Bellefonte, Pa., March 16, 1923.
WILL INVESTIGATE OLD CITY
American Archeologists to Delve ints
. Site of Ancient Punic Strong-
hold of Carthage.
While the world is waiting with
bated breath for the complete reveisa-
tion promised by Lord caurnarvon’s
discovery in the sands of Egypt, it
learns of the intention of a number
of American supporters of archeo-
logical excavation to expend a sub-
stantial annual sum for ten years on
the investigation of the ancient Punic
city of Carthage. Half historical and
half mythical, Tyrlan Carthage—
which must not be confused with the
later ‘and flourishing Roman city of
the African fathers, of the Donatists,
and of Belisarlus—stands as no city
of ‘sweetness and light, but rather as a
type ‘of the commercial and, for all
the’ splendors which poetry and art
have woven about its fabric, of the
commonplace and the banausic. Arche-
ology, however, may correct this Im-
pression, though, when the spade has
performed its task, it may be ques-
tioned whether, after all, Carthage as
seen through the eyes of Virgil, Tur-
ner and Flaubert does not yet present
the more entrancing spectacle. Despite
Schleimann, the Scean gate is still
nearer to us in Homer than in the
ground plan of Hissarlik, and Aga-
memnon's palace is still rather to be
sought in the pages of Aeschylus than
on the modern site of excavated My-
cenae. But we would not underrate
the spadework of scholars, or its re-
snlts, . What was Crete, with Laby-
rinth and Minotaur, but a myth a
short time ago? What is it now if
not, Plato's Atlantis regained ?—New
York Tribune.
GUTENBERG BIBLE FOR SALE
Sald to Be Finest Example Left of
First. Book Printed by Me-
chanical Means.
Yrom Leipzig comes word that the
copy. of the famous Gutenberg Bible,
which is said to be the finest example
extant of the first book printed by me-
chanical means; is on the market, to
be sold to the highest bidder.
The Bible for years has reposed in
the Lelpzig museum of books. Its sale
at this time is forced because the mu-
seum is unable to continue its exist-
ence without new funds to cover Its
cost of maintenance.
This copy of the Gutenberg Bible was
presented to the state of Saxony by a
Dresden collector. The state, in turn,
vested the title in the Leipzig museum,
and this institution, at the present, is
prepared to pass on the heritage to the
highest bidder.
Artists of Germany, including Max |
Liebermann, Louis Corinth, and others,
are attempting to raise funds to cover
the deficit and save the book for Ger-
many. The value of the Leipzig Bible
i8 practically beyond appraisal. One
copy, in bad condition, was sold in 1911
for $500,000. All other examples
known -are damaged. This Leipzig
Bible alone is a perfect specimen, and,
for that reason, is most highly valued
of all these examples of the early
printing art.
Another Use for X-Ray.
The French investigators, who are
among the most ingenious, have dis-
covered that the X-ray furnishes 8
very ready means to detect stony im-
purities in coal. Now, carbon is very
arent to the Roentgen rays,
while silicia is opaque to them. Con-
sequently the silicates, which form
slag whén coal is burned, can be seen
like a skeleton when the shadow of
the coal is projected upon a florescent
screen, It is reported that this meth-
od 1s much in vogue in France.—
Washington Star.
His Opinion.
“] was reading in the paper last
night,” remarked Gabe Giggery, “thst
over there in Rooshy you can beg a
divorce as easy as buying a sack of
peanuts, and then get married in five
minutes, if you want to.”
““Well, I'll tell you,” replied Gsp
Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. “Judging
from the pictures I've seed of them
there Rooshian ladies, if I got a di
vorce from one of ‘em I shore wouldn't
want to marry another'n for sev’ral
days.”—Kansas City Star.
Had Assistance.
In the recent drive to raise money
for the Radcliffe endowment fund &n
alumna of that college employed two
small boys to sell soap. “Why are you
selling the soap?” inquired a lady at
a house on Johnnie's beat. “To raise
$3, for Radcliffe,” was the
prompt reply. “Three mollion dollars!”
the lady exclaimed, amused at the
youngster’s seriousness. “And are you
going to raise it all by yourself?" “No,
ma'am,” sald Johnnié, “there's another
little boy helping me.”
Yes, Quite Fair!
According to the New York Morning
Telegraph, Mr, John Barrymore, strell-
ing aimlessly through the Plaza receet-
ly, was encountered by an old friend.
“Why, Jack!” exclaimed the old friend.
“It's been such a long time since I've
seen you. How are you, anyway?’
Mr, Barrymore announced that he was
perfectly splendid, or sometihng to the
game effect. “But look here! Aren”
you opening in ‘Hamlet’ tonight? What
about it? “Well,” he remarked in a
noncommittal tome, “it’s a good part.”
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
Physician's Small Daughter Feit
Called Upon to Point Out Wher:
Daddy Had Erred.
The secretary to a prominent physi
cian and the Woman were out riding.
“Any interesting patients this
week?” the Woman asked.
“No. They were all really ill this
week,” said the secretary, “but Myra
is more interesting than ever.”
“Myra?”
