couple who've
just gone abroad. The husband is a
young writer who earns a very mod-
erate income and the wife is an artist
who receives small returns.
“We're just going to enjoy ourselves
for six weeks or two months,” they
told the Womap. “You see we had a
little saved up and we were going to
struggle to save more by great econo-
my and self-denial. And then we
talked to one of our neighbors. He
used to be as poor as we are—once.
And by stinting and scraping and wise
investment he is a well-to-do man now.
“We asked him why he didn’t travel
and he said he had always meant to
and, vet, while he was young, he felt
he should be saving for the future.
And now that he has saved—it was
saved with such self-denial that he
just can’t go out and spend it. He took
a little trip this summer, but came
back in a week—he couldn't bear to
see the money which had been accu-
mulated by small amounts go out in
big ones.
“So we made up our minds that we’d
travel when we could enjoy it, and not
wait for the days when our enthusiasm
and our nerve at money-spending
would be gone.”—Chicago Journal.
Records Patient’s Rest.
Recording contiuously the slightest
movements of a patient in bed, and
thereby determining the hours of com-
plete and untroubled rest he has had,
is an idea recently introduced. This re-
sult is obtained by first placing a sheet
of rubber beneath one of the bed
posts and attaching special apparatus
to the post. The apparatus consists,
briefly, of a lever, one end of which is
fastened to the bed post, the other
having a recording pen affixed to it.
Underneath the pen is located a clock-
work drum containing a chart divided
into 24 hours, so that a continuous
curve of the sleeper’s movements is
kept and may be consulted if it is de-
sired to ascertain how he has rested,
or to convince a patient that he has
ur.derrated his hours of rest.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Motortruck Used by Loggers.
Nothing is more characteristic of
logging as it was done from 1800 to
1900 than the sight of a huge truck,
piled high with logs, and hauled
through the muck and over the cor-
duroy of the woods trails by four, six,
or even more husky horses. If there
is one place in the world where a
truck might be expected to fail, it is
here. But with the right kind of equip-
ment it seems just as easy to get the
logs out by gas as by horse; and there
need be no argument over the proposi-
tion that, if it can be done at all by
gas, it can be done more cheaply so.—
Scientific American.
Municipal Camps Grow in Favor,
Counties such as Gila county, Ariz.
and Fresno and Mariposa counties,
Cal., and cities such as Denver, Salt
Lake City, Los Angeles and Butte,
now have programs of county or mu-
nicipal development which provide for
maintaining county or municipal
camps and camp grounds within the
national forests, This growing use
means for the national forests new op-
portunities of service of immeasurable
public value,
Giant Tree Many Centuries Old.
A giant pinaceous timber tree in-
digenous to New Zealand, locally called
Kauri, has heen discovered in the
northern forest. It has a trunk 22
feet in diameter and 66 feet in girth,
and it rises 70 feet clear of branches.
The tree contains 195,000 superficial
feet of timber and is estimated to be
2,000 years old.
GREAT SINGERS WERE MINERS
Underground Worksrs Have Core
tributed Largely to the Ranks
of Famous Operatic Artists.
A foreign dispatch calls attention to
a wonderful phenomenon which has
been manifesting itself in the coal
fields of Belgian and in other mining
districts. From the ranks of the
miners, the underground, molelike
workers, there has come a series of
great singers, not just one or two, but
a number. The great Dufresne,
Bouilliez, Ansseau of ,the Opera
Comique of Paris, Descamps, a fa-
mous Faust, and many others were
all miners. Of couse, we all know of
the unusual rise to fame of the rol-
licking Harry Lauder, whose irre-
pressible lilting mirth had its origin
in a Scotch mine. But these conspicu-
cus examples are not all, It is re-
ported that in the coal mines of Liege
the men have the habit of singing as
they work, and often with magnifi-
cent effect.
Press agents for the great singers
have been fond of telling how they
learned their art from the birds. It
is their favorite story. But these
miners have no such inspiration. As
far away as possible from the blue
sky, the free air, the music of the
birds and the leaves and the winds
and the sea, they still dream of and
produce music. It seems paradoxical.
But the human soul has its own music,
as well as the winds and birds and
other phenomena of nature. Possibly,
it is all the easier for this human
barmony to escape in expression
when it is uninterrupted by music
from without.—Ohio State Journal.
