Bellefonte, Pa., October 19, 1923.
FINDS CORALS MEAT EATERS
Qeological Survey Head Discovers Nr
Vegetation in Whole Colony in
the Tortugas.
The builders of coral reefs and is
Jatids are entirely meat-eating animals,
“according ‘to ‘the report of Dr. T. Way-
land Vaughan of the United States
‘geological ‘survey to the Pan-Pacific
“Bclence congress, which recently held
its meeting in the Antipodes, says a
Melbourne (Australia) correspondent
of. the New York Evening Post. In ex-
E periments conducted by him in the Tor-
tugas, in the Gulf of Mexico, corals per-
-slistent]ly refused a vegetable diet, but
even water fleas were not swift enough
-:to: dodge the lightning-like tentacles of
these carnivorous creatures.
The living coral is a branched col-
ony ‘of ‘individuals all connected to-
gether, and with their soft bodies en-
cased in strong shells. Each individual
is little ‘more than a stomach, with a
mouth surrounded by tentacles and
“gheltered in a little cup of the limey
‘ gkeleton within which the whole colony
is inclosed.
Doctor Vaughan described how when
a little beef juice or a small bit of
meat, usually crab flesh or fish, was
offered, the tentacles at the outer edge
of the colony would begin to appear.
Then: the stimulus was transmitted to
other members of the colony until soon
+ the surface of the specimen had opened
out like a beautiful flower. This con-
dition, he explains, seems to ‘indicate
that ‘the coral colony is hungry and
ready to capture food.
‘Many different kinds of food were
offered corals, Doctor Vaughan said,
but they took only animal food. No
kind of purely vegetable food was
‘taken by any one of the numerous
species investigated. Pieces of plants
coated with small animals soaked in
meat juice were swallowed, but later
the vegetable matter was ejected.
BACTERIA FROM THE RIFLE
Interesting Experiment Proves They
Can Be Fired From a Gun With-
out Apparent Injury.
-A singular experiment with bacteria
i that of a French investigator, who
has proved that those microscopic
enemies to human life and health can
be fired out of a gun without suffering
any apparent injury.
‘He has infected rifle bullets with
bacteria and then fired the bullets into
tin boxes filled with a gelatin preépara-
tion suitable for the nourishment of
the micro-organisms. Upon watching
the. holes. made- by the bullets in the |
preparation, he found that the precise
forms of bacteria with which the bul-
lets had been charged rapidly devel-
oped there, although it was known
that no organisms existed in the gela-
tin previous to the experiment.
‘He has even found that a bullet will
pick up bacteria from the air during
its flight, or from clothing through
which it passes, and deposit them, still
active and living, in a gelatin target.
Locomotive Pile Driver.
A unique development in mechanical
engineering is a locomotive pile driver,
in which there is an unusual arrange
ment and strength of the self-propel-
ling mechanism and in the self-con-
tained hydraulic turntable, whereby
the entire machine, including trucks,
is quickly lifted clear of the rails and
turned end for end. The engines on
the car are connected to the axles of
ordinary trucks without interfering
with the mrovement of the trucks ‘in
turning curves, passing over fiogs, and
the lke. The machine was designed
to meet the requirement for a pile driv-
er, capable of climbing. any grade and
‘hauling its own cars of piles and tools.
The self-propelling pile drivers bulit
hitherto have been capable of mov-
ing themselves for short distances
only.
Shirtmaker to Apollo.
An enterprising baberdasher in Ger
many has put his knowledge of the
classics to excellent use in his adver-
tising. Here are a few specimen ads:
“Even Macbeth could sleep in our
nightshirts.”
“Don Juan would have doubled his
conquests by weaning our neckties.”
“When Niobe began to weep she or-
dered six dozen of our handkerchiefs.”
“We could have arrayed Solomon
in twice his glory.”
“Had Lot's wife passed our win-
dows she would have stopped to look
no matter what the consequences.”
“We made Apollo's shirts.”
“Desdemona would never have been
careless about her handkerchief had
it been one of ours; they are too bean-
tiful”—Boston Transcript.
Usually the Way.
“Well, Bobby,” said the minister to
the small son of one of his deacons.
“what is the news?”
“Dad’s got a new set of false teeth.”
“Indeed!” sald the minister, re
straining a desize to laugh; “and what
will ‘he do with the old set?”
“Oh, I suppose,” replied Bobby, “he'll
cut 'em down and make me wear ‘em.”
» Cheering Him Up.
Jnsuccessful Author—After my
death the world will realize what I
have done.
Sympathetic Friend—Well, don't
worry about it, old chap. You'll be out
of harm's way then.—Boston Tran-
script.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
WHERE ALL THE SUGAR GOES |.¢
Bakers and . Makers of Candy: wt
Soft Drinks Use Vast
Amounts of It.
Not more than half of the sugar we | §
Americans consume fs ‘used In ‘our
homes. The rest goes into manufac §
tured products. The estimates of the
quantities used in manufacture run
this way:
Our candy makers. alone use more
than 850,000 tons, and 180,000 tons
more go to sweeten up chocolates and
ice creams.
Every year the bakers dip into the
national sugar bowl for well over 45,-
000 “tons for bréad, 55,000 tons ‘for
crackers and 90,000 tons‘ goes every
year ‘Ingo’ frostings and odds and ends
in the bakeries.
