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Bellefonte, Pa., April 6, 1923.
TONGUES CLASH IN BELGIUM
Flemish-Speaking Elements Win Point
Against Their Countrymen Whose
Language Is French,
National divisions are growing more
acute in Belgium, says a writer in the
Living Age. The Flemish-speaking
provinces, already insurgent against
the French-speaking Brussels govern-
ment before the war, and encouraged
in this attitude during the German oc-
cupation, are more insistent upon their
rights than ever.
Parliament recently refused to erect
a Flemish university at Antwerp. But
the minister of education, apparently
without the endorsement of all his col-
feagues, submitted a bill to parliament
providing that “at the University of
Ghent instruction shall be given in
Flemish; it shall be given in French
and Flemish in the schools of civil en-
gineering, arts and manufactures.”
This bill was adopted by a vote of
89 against 85, with seven abstentions—
figures suggesting the equal division
of sentiment over a question that, if
we are to credit newspaper headlines,
has aroused passions that have
brought the people to the verge of
violence.
The neutral and Protestant Journal
de Geneve regards the action of the
Belgian parliament as a “regrettable
setback to Latin culture,” likely to
accentuate “discords of race, language,
and even of religion” in that country.
It will be recalled that the Flemings
are strongly clerical.
NEVER USED BY EMPEROR
Luxurious Private Railroad Car Built
for Maximilian of Mexico Is
Still in Existence.
On a sidetrack of the Mexican rail-
way in Vera Cruz there rests one of
the most historic private cars on the
continent. It was built to order for
Emperor Maximilian of Mexico more
than sixty years ago. So solid was its
construction that it is still in fairly
presentable condition, despite its
weather-beaten exterior.
During the recent revolutionary
period it was used as the private car
of army officers. Finally it found its
way back to Vera Cruz, where it was
shunted onte a remote siding to re-
main forgotten until discovered the
other day by an official of the road.
Although the car was built for
Emperor Maximilian, the ill-fated
ruler never get to ride in it. When
it arrived in Vera Cruz, a year before
his downfall, conditions were so bad
that it could not be sent to Mexico
City. Tt was used later by President
Juarez, who signed the death warrant
of Maxmilian and succeeded him as
ruler of Mexico.
Teakwood, brought from India, was
used in its construction. It was built
in France and received in this coun-
try in the early part of 1865. On the
outside it presented the appearance
of one of the English compartment
cars:
Wonderful Ice Formation.
Under blessing of a visit from Our
Lady of Guadalupe, Yosemite National
park is going to have one of the hap-
piest and most prosperous years in its
history.
This was the news spread abroad
several days ago by distinguished visi-
tors from Mexico who discovered a
perfect likeness of Mexico's patron
saint in the ice which forms on the
cliff every night from the spray of
Yosemite falls. The face is perfectly
outlined. The body is swathed in the
flowing robe of a Sister of Charity and
the arms are crossed on the breast.
“Nuestra Senora de la Guadalupe!”
exclaimed the first Mexican who
glimpsed the famous cataract after his
arrival. He called his friends and they
agreed that the natural formation was
one of the best they had ever seen.
The image must be fully 1,000 feet
high, as it extends nearly the entire
length of the first drop of Yosemite
falls, which is 1,430 feet.
When She's Away.
“The wife's away,” said the man
‘who wore a sort of run-down look.
“And I've been cooking my own break-
fasts. The thing that gets me is how
in the name of goodness a person can
cook three things, excluding coffee,
and have them all done at the same
ttime? I'll tell the waiting world that
to do it is a gift. If that woman
doesn't come back soon I'll be blis-
“tered in every exposed part of my
* body from hot flying grease. Did you
« ever try first to cook bacon, then drop
+ an egg into the spider and fry it in the
“hot bacon grease? Do it, and I'll bet
if you never uttered a cuss in your
life you'll begin right then.’—Detroit
News.
Didn’ Know How to Use It.
It happened the other night at the
theater. The young couple had dis-
turbed everybody around them by
their whispering and murmuring.
Folks ‘frowned and growled but they
talked on. Until suddenly the young
man stopped and began to dig around
on the floor for something.
Then he nudged the man in front
of him, “I've lost my muffler some
place,” he said.