“Oh, yes. I thought I'd told you
about her. She's the doctor's five-
year-old daughter, and she’s as pretty
as a picture and has an angelic dispo-
sition. She's simply mad about her
baby brother, who's not quite six
months old. This morning the baby
was having a terrible crying spell, and
the doctor left his office to go upstairs
to see what the trouble was. I heard
Myra at the foot of the stairs saying:
* ‘Daddy, brother's hungry, very
hungry. :
“A few minutes later the crying
ceased, and I heard the doctor com-
ing down the stairs. Myra must have
been waiting for him, for again I heard
her little piping voice:
“ ‘Daddy, did you give him some-
thing to eat?
‘“ ‘Sure,’ laughed the doctor.
him a ham sandwich.’
“Oh, daddy, you shouldn't,’
shrieked the child. ‘Don’t you know
the mustard will burn him? ’—Chi-
cago Journal,
REUNITED BY LONG DRESSES
Girl Friends Had Become “Incompatl-
ble” During the Time That Short
Skirts Had Reigned.
‘I gave
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“Have you and Grace had a row?”
asked Stella's friend while the bass
was in a conference and work was
slack,
“No,” replied Stella.
you ask?”
“I noticed you never go to lunch
with her, and if you are in a party
with her you never walk with her. You
used to be such chums, too.”
“Oh, we are still chums. She comes
up to my house often. Grace is aft
right.”
“Sure, she’s all right. But why do
you avoid her on the street?
“IIL. tell you. My legs are a trifle
too plump and Grace's are a trifle tov
thin. ‘We each suffer by contrast,
Then my legs bow out and Grace's
bow in. This makes the deviation
from the straight line more pro-
nounced when they are side by side.
My brother told us we looked funny
walking down the street. We got
in front of a big mirror and saw that
he was right. Until we begin wear-
ing long skirts Grace and I agreed
to avoid walking side by side. We
feel we have given New York enough
smiles already.”—New York Sun.
“What makes
Huge Sums Spent on Love Nest.
Many thousands of dollars were
spent during the last few weeks =»
make a beautiful love nest for Hur
old ¥. McCormick and his bride.
Ganna Walska, before they returned
to New York.
Mme. Walska’s mansion on Eas:
Ninety-fourth street has been deco
rated from top to bottom, each of the
43 rooms being entirely renovated, :
beautiful Japanese garden has been
built in the entrance hall, six van
loads of costly furniture have been
trundled in and the mansion has been
given a new coat of battleship gray
paint.
The whole lower floor of the man-
slon is a dazzling display of luxurious
red and sea blue draperies ane
throughout the mansion are scattered !
beautiful and priceless gifts of the
former husband's and admirers of her
beauty and of her voice.
Sandy Loams Fight Frost.
The truck farmer who selects soil in
which there is a sandy component, is
in less danger of damaging frosts than
if he has loam or clay soil, according
to the United States weather burean.
Moreover, if he keeps his land weir
drained of surplus moisture and free
from weeds, he is less liable to the
damaging effects of severe tempera-
tures.
Experiments show there is a reiy-
tion between the temperature of soit
and the minimum temperature of the
air, in that sandy soils store up muen
heat during the day and give this oir
at night, raising the temperature of
the air above it.—Popular Sclence
Monthly.
Transparent Rubber,
Some British inventors have sue-
ceeded In obtaining a preparation of
rubber which ix as trunsparent as
glass and sufficiently elastic to be non-
breakable. Struck by a ball, for in-
stance, the rubber yields slightly and
returns to its former condition. Of
course, a heavy missile of jagged shape
will tear the sheet, but it then has the
advantage that it will not splinter as
glass does. It is also said to make an
excellent lining for garments where if
is desired to have them waterproof.
The material will be also made up in-
to bathing caps.
To Open 6,500-Mile Tour.
The official opening of the Banff-
Windermere motor highway through
the Canadian Rockies has been set for
June 30, when the last link in the
5,600-mile scenic tour through west-
ern Canada and the United States will
be thrown open to traffic. . The road
93 miles long, passes through tke
heart of the rockies and virgin moun.
tain and forest country. The average
cost was $7,000 per mile, but in the
rock cuts the cost reached $27,000 per
mile,
VOICE MUST BE CULTIVATED
Toacher Asserts That Every Persor
Has Ability to Be More or Less
: a Good Singer.
It has been stated by a leading sing |
ing teacher that we all would have & |
good voice if it were cultivated, but
still some voices would be better than
others. There is a reason why we dc
not all have really fine voices. The
“sound box,” as it were, of our body
is the larynx, or as most people call
It, the “Adam’s Apple.” Across this
stretch our two vocal chords, like the
strings of a violin, thick for a bass,
thin for a tenor, and so on. The “bow”
that strikes these chords is, of course,
our own breath, and the different notes |
are produced by the moving of certain |
muscles at the base of the larynx.
Just as the tone of a violin depends |
largely upon the. body of the instru |
ment, so even perfect vocal chords are
of little use unless our body contains
a sufficient space, properly laced, for
their tone to echo in; resonating cavl-
ties, we call them. We therefore need
for the best voice a perfect sound box
and perfect chords, plus fully devel
oped “resonating cavities,” and good
muscles to work the larynx.