Fourteen thousand or ‘more soft-
drink makers hit the nation’s sugar
bin for at least 130,060 tons for their
concoctions and another 100,000 tons
goes into condensed milk.
Twenty thousand tons of sugar is
chewed up each year in gum; and less
aesthetic jaws worked on ‘another
15,000 tons that goes into the nation’s
“eatin’ tobacco,” this not including
about 6,000 tons that goes to smoking
tobaccos.
The country’s pill and potion bill
disposes of about 6,000 tons of sugar
each year, and the corner druggist
uses an unknown quantity in filling
what the doctor ordered.
Even sticky fly paper and roach,
ant and rat killers draw from the
sugar supply to the tune of hundreds
of tons.
And nobody knows how much has
gone into bootleg and home-brew.—
Nation’s Business,
SCALING SHIPS BY MACHINERY
tabor-Saving Device for Cleaning Bot
toms of Vessels Is Run by
Compressed Air.
Scaling ships’ bottoms by machinery
1s the latest labor-saving practice de-
vised to aid “those who go down to
the sea in ships.” Ever since the ad-
vent of iron and steel hulls, one of the
meanest jobs faced by Jack is clean-
ing the vessel's underwater section
when the ship Is placed in dry dock.
Hammers with chisel-like heads, wire
brushes and even cold chisels have
been laboriously wielded to clean off
marine growths, rust and the old
paint.
Now comes the ship scaling machine
run by compressed air and looking
very much like the pneumatic riveters
so painfully familiar to New Yorkers
who live near modern building opera-
tions—and who doesn’t? By its use,
one man with a scaling machine can
do as much in a day as could six men
with the old-time methods and do a
better and cleaner job at that. Gauze
goggles are needed, however, in op-
erating the ship sealer, because it
works so fast, that bits of metal, rust
and paint fly about in a veritable
shower. Another modification of the
machine is run by electricity.
Voice Pictures,
So that future generations might be
able to compare the quality of her
song with that of voices yet unheard,
Melba consented to sing into Professor
Low's audiometer, an instrument
which photographs the waves of sound
as they come from the singer's lips.
This photograph is quite different from
that of any other voice ever recorded.
No other has had anything resembling
the same variation combined with the
same regularity, It is full of harmonics
and infinitesimal variations in the
wave, but these waves are perfect in
regularity. This might account for its
carrying power, by superimposition,
since it is not a loud voice In the ordi-
nary sense.
Heroic Act of Collie.
A collie dog .is. reported to have
saved the life of a London (Ont.) gir,
while aecompanying the child to a
nearby store. The girl stopped on the
railroad tracks in the path of a flier.
Realizing the child's peril, the dog
threw himself aga®st her with suffi
client impact to knock her clear of dan-
ger, and was cut to pieces by the train
before he could regain safety. The
little one’s mother had tried to dis-
courage the dog from going when the
daughter started on her errand,
Shooting Cement.
An. 18-mile, tunnel has been pierced
.0 bring New York's water from the
Catskills. Four hundred thousand bar-
rels of cement wil be used in lining
the tunnel. A mixing plant at the
mouth of each one of the seven shafts
of the tunnel discharges compounded
concrete down an eight-inch pipe at
the rate of a mile a minute. The con-
crete is shot. into steel forms by a
“concrete cannon,”
Frank About Ft.
A visitor to. a mountain village
lound a seet which believed that the
world was fiat and made that a tenet.
“You hang together well,” he sug-
gested tw an elder.
“We don’t always, bang together so
well at that,” ‘responded the elder
frankly, “but we ain't got enough
members for. a split.” — Louisville
Courier-Journal®
“Watch Geese” for Warehouse,
Several of his watchdogs were sto
.en, SO Now a. Jondon warehouseman
is using geese instend, faught no doubt
by thegold story of Rome being saved
from night cap by the geese of the
capital. Geese are nervous birds and
canbe relied on to cackle in the pres-
ence of anything unusual, he 'says.
Many men are afraid to go near a
goose. ;
= Peggy Changes
Her Mind
0 1928, by ~MoClure Newspaper Syadicute.
Peter Cox crossed the ‘meadow,
The, path ran through ‘the rank
grass—his_ feet had worn it; and now
as he paused at the garden fence, he
let his guze wander to a lttle gate
near the kitchen door—a little gate
‘he had made with his own hands one
golden -afternoon when hope beat
high. * ....
For years be had been wearing that
‘path; coming daily to see Peggy How-
ell, whose mother was an Invalid.
How glad he was to have an oppor-
tunity to do little services—filling her
buckets for her, splitting the wood,
and doing many other oc | jobs out in
the barnyard.
He had stood .by her faithfully all
those years, earnestly hoping to gain
her whole heart; but every time he
had asked her to marry him she put
him off.
And now—that Taylor fellow from
the city was coming out, almost dally,
to see her, taking her car rides, going
on picnics, and fishing.
Peter dashed his hand across his
eyes angrily, and trod through the or-
chard regardless of path,
“She will tell me either ‘yes’ or ‘no,’
and if 'tis ‘no’ it will be the last time,”
muttered Peter disