Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 13, 1923, Image 6

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Bellefonte, Pa., April 13, 1923.
ICE PATROL IS NEVER IDLE
Coast Guard Unit Constantly at Work
Broadcasting Information as
to Ocean Conditions.
nes
Describing the work of the ice pa-
trol which was organized and placed
under United States management by
international agreement in 1913, an
authority says:
“A continuous patrol is maintained
by two United States coast guard cut-
ters capable of keeping the sea in all
kinds of weather. Each one alter-
nately takes a two weeks’ tour of
duty and is then relieved by the other.
When one of these ice scouts ap-
proaches the ice region, it collects all
information from nearby vessels and
proceeds to search the area south of
latitude forty-three for signs of ice,
and broadcasts information as to the
limits of the ice to all approaching
vessels. In connection with this scout-
ing duty, the ice patrol secures scien-
tific observations relating to the ice
area and forwards daily reports to the
weather bureau.”
One of the things brought out by
the evidence gathered by these ves
sels, he stated, is that there is no
truth in the old idea that the cold
Labrador current flowing south dives
under the warmer Gulf stream mov-
ing northeast and comes up again to
the southward. When these two ocean
currents meet, he claims, the Labrador
current is arrested, them turned to-
ward the Gulf stream and finally
pulled along in an easterly flow
parallel to it.
CHEATED OF JUST REWARD
Oldtime English Inventor Unable to
Get Recognition and Died
Broken-Hearted.
It seems always to have been true
that a pioneer of any invention which
is afterward tv become indispensable
must suffer misfortune, and perhaps
even perish, before his creation can
win the recognition it deserves,
This was the case with the steel
loom for knitting stockings, invented
in the Sixteenth century by William
Lee.
Lee took his invention to Queen
Elizabeth, but she withheld her
patronage. Again he improved his
machine, so that it would knit silk
stockings—the queen’s love of silk
hosiery had been one of her chief rea-
sons for disinterest—but again he was
American Indians Attached Immense
Importance to the Ceremony That
Accompanied Its Smoking.
The smoking of the “Pipe of Peace”
among the American Indians was a
ceremony attended with great solem-
nity. The peace pipe, called by the
French the calumet, was treated with
great reverence and was brought out
only upon the most important occa-
sions, such as the making of peace
treaties, the reception of a distin-
guished stranger with whom the tribe
wished to be upon good terms. If the
occasion did not bring forth the pipe
of peace, it was a sign of hostility.
To refuse to smoke it when offered
was a cause of offense. The calumet
was between two and three inches
long, and the stem rather than the
bowl was the object of the Indian's
reverence. The stem was of reed,
artistically decorated with women’s
hair or eagle's quills. Among the
western tribes the pipe bowl was of
red catlinite, a fine-grained stone of
deep red color found in Coteau des
Prairies, west of Big Stone lake, in
South Dakota. The Indians of the
South and East made the bowl of
white stone pierced with several holes
so that several stems could be used at
the same time. The calumet quarries
were regarded as neutral ground
among the warring tribes and there
were many sacred traditions connect-
ed with these spots.
FURTHER HINTS ABOUT MEN
It Would Seem That Writer Has
Given Pretty Thorough Considera-
tion to the Subject.
“There never was a man too near-
sighted to see the look of admiration
in a pretty woman's eyes.”
“A good woman inspires a man, a
brilliant woman interests him, a beau-
tiful woman fascinates him—but the
considerate woman gets him.”
“When it comes to making love, a
girl can always listen so much faster
than a man can talk.”
“Love, the quest; marriage, the con-
quest; divorce, the inquest.”
“Most 1aarriages, nowadays, seem
built for speed rather than for endur-
ance.”
“There are only two kinds of per-
fectly faultless men—the dead and
the deadly.”
“One reason why a man’s life is so
much fuller than a woman's is because
he sperids nearly three quarters of it
in hunting up things for a woman to
do.”
“A widow's chief consolation in re-
marrying is probably that she finds it
less exhausting to sit up and wait for
D. W. Meyers is spending some time
among friends in Altoona.
C. C. Williams spent Tuesday at the
W. G. Gardner home in the Glades.
George Smith and wife, of Altoona, |
spent Sunday with friends in town.