Added to this, our mouth and tongue
must be placed in precisely the best
position for our particular notes. Per-
fect health is needed for the breath
that is our “bow,” a perfect ear to dis-
tinguish the slightest variation of tone,
and finally a long and expensive train |
ing to enable us to work every part of
our sound-machine to the best advan:
tage. Given all these factors, we have
the perfect singer. Short in any one
of them, we have a less perfect singer!
—Exchange,
REVEAL LIFE OF PAST AGES
Relics Gathered in Collection in Pales:
tine Museum Are of Interest
to All Civilization.
During the two years that have
elapsed since the department of an-
tiquities was founded at the instance
of the high commissioner, 7,223 ob
jects have been catalogued, of which
a selection has been displayed, with
due regard to date and provenance,
and the Palestine museum In Jerusa-
lem is now open dally to the public.
The present accommodation is not al-
together suitable, nor is it convenient
for visitors; but the beginning has
been made.
The total value of antiquities ex-
ported under license during this pe-
riod amounts only to a few thousand
dollars, says a Palestine letter to the
New York Morning Telegraph. As
the national collection becomes more
complete, the proportion of antiqui-
ties released for export to foreign mu-
seums will automatically increase. In
the province of the inspectors 1,467
historical sites and monuments have,
been formally registered, and meas-
ures have been taken to protect them, |
with the collahoration of the police
and ‘gendarmerie,
To Restore Izaak Walton's Home.
Fisherman and sportsmen, both in
the United States and England, are co-
operating to restore the cottage of
Izaak Walton, prince of anglers, as a
shrine for followers of the rod and ree!
the world over. The cottage is at
Shallowford, England, six miles from
Stafford.
The American leaders In the project
are relatives and friends of the late
Julien Tappan Davies, attorney and
trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance
company. Mr. Davis was widely
known as a fisherman and sportsman.
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mustard Bears the
Ma). T. A. Dunn and other officials |
of Stafford, the birthplace of Walton,
are carrying on the drive in England
for an endowment fund for the little
cottage, which, under the terms of Wal-
ton’s will, was left to the town for
philanthropic uses.—New York Sun.
War Against Pine Beetle.
A crusade against the pine beetle
that has been causing so much destrue-
tion in the yellow-pine districts of the
Northwest, as to alarm several gov-
ernment agencies and a number of
private interests, is reported to have
reduced the infestation about 50 per
cent during 1922, This work, which is
under the supervision of the bureau of
entomology, consists of locating and
felling all infested trees, and it is ex-
pected to result in the saving of over
| $87,000 worth of lumber during the
next three years, over and above the
cost of the work. On a million acres
as yet untreated, the loss from this
pest is now $300,000 a year.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Museum Shows Ancient Customs.
One of the recent attractions added
to the historic city of Lourdes, which
has been the scene of many pilgrim-
nges for the cure of physical ills, is a
museuin to illustrate the old customs
of the natives in that region of France.
Six halls in the museum are reserved
for a permanent exhibition of the fur-
niture and costumes of the Pyreneean
people, the equipment of their artisans
(weavers, potmakers, shepherds, hunt-
ers, fishers, etc.) and their characteris-
tic footwear. In other rooms are dis-
played botanical, geological and ento-
mological collections, also painting,
sculpture and applied arts of the re-
sion.
Pen Picture of Popular Author.
H. G. Wells is described by a con-
temporary journalist as being almost
shrilly voutbful, with a high-pitched
voice and vehement temperament, He
is a stocky little man with a bristling
mustache and a bristling attitude. He
is further said to be incredibly indus
tricus, fond of friendship, and a per-
fect host.
An Alarming Mistake.
After a whole day of golfing and
an evening of motoring Ruth's skin
was irritated from the combined ef-
fects of sun and wind; so she liberally
applied “cold cream” to her face and
settled herself for a good night's rest.
In a short time, however, her face
began to feel stiff and drawn. “At
last,” Ruth thought, “my end has come.
I have paralysis!”
Her nervousness increased when her
fingers became unmanageable, and her
skin began to crack and snap. She
hastily turned on the light and found
her face alarmingly waxy and shiny.
What could be the cause? Finally
she rushed for the tube of cold cream.
It was labeled “Library Paste.”
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Electric Dogs.
The electric dog that will follow a
luatern in the dark—the mechanical
i curio constructed by John Hays Ham-
. mond, Jr.—has a rival in French elec-
ivi dog that will jump out of its ken-
vel when a whistle sounds.
The Hammond dog is centrolled by
selenium cells. The amount of elec-
tricity that will pass through selenium
varies with the amount of light shin-
ing on the metal. With a selenium
cell for each eye of the dog and a
simail electric gear inside the toy the
dog will steer its course so as to have
an equal amount of light on each eye,
which means that it will keep its head
toward any light. Storage batteries
and a motor, or clockwork, may be
weed for moving the dog.
For Infants and Children.
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25 doz. Silk Hose (Ladies’ Black), regular $1.50 quality—
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