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Bellefonte, Pa., August 17, 1923.
TODAY’S RELIGION.
Religion is not a collection of creeds,
Theologies, dogmas, or rules,
A burning of incense, a prating of prayers,
Or ecclesiastical tools.
Religion is not singing psalms by the hour,
Nor mumbling your prayer-book all day,
Nor reading the Bible, nor going to church
Though they are all good in their way.
No! Religion is vital, religion is life!
Full of impulse which flows from the
heart,
‘Which scorns
cant,
And is honest in every part.
Religion is telling the truth in a trade,
Without even counting the cost,
And having the courage to stand by the
right,
Theo’ fortune and friends may be lost.
all hypocrisy, snivel and
Religion is thirty-six inches per yard,
And sixteen full ounces per pound,
And sixty whole minutes of other men’s
time—
Not watching those minutes roll ’round.
Religion is meeting the world with a smile,
Then bringing a bright smile back
home—
A joy to the loved ones who wait for our
step,
No matter how far you may ream.
Religion is turning your back on the
wrong,
With a prayer in your heart to do right;
Then stepping forth boldly to conquer
Yourself,
With your face ever facing the light.
Religion is giving a bright word or more,
To those whose dark clouds hide their
sun;
If you've got the kind of religion I mean,
You will hear the Great Master's “Well
done.”
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THE FIRST AMERICANS.
Ethnologists have long courteously
disputed the question. Who were the
aborigines of America? For a long
time it was believed that all the tribes
and nations that the early discoverers
found here were variations of a sin-
gle stock, of which the red man of
North America was taken to be the
characteristic representative. Most
students of ethnology thought he was
more closely related to the Mongolian
races of Asia than any others, though
there were many ingenious guesses at
his origin, among them one that sup-
posed him to be the descendant of the
ten lost tribes of Israel.
But modern research holds that
there were many waves of migration
from Asia into America, most of them
and perhaps all of which came across
the Bering Strait, possibly at a time
when the two continents were joined
at that point. It is not probable that
the Eskimos of Greenland, the Iro-
quois and the Sioux of North America,
the cultivated and artistic Mayas of
Yucatan and Incas of Peru, the sav-
age blackfellows of the Amazon Val-T
ley and the nomadic Patagonians were
ever of the same stock.
At the recent meeting of scientific
societies in Cambridge one of the
speakers startled his hearers by sug-
gesting that one of the early stock to
find its way into America was of a ne-
gro type, similar to that of the prim-
itive Australians. The same speaker
thought that the Eskimos are proba-
bly the remnant of the earliest Amer-
icans, and in spite of a certain resem-
blance in feature between the Eskimo
and the Mongolian peoples that the
nearest relatives of the Eskimo were
the Nordic ancestors of the Scandina-
vian and the German people.
* According to that theory a black or
nearly black wave succeeded the first
white emigration and was in turn fol-
lowed by an Aryn and a Mongoloid
stock. The last mentioned were the
latest and in many respects the most
advanced and has plainly left its mark
on many of the most virile aboriginal
tribes of America.
What was the origin of the remark-
able culture of the Malays and the In-
cas, who ware the most advanced of
all prehistoric Americans, no one
knows with certainty. That it orig-
inated on this side of the Pacific is
possible. Dr. LePlongeon indeed be-
lieved that all civilization began with
the Mayas, and that they sent their
missionaries to India, Chaldea and
Egypt over the lost continent of Alan-
tis; but no one now believes that. The
architecture of the Mayas is so sug-
gestive of the ruined architecture of
Java that it is impossible to avoid a
feeling that the two cultures may have
had the same origin. In that case the
Mayas would have been among the
latest comers from Asia, later than
the ancestors of our red Indians and
those of the dark-skinned Aztecs of
Mexico.
It is a fascinating subject, and eth-
nologists have only begun on it. Al-
most nothing is known with certainty;
it is all theory as yet. Perhaps it
must remain so.—Ex.
OAK HALL.
Received too late for last week’s issue.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lowder and fam-
ily visited friends at Rebersburg, on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Kline are re-
ceiving congratulations over the birth
of a son, Tuesday.
Mrs. Thomas Gramley, of Altoona, is
visiting: with her daughter, Mrs. R. C.
Lowder, for an indefinite time.
Most of the employees of the Oak
Hall Lime and Stone company are now
out of a job, there being no demand
for stone at this time.
Barly. Monday morning two of Oak
Hall’s best known young men, Harold
Wagner and Carl Zong, started on a
motor trip to California. They expect
to be gone about a month.
Mrs. Jacob Zong and son Glenn,
Mrs. Howard Frazier and Guy Zong
motored to Watsontown Saturday to
visit Mrs. Zong’s brother, Fred Col-
yer, returning home Sunday.