“Let it alone,” the man growled
back. “You didn't know how to use
{t when you did have it, judging from
the noises I've been hearing back
there.”—Indianapolls News.
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AK UICTIUNARY MAUVE PUBLIC
Rules That Flyers Should Have at
Their Finger Tips While Navigat-
ing the Upper Regions.
A standard dictionary of the air lan.
guage under the title of “Nomencla-
ture for Aeronautics” has just been
published by the mnational advisory
committee for aeronautics in Wash-
ington.
Among some of the new terms pre-
scribed by the committee are the fol-
lowing:
“Airway,” an aerial highway be-
tween three or more cities, marked
and equipped with fields and radio sta-
tions.
“Airport,” a terminal of an airway,
with tracts of water and land for
alighting, shops and hangars.
“Amphibian,” an airplane designed
to rise from and alight on either land
or water.
Most motorcar operators will expect
that “gassing” means filling the fuel
tanks of an aircraft, but it applies to
replenishing the envelopes or contain-
Ing bags, lighter-than-air craft with
fresh lifting gas such as hydrogen or
helium, to compensate for leakage.
The filling of an empty balloon with
gas is known as “inflation.”
Gender has practically been elimi-
nated from terms used in flying. A
“pilot” today is either a man or wom-
an operator of an aircraft. The term
applies to both heavier and lighter-
than-air operations. The old terms
“aviator” and “aeronaut” are discard-
ed. “Aviatrix” was never approved
of officially,
FIND IT HARD TO BE QUIET
According to Critic, the Ordinary
American Knows Little About
Sitting at His Ease.
The ability to sit quiet is not too
common among Americans. For some
reason many people find it easier to
talk if they pluck at the upholstered
arm of the chair in which they sit, or
twist a corner of the sofa cushion, or
swing one foot in listless motion, or
play with a pencil or a paper cutter
or some other object. Fidgeting is a
disagreeable habit; the other person
finds his attention becoming more and
more fixed upon the repetition of
meaningless mechanical movements
and more and more distracted from
other matters.
Because fidgeting raises in this way
a barrier to easy social intercourse, it
handicaps the person who fidgets. More-
over, it expresses lack eof poise and
self-control. Restfulness is of the es-
sence of dignity. The person who has
not trained himself to sit and talk
without any undue - nervous move-
ments of the fingers and feet has not
really achieved complete mastery over
his fingers and feet. A good rule to
observe with regard to those members
is to use them when they ought to be
used and at all other times to insist
upon their being quiet.—Youth's Com
panion,
“Biggest Air Post.”
Le Bourget, near Paris, is now
dignified with the title of largest and
most important airport in the world.
No less than 4,812 passenger and
freight airplanes were used in the
various services during 1922,
In 1920 the number of passengers
carried was 10,215; in 1922 the num-
ber had almost doubled—19,974. An
average of 65 passengers daily took
their places in air expresses for desti-
nations all over Europe. A total of
463 tons of express were carried in
1922—an augmentation of 385 per cent
over 1920. Compared with 1919, when
the port was opened, the increase is of
2,200 per cent. Postal packets aug-
mented to the extent of 143 per cent
during the year.
Lines from Paris go to London.
Tours, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin,
Strasbourg, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna,
Budapest, Morocco, Spain, Nice,
Bucharest, Trieste, Sofia, and new fast
expresses will start soon for Constan-
tinople. The trip will take two days.
Lauds American Colleagues.
“America is ahead of Europe in brain
and nerve surgery and the American
surgeons work with remarkable skill
and precision.” Thus speaks Einar
Key, head physician of the Mario hos-
pital in Stockholm, and one of Sweden's
best known surgeons, upon returning
from a three months’ trip to the United
States, where he had visited leading
hospitals and observed the work of the
most eminent surgeons.
While in America Doctor Key lec-
tured at a medical congress arranged
by the American College of Surgeons
in Boston. He visited large clinics in
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Buf-
falo, Cleveland, Baltimore, Syracuse
and other places. He declares that
American hospitals have better labora-
tory facilities than those in Europe,
while he finds the Swedish hospitals, as
a rule are brighter and more cheerful
than those of America.
The Church Cow.