Prof. A. L. Bowersox transacted
business in Lock Haven on Saturday.
Will Thompson left for Chicago this
week where he has a good job in view.
_ Merrill Leidy, of Altoona, will as-
gist John Kocher on the farm this
summer.
Don’t fail to see “The Poor Married
Man,” in the 1. O. O. F. hall Saturday
evening.
One of George Mothersbaugh’s best
cows was found dead in its stall Sat-
urday afternoon.
E. C. and J. F. Musser shipped two
carloads of hay from the Oak Hall
station this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bryan are re-
ceiving congratulations over the ar-
rival of a little girl.
Mrs. J. H. Keller is spending some
time with her sister, Mrs. Ida Wil-
liams, on Main street.
Allen Andrews, tenant on the A. C.
Kepler farm, is nursing a sore leg the
result of being kicked by a horse.
Mrs. John Fortney and daughter,
Mrs. Biddle, of Altoona, were callers
at the J. I. Reed home on Monday.
Mrs. Blanche Hess, of the Branch,
attended the funeral of her cousin,
Annie Fox, at Lebanon on Saturday.
Grover C. Corl has been discharged
from the Bellefonte hospital and is
convalescing nicely at his home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Glenn, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Glenn and Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Shirk spent Sunday with friends
in town.
Now that the public sale season is
over auctioneer J. I. Reed will assist
his son Frank erect a new house in
State College.
H. H. Goss and wife, of State Col-
| proved in health.
| Ernest Royer, who spent the win-
' ter with friends at Chester is back at
{ the home of his parents at Blooms-
dorf, very little improved in health.
While confined to his bed with an
"attack of the flu George C. McWil-
liams endeavored to get up to get
some medicine, fell and cut quite a
gash in his head.
Frank Heninger and wify, of Lew-
istown, and Prof. M. E. Heberling,
wife and sister, Miss Estella Heber-
ling, of State College, visited among
friends in town on Sunday.
Miss Etta Gilliland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gilliland, in the
Glades, is seriously ill with pneumnia,
which developed while recovering
from an attack of the measles.
Mrs. Rachel Wilson has returned
frim the Wills Eye hospital, Philadel-
phia, where she underwent an opera-
tion for the removal of cataracts from
her eyes. She is now able to read
with glasses.
Wade Herman motored over from
Clearfield last week to attend the fun-
eral of Mrs. Williams at Lemont and
on starting home that night crashed
into a tractor that was moving with-
out a tail light. His car was pretty
badly damaged and he was compelled
to spend the night at the St. Elmo.
The Moore home west of town was
the scene of a happy birthday surprise
party on Monday evening in honor of
the head of the family, Edward Stew-
art Moore’s 68th birthday anniversa-
ry. Mr. Moore was born at Sauls-
burg but when eight years old came
to this section and became a member
of the J. B. Mitchell household. In
1888 he married Margaret Martz. Ten
daughters and one son were the re-
sult of the union.
No man is too big to be cour-
i teous, but many men are too little.—
i Bindery Talk.
GASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
Select a Good Bank---and
Begin to Save
hose who have made a habit of
systematic saving know what
pleasure a bank book, showing
a growing balance, affords.
Those who do not save, know what
hardship the lack of money brings.
Why not save a little of what you
earn? We are ready to help you do it.
The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
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“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.
disappointed at not receiving a royal '
grant,
Things were no better under James
I, so he went to France, and when
success was almost within his grasp
at the French court the assassination
of the king balked him again. Broken-
hearted, he died, but in the next cen-
tury Oliver Cromwell granted a pat-
ent on his device to the Company of
Framework Knitters.
All the remaining stock of Rogers & Bro.
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one man to come home evenings, than
to sit up and wait for a lot of them to
go home.”—From “A Guide to Men,”
by Helen Rowland.
Famous Chinese Tombs.
The famous Ming tombs are located
near Nanking, China. On the road
that leads to them from Nanking are
colossal figures of carved stone. These
are statues of Chinese kings. The
Mongols under Genghis Khan's suc-
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Onions and Authority.