Mary—*“So you turned him down?”
Nora—*“Absolutely! He told me he
was connected with the movies and
then I saw him driving a furniture
van.
HEALING WOUNDS OF PLANTS
What Might Almost Be Termed Surgi-
cal Operations Are Frequently
Employed by Gardeners.
It seems strange to think of a plant
being put into splints very much in
the same way as the surgeon fixes up
a broken bone, says St. Nicholas. Yet
this plan is often followed in the mod-
ern garden. From one cause or 8&n-
other a bough becomes broken,
aithough the parts are not actually
severed. Frequently this is due to the
weight of the fruit. In this case
money will be lost if something can-
not be done to repair the injury.
It is here that the practice of put-
ting a plant in splints becomes useful.
Iirst of all, the expert gently straight-
ens out the bent portion. This has to
pe done with great care, so as, if pos-
sible, to avoid a complete fracture.
Then he takes two splints—lengths of
wood a little wider than the branch
and long enough to allow several
inches above and below the break—
and binds them in place, not too
tightly, or it would hamper the cir-
culation of the sap. When the splints
are well adjusted cotton wool is tucked
into any exposed parts about the frac-
ture. In this manner the action of
the air is excluded as far as possible.
If the matter has been looked after
promptly, there is no reason why the
growth above the break should not go
on steadily. Finally, the wound is so
completely healed that the place where
the break took place is as strong as
any other part of the plant.—New
York Post.
GRAVE OF MARY MAGDALENE
Tradition Asserts That the “Great
Sinner” of the Bible Was
Interred in France.
The inhabitants of the Provence dis-
trict in southern France claim that
Mary Magdalene, the “great sinper”
of the Bible, was interred in Saint
Maximin chapel a hundred miles from
Toulon and Marseilles.
Although the earthly remains of
one of the first saints are declared to
be contained within this chapel, it is
not often visited by sightscers, the
Detroit News states. A picturesque
old woman conducts a small number
of strangers daily through the chapel.
She leads them into a crypt where
the skull of Mary Magdalene, lined
with bands of gold, is supposed to be
kept. The bones are dark, almost
black. Yet the deep eyeholes and
delicately curved Jjawbones still
arouse an impression of beauty. In a
golden shrine one sees a curl said to
have been cut from the head of the
saint who, with her hair, dried the
feet of the Savior. The hair is thick
and. soft and has a gold-brown luster.
To the question how the saint came
into Provence the old guardian tells
that on account of the persecutions of
Christians in Palestine Mary Mag-
deline and her brother, Lazarus, left
their native country. The ship on
which they traveled happened to be
wrecked near Marseilles.
He Got the Job.
The manager of a business house was
interviewing applicants for the post of
night watchman,
He was very hard to please and al-
ways found something the matter with
each man.
One had brown hair, which the man-
ager could not stand ; another squinted,
a third was Ixish, a fourth too thin, an-
other too short, and yet another too
tall.
John Smithers heard of this as he sat
in the corridor waiting his turn to be
interviewed, and resolved to be pre-
pared for everything.
When his turn came all went well
There was nothing the matter with him
as far as appearance was concerned
and his references ‘were quite in order.
“Now,” said the manager, “is your
health quite sound?”
“Well, sir,” replied John, “I have only
one complaint.” '
“What is that?’ said the manager,
pricking up his ears.
“Insomnia,” came the reply.—Lon-
don Answers.
May Day and May Baskets.
The celebration of May day is an
English custom which originated with
the Druids. The Floralia, or floral
games of the Romans, which began on
April 28 aud continued several days,
were festivals of similar character. In
medieval and ‘Tudor England the first
day of May was a great public holf-
day. The young people started at an
early hour to gather flowers and haw-
thorn branches, with which they dec-
orated every door and window in the
village. In Northamptonshire it was
the custom for the young men early
on May day morning to leave a large
punch of flowering hawthorn at the
door of the prettiest girl in the vil-
iage; later the hawthorn gave place
to the May basket. In some places in
the United States May baskets are
hung on the evening of April 80, but
there is no authority for the custom.
Improved Hand Truck.
To dispense with the services of a
helper, a hand truck, described In
Popular Mechanics Magazine, has been
#0 designed that it enables one man to
handle large packages. Swiveled above
the truck and its two small wheels is
a platform so arranged that one end
of it can be raised or lowered by dou-
ble levers and links. On the platform
is a sliding frame with its end turned
at right angles so that, when' lowered,
it can be pushed under’a package, and
when that end is raised and the other
end is lowered onto the truck, it is
ready for moving.