A Presbyterian church in North Caro-
ilna has just bought a cow! The church
carries on a large work in the “poor
section” of the town, where many
children need pure, fresh milk, but are
not able to secure it. The church hires
out the cow to poor families with small
rhildren at very reasonable rates. The
cow gives about four gallons a day,
which is sufficient for seven families.
These families usually have enough
small boys to herd the cow on the pub-
lic commons and to see that each fam-
ily gets its share. The experiment is
Ro successfuul that the money secured
Yor the hire of the cow is being laid
aside for the purchase of another cow.
—Jl.ondon Post.
CALLS FOR CAREFUL WORK
“Miners” Who Dig for Specimens of
Extinct Animals for Museums
Must Be Experts,
Few persons contemplating the re.
markable specimens of extinct animals
to be seen in some museums realize
the amount of work which has been
entailed in the uncovering and prepa-
ration of these specimens. In the first
place, a well-equipped expedition is
generally sent out to look for these
bones, and many miles are sometimes
covered in the search of a likely spot
for operations. Even then tons of sand
are carefully moved often without un-
covering the bones that are being
sought,
The removal of the soil can be done
only by those who are familiar with
the work, for an inexperienced hand
could readily do much damage by not
knowing how to proceed. When a
bone has been located it is uncovered
slowly by the ald of small brushes and
delicate implements. The bones when
found are exceedingly brittle and must
be handled with the greatest of care.
When they are finally brought to light
they are given a coat of shellac and
then placed in a bath of flour paste.
They are then carefully wrapped in
strips of fabric and put in boxes. When
the latter are placed in crates for ship-
ment the smaller boxes are surrounded
with cotton and other material to pre-
vent any possibility of damage being
done to the specimens.
CASE OF REAL FRIENDSHIP
Old Maid’s Philosophy Might Be Dis
puted, but She Was Undoubt-
edly a True “Chum.”
The young principal of a Hoosier
schooi had to borrow some money in
a hurry or some of his debtors would
notify the school board of his indebt-
edness to them. He went to a bank
and was told it would be all right if
one of the teachers of his building
would go his security. He went to
the oldest and most faithful one in
the building.
While they were talking, the princl-
pal’'s young wife, resplendent in fine
raiment, with her best friend, the
mayor's wife, came through the room
on her way to her husband's office.
She gave the teacher a condescending
nod and told her husband she wished
to see him in his office. = With an
apology on his lips the young fellow
followed the snobby wife.
For a minute the little old mald
hesitated, then she signed the note,
and started one of the pupils toward
his office before another snubbing
from his wife would make the work
of indorsing that note harder. “After
all, a friend should be more loyal then
even a wife,” she argued to herself.—
Indianapolis News,
‘And Wife.
This story concerns a certain public
official prominent in Marion county
political life who recently became a
bridegroom and went on a honeymoon
journey to the South.
The man and his young bride
stopped at a hotel in a Florida city
and as he proceeded to the hotel reg-
ister she waited several paces in his
rear. It seemed to him that some one
had announced to the bellboy, the
porter, the clerk and every one about
that he was just married, for they
waited and watched eagerly. He
wrote something and started toward
his wife.
“Haven't you forgotten something,
sir?” the clerk asked.
The husband turned quickly, sized
up the situation in his mind hurried-
ly and with a snap of his finger, char-
acteristic of him, he said.
“By dad, I most certainly have.”
With that he returned to the reg-
ister and to his own name, which he
already had written he added “and
wife.”—Indianapolis News.
Telephone Service in Morocco.
It is said that Tangier, Morocco, is
one of the first cities outside the
United States in which telephones
were used, the service having been
established there more than forty
years ago. Practically the same sys-
tem, however, is still in use. The cir-
cuits are all operated on a one-wire
basis with the earth as the return
conductor. Although nominally each
of the 600 subscribers has a number,
the person making the call usually
asks for his party directly by name,
At the present time the installation of
a new system is under way, consisting
of the latest type of common battery
switchboard and instruments. :
Record Slow Mail.
An English newspaper reports the
recent delivery of a letter containing
a key which reached its destination
fifty-six years after it was mailed.
M. Bergamin, Spanish minister of
finances, declared recently that he had
just returned a letter containing certifi-
cation of the public accounts of
Gerone Province and addressed to a
director general of accounts who was
removed from office February 1, 1866.