Next after hard-boiled eggs M.: cessor swept across Asia and Russia Uo
Clemenceau made the American pub-| and overran Hungary. He defeated Se Te
lic familiar with onion soup. But all | the Germans and Poles in 1241. But =]
that is purely material, only a ques- | the mongols were beaten by Egypt in Ln
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tion of restoring the tissues and keep-
ing in health. Far above any such
association with the onion is the dic-
tum, of metaphor, of one of our high-
1260. After that their power waned,
and China was able to throw off the |
Mongol yoke in 1360, when she estab-
lished a rule of native kings—the
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describes as an infallible authority on
literature, art and all life, he says that
this genius speaks “from the very
center of the onion.” This may mean
that the man has pungent and pene-
trating views. It may mean to convey
that his ideas carry far, in the spirit
of what George Eliot wrote about
“the waftings of that energetic bulb.”
In any event, the appearance of this
simile is worth noting if only as a re-
minder of what all those who desire
to be “in the movement” have to keep
up with. Possibly we have here the
dim beginnings and adumbrations, we
may say odors, of a new and revolu-
tionary onion philosophy.
Then the Manchus, another Mongol
i people, reconquered China,
mained masters until 1912,
There is a fence built around these
statues, because the Chinese believe
that the statues would be very mad
if a common Chinaman were to touch
them.
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Blind Spots.
The world has its “blind spots” for | mmc mr —— sani
thunder and lightning, says a bulletin
of the National Geographic society.
The brilliant flash of lightning and
the crackle and rumble of thunder
would be as impossible of conception
by many Eskimos as would “solid wa-
ter” by equatorial savages.
In general the frequency of thunder-
storms decreases as one goes north,
until within the Arctic and Antarctic
Circles they seldom occur,
When Katmai volcano, on the Alas-
kan peninsula, erupted in 1912, some
of the adult natives of the vicinity
were more terrified at the lightning
and thunder that accompanied the
dust clouds than at the possibility of
being buried by ash, because they had
nothing in their lifelong experience by
which te judge the blinding and deaf-
ening noise from the skies.
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Clothes are distinguish-
ed-looking in their style.
They are lastingly tailor-
ed. Their cloths are all
wool and enduring as the
year is long. Are they
worth $30 and $35?
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Fortunes Made in Few Minutes.
If a song “catches on” it proves a
gold mine to somebody, although not
always to the author and composer.
“Alexander's - Ragtime Band,” and
“Her Golden Halr is Hanging Down
Her Back” were moneymakers, for the
profits in each case fell little short of
£20,000.
In the same class must be added
such songs as “The Bogey Man,” “In |
the Shade of the Old Apple Tree,” and
“After the Ball.” It is said, too, that
“My Pretty Jane,” which Sims Reeves
sang thousands of times, netted £2,000
a line.
Yet some of these best sellers have
been the result of but a few minutes’
actual work. “Sing Me to Sleep” was
composed in ten minutes. Tosti’s
“Dear Heart” was the work of two
days, while Balfe wrote “Killarney” in
a few minutes.—London Tit-Bits.
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New listings or changes of
present listings should be
received for the next issue of the
Bell Telephone Directory before
April 25th, 1923.
So if you are planning to move,
desire your listing changed or want
advertising space in the new direc-
tory, call the Business Office at once.
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Luminous Paints.
The iuminous ingredient in paints is
usually either calcium sulphide, barium
or strontium carbonate or sulphate, or
mixtures of these chemicals may be
used. An example of a luminous paint,
giving a violet, is as follows: 100 parts
of strontium carbonate, 100 parts of
sulphur, 0.5 parts each of potassium
chloride and sodium chloride, 0.4 parts
manganese chloride. These are heated
an hour to 75 minutes to about 2,372
degrees F. The paint is prepared by
mixing this with pure iinseed oll.
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Old Car Didn't Matter.
The neighbors had bought a new
car, but still used the old one, which
was sitting at the curb one day when
Mrs. H., across the street, was back-
ing out of her driveway with Charles
on the seat beside her. He was watch-
ing out from his side of the car.
“Am I going all right, sonny?” Mrs,
H. asked.
“Yes, you're all right,
Charles answered,
“I want to be careful and not hit
Jones’ car.”
“It won't make any difference if
you do, mother; t's their old one”
Charles replied.
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The Changes of Time.
“You never can tell what is going to
happen.”
“What now?”
“The young fellow I fired for in-
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