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RID HIMSELF OF THE BORE
Clever Scheme by Which Painter Shut
Out Undesirable Visitor From
His Studio.
A laughable story is ascribed to the
artist and wit, Mr. Oliver Herford, by
his associate, Mr. Edward Simmons,
the painter. Mr. Simmons says that
one day while he was enjoying a very
agreeable call at Mr. Herfor¢’s studio
their conversation was interrupted by
a peculiar knocking at the door—three
loud peremptory knocks at intervals
of a second or two and then two more
in quick succession.
Mr. Herford at once put his finger
on his lip and motioned to his caller
to be perfectly quiet. Neither man
spoke or stirred while the curious
knock was twice repeated. Then they
heard the retreating footsteps of the
knocker passing down the hall.
Then Mr. Herford relaxed his at-
titude of silent tension and smiled.
“That was Blank,” he said, “a thor-
oughly good and well-meaning fellow,
but a most frightful bore. I've stood
all the calls I can from him. So I told
him that I had given special knocks
to all my most intimate friends in
order that I might know when they
called ‘and let them in at times when
I should be unwilling to be disturbed
by less congenial callers, Blank was
saying only the other night that I
must have been out a good deal lately.
He hasn’t got in to see me since I as-
signed him his knock !”"—Youth’s Com-
panion.
HOLY CITY TO MANY SECTS
Jerusalem Held a Sacred Spot by
Others Than Followers Precepts
of the Christ.
We were in the outskirts of Jeru-
salem before we realized it. We
turned a corner in the road, and there
before us rose the city, set upon a
hill. In its narrow, noisome alleys,
its tortuous lanes, its dim bazars, its
four-square houses with their brown
mud walls, rising on the hillside, one
above another, like chairs in an
amphitheater, it resembles many an-
other oriental city. But above the flat-
roofed dwellings rise scores of impos-
ing buildings in brick and stone,
churches, convents, monasteries, hos-
pices, mosques, and synagogues, repre-
senting the religious devotion of
Protestant and Catholic, Latin and
Greek, Copt and Armenian, Moslem
and Jew. For it must be remembered
that Jerusalem is the Holy city of the
Hebrews and of the Mohammedans no
less than of the Christians, for here
Solomon reared the temple and on its
site stands the great mosque of Omar,
the third holiest place in the Mos:
lem world.—Harper’s Magazine,
Kept Worshipers Awake.
To the tithing man in New England
fell the task of keeping worshipers
awake during church services. He
had a long staff with a knob on one
end to tap the sleeping men, while on
the other end was a fox tail to dangle
in the face of sleeping women. :
One Allen Bridges is spoken of in
one of the early journals. He was
very proud of having been appointed
to wake the sleepers, and was de-
termined to show his authority. He
fastened a thorn to one end of his
waking weapon.
“On ye last Lord’s Day he did spy
Mr. Tomling sleeping,” the journal
reads. “He gave him a grievous prick
in the hand. Whereupon Mr. Tomlins
did spring up much above ye floor and
with terrific force strike hys hand
against ye wall,
“And to ye great wonder of all,
prophanlie exclaim ‘Curse ye wood-
chuck,” he dreaming yt was a wood-
chuck had seized and bit hys hand.”
New Variety of Sugar Cane.
The variety of sugar cane known as
8. C. 124, produced by the federal ag-
ricultural experiment station in the
Virgin islands, is considered very prom-
ising.
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MADE ATTACK ON ST. JOHN |
Daring Raid of Massachusetts Mar
Had Consequences That Were
Felt for Many Years.
Stephen Smith of Machias, Maine,
a delegate to the Massachusetts com:
gress, made a raid on St. John, N. B,,
in August, 1776. He burned the bar
racks and destroyed the fort, which
was protected by only four men, and
captured a brig, of 120 tons, laden with
oxen, sheep and swine, which were
intended for the British troops at Bos-
ton. This sudden raid had the effect
of putting the British authorities on
the alert, and vessels of war were sent
to cruise in the Bay of Fundy to pro-
tect the settlements along its shores.
The people of Machias, emboldened
by the success which attended thelr
first raid, attempted to seize and hold
the fort at St. John, but were driven
away by a force sent from Halifax.
In consequence of this second raid on
St. John, a block house and stockades
were erected on a hill overlooking the
harbor, and dignified by the name of
Fort Howe. Two years after this
event about 600 Indians assembled at
the mouth of the Jemseg for the pur-
pose of destroying the settlement of
Maugerville, but the people escaped
across the river to Oromocto, where a
fort had been erected. This was the
last threat of Indian war, and in the
following year, 1780, numbers of In-
dians assembled at Fort Howe and
| swore allegiance to King George.