It had taken this letter fixty-six
years and eight months to reach its
destination. It contained a statement
of the fimds at that time in the provin-
clal treasury.
it- Does Look Just Like It.
Charles was spending his nrst va.
cation of his five years’ existence with
his parents at the lake. The wind
came up one night, and the next morn-
ing Charles looked out on a lake cov-
ered with white-caps. Much excited,
he ran into the house to his mother,
“Mother, mother!” he exclaimed
“some one threw paper all over the
lake last night.”
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WITHOUT OPERATOR.
Subscribers of the Sherwood central
office of the Bell Telephone company
are now using dials in making tele-
phone calls. They no longer hear an
operator’s voice when they lift the re-
ceiver from the hook, but instead get
their connection directly, after manip-
ulating the dial.
The Sherwood central is the first
Bell office in Pennsylvania to install
machine-switching, although the com-
pany is using the new system in New
York city, Omaha and some smaller
places. Officials say no operators will
lose their places because of the ma-
chine-switching, but that it will take
care of the increased demand for serv-
ice. There happens to be a shortage
of operators.
The change to machine-switching
required only a few moments and
caused no interruption of service. Dai-
ly rehearsals had been held and every
person knew exactly what to do and
when to do it. A schedule was plan-
ned and followed to the second. At
the moment agreed upon, one group
of men cut the wires connecting Sher-
wood subscribers with the manual
switchboard, and immediately there-
after another group removed the
wedges from relays which, until then,
had kept the machine-switching equip-
ment from working.
The manual equipment in the Sher-
wood office, Fifty-seventh and Chest-
nut streets, will not be removed but
will be placed into service at the
Granite central office to handle some
of the calls now being made through
the Belmont, Preston, Baring and
Woodland centrals.
Although no other central office in
that vicinity uses machine-switching,
it was necessary to install special ap-
paratus in all, so that calls may be
handled from the Sherwood machine-
switching office. A person need not
know whether the number he calls
uses machine-switching. Calls be-
tween Sherwood office and other offices
are handled as expeditiously as if all
were using the same system.
The switchboard of the machine-
switching apparatus is, perhaps, the
most complicated piece of electrical
machinery in use. It seems almost
human in its ability to select the right
number from among thousands.
The principal officials of the Bell
company witnessed the change to the
new system. Leonard H. Kinnard,
president of the company, in Pennsyl-
vania, personally supervised the
change. Among the visitors were tel-
ephone men from New York, Chicago,
Boston, Baltimore, Washington and
other cities.
Already Here.
Charles M. Schwab said at a dinner
in New York.
“They tell us to beware of a social
revolution, but hasn’t a social revo-
lution already taken place?
“A bricklayer called on a college
professor the other day and said: ‘Say,
prof., my daughter wants to study
Greek. Like to have a job of teach-
in’ her?’
Theccor ease I should!’ said the pro-
fessor eagerly. ‘Suppose I gave her
three lessons a week—one hour les-
sons, you know. How would that
hour?’
“‘Humph!” said the bricklayer. How
much are you goin’ to charge an
heur ’
“The professor laughed genially.
“It'll be quite fair,” he said. ‘I'll
make my rate per hour just the same
as yours.’
“The bricklayer turned red in the
face. His eyes bulged.
“ ‘You profiteerin’ extortioner!” he
growled as he clumped out.”
Shipment of Deer from Michigan.
Three buck deer and two does that
were captured at Munsing, Mich., by
game wardens arrived in Altoona on
Thursday of last week and were re-
ceived by game warden Frank A. My-
ers. The animals were liberated in
the Bobs Creek game preserve. This
is the second shipment of Michigan
deer sent to Blair county, as the week
previous Mr. Myers received three
does from that State, the animals
being taken to the Dry Run section
and liberated.
The Michigan deer are much larger
than the Pennsylvania deer, one of
the does liberated two weeks ago
weighing 215 pounds. The deer re-
ceived last Thursday were sent by ex-
press and were crated and taken to
the game sections in automobile
trucks.
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All the remaining stock of Rogers ® Bro.
‘‘Star Brand” Knives, Forks and Spoons
will be sold at, $2 per half dozen. These
are the remaining articles of our sale.
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
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