KILL GULLS WITH MATCHES
Birds Are Poisoned in Search for
Food Along Thames Embank-
ment at London.
Proof that the average Londoner is
ardently fond of birds was furnished
n short time ago when the report of
the untimely death of several score
of gulls out of the thousands that
daily flutter over the foggy Thames
was given prominent space in the
metropolitan newspaper§ and calied
forth general indignation.
One of the oldest customs in Lon-
don is the feeding of the gulls along
the Thames embankment, where hun-
ilreds of persons daily stand, throwing
breadcrumbs into the air and watch-
Ing the swirling gulls catch the mor-
sels on the wing with uncanny ac-
«uracy.
The other day the bodies of a num-
ver of gulls were found floating in
the river. An investigation disclosed
that some person, instead of throwing
breadcrumbs to the birds, had fed
them matches, the phosphorus ends
of which poisoned them.
Research in South America.
The Field Museum of Natural His-
tory is equipping six expeditions. Two
will gather geological specimens from
Brazil to Patagonia, while two others
will study plant and animal life in
Peru. Archeological investigations will
be pursued in Colombia and the Isth-
mus of Panama, and another party
takes up the ethnology of the Malay
peninsula. The gems and minerals of
Brazil and the silver, copper, nitrate
and vanadium deposits of Peru and
Bolivia will be carefully explored.
Specimens of pre-historic vertebrate
life will be sought in the Santa Cruz
beds, and the great ground sloth and
the pampas horse may be represented
in the finds. The archeological expe-
dition aims at solving some of the
mysterious interrelations of ancient
civilizations and may prove a connect-
ing link between the Maya and the
Inca.—Scientific American.
American Corn in Europe.
Less corn was imported in 1921 by
the United Kingdom, France and Bel-
gium than during pre-war years, ac-
cording to information compiled by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. In 1921 the United Kingdom
took 78,000,000 bushels, compared with
an average of 83,000,000 bushels dur-
ing the five pre-war years, 1909-1913;
France took 17,000,000 bushels, com-
pared with 19,000,000 bushels; and
Belgium, 19,000,000. compared with
26,000,000.
Canada and the Scandinavian coun-
tries, however, imported more corn in
1921 than during the pre-war years,
Denmark’s imports totaling 19,000,000
bushels, an increase of over 70 per
cent.
Long Amateur Radio Message.
All long distance records for ama-
teur radio transmission were shai-
tered during the transatlantic tests of
the American Radio Relay league,
when the signals of two amateur sta-
tions were picked up in mid-Pacifie,
7,000 nautical miles distant, by R. E.
Roesch, radio operator on board the
steamship Easterner, it was announced |
Hartford, '
at league headquarters,
tShoes! Shoes!:
Less than Half Price
I have four lines of La-
dies’jHigh Tan Russian
Calf Shoes, regular sale
price $10.00.
These Shoes are now on
sale at
$4.00 per Pair.
Yeager's Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
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Pre-Inventory....
(learance Sale
Still On!
For the next 10 DAYS we will offer our
ENTIRE WINTER STOCK at cost and less.
We quote just a few of the many bargains.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Winter Coats, Suits
and Dresses, all colors ; special, $4.65.
Slip-over Sweaters, only $1.75.
Ladies’ Silk Hose, black and white, only
95 cts.
Ladies’ Woolen Hose, 75 cts.
All Linen Bleached Table Damask, 72
inches wide, $1.25. ]
GLOVES.
Conn. The stations heard were those '
of W. D. Reynolds, Denver, Colorado,
and W. A. C. Hemrich of Aberdeen,
Washington.
Government Lumber in Alaska.
Ladies Wool Golf Gloves, now 75 cts.
Eighty-six per cent of the lumber .
used in Alaska is cut from the govern-
ment forests, and Sitka spruce from
the Tongass national forest is finding
an outlet in the markets of the world.
The sawmill at Wrangell during the
past: summer made a shipment of 45,-
000 feet, board measure, of Sitka
spruce for the London market, and an-
other lot of 450,000 feet, board meas-
ure, was shipped from Wrangell
through Prince Rupert to eastern
points,
You cannot afford to miss these great
reductions. Seeing is believing. Come in.
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