CAN'T FOOL DIAMOND DEALER
Men Who Handle Precious Stones
Have Many Ways of Detecting
Those Which Are “Fakes.”
inne.
For the reason that the traffic in
imitation precious stones is growing,
diamond merchants nowadays are
obliged to devote more time than for
merly to the detection of fakes. . The
experienced dealer can often tell a
faked stone at a glance.
Once suspicion falls on a stone fit
is subjected to various tests. For ex-
ample, the gem may be placed in wa-
ter, and watched to see if it loses its
brilliance. If this happens, the stone
fs discarded at once as being false.
Another water test consists in plac-
ing a drop of water on the stone. The
water globule is then touched light-
ly with the point of a pencil. If the
globule breaks the stone is a fake.
Sometimes a black dot is made on
a piece of white paper, and the dia-
mond held in front of it. If the stone
is an imitation the dot appears
blurred.
The hardness of a stone is another
deciding factor. A real diamond can
be filed with the hardest instrument
without being scratched. A faked
stone will crack and probably break
up under the process.
British Museum Readers.
Charge for admission to the British
museum in Bloomsbury, London, does
not at present include the famous read-
ing room, which is alleged to possess’
the largest dome in the world. Many
professional searchers earn precarious
livelihoods in this splendidly appointed
library. According to the Manchester
Guardian, an expert reader was recent-
ly offered £40 to summarize a Latin
life of one of the popes. He demanded
£80, but some one else did the work
for five guineas (about $25).
One man copied all the old prize
fights for about 35 cents per 1,000
words, and it recently came out in evi-
dence that a retired clergyman trans-
lated Italian stories for about 25 cents
per 1,000 words. Innumerable readers
search guides to horse racing, a West-
minister city councilor used to work
' there with regularity, and several re-
tired generals from the army are
among regular attendants at the Brit-
It is stated
that recently a Kleagle of the Ku Klux
Klan asked for English law, with chap-
ter and verse, as to right and left-hand
flogging.
Recent reports to the United |
States Department of Agriculture from
a plantation in Porto Rico to which
cuttings were sent for testing say that
the original two and one-half acres
planted to this variety have been ex-
tended to 200 for the present pear.
Several of the fields are estimated to
yield 60 tons of cane an acre, which,
with the average sucrose and purity of
the juice, should give nearly 11 tons of
96 degree sugar an acre. The original
field is now giving a fourth ratoon crop
that averages 20 tons of cane an acre.
A profitable fourth ratoon crop has
never before been produced on this
plantation with any other variety.
Anthropological Find.
At Haelbarg, in southern Germany,
pne of the most important finds in the
whole history of anthropology was
made in 1907. The specimen was a
lower human jaw belonging to the sec-
ond interglacial period, and fixed the
age of the first human race appearing
in western Europe. “Had the teeth
been absent,” says a report of this dis-
sovery, “it would have been impossible
to diagnose it as a human jaw. The
teeth are molars, pre-molars, canines
and incisors, and are all essentially hu-
man though primitive in form. The
conclusion is that the jaw, regarded as
unquestionably human from the nha-
ture of the teeth, ranks not far from
the point of separation between man
and the anthropold apes.”
A Social Thief.
“what kind of character is old Mrs.
@addeigh?”
#Ope - of. the kind that doesn’t let
anybody else have any.”—Boston Eve
ning Transcript.
Wires Too Fine for Sight.
Tungsten, the metal from which
modern electric filaments are made,
can be drawn into wire so fine as to
be invisible to the naked eye except
when held against the sun. A pierced
diamond serves as a‘ die to spin this
cobweb metal which, in spite of its
almost impalpable fineness, is strong
enough to bear up a pair of
ordinary desk shears. Wire of this
sort is used chiefly as fuse in delicate
electrical experiments, where the
least excess of current would destroy
intricate and costly apparatus.
Tungsten cannot be successfully
bent and shaped cold. Because of
this peculiarity, the cone-shaped fila-
ments for certain types of lamps are
made by winding the tungsten wire
around a slender steel mandrel, or
core, and after fixing it with heat, dis-
solving away the steel, leaving the
shaped filament as it appears in the
finished lamp.
Swinburne,
What will time, the great decider of
men’s labor and fame, eventually say
of him? We are too near him to judge
with any certainty how he will appear
to those who look back to him as he
looked back to Coleridge and Shelley.
But it is. hard to believe that any
change of the perspective will dim the
brightness of ‘his lyric achievement.
He was prodigal of his music, that
new music he had taught the old
tongue; over-prodigal at times, seeing
that. verse may run once too often in
the triple-lilt of his magical cadences.
But he has left English poetry rein-
forced at point after point.—Ernest
Rhys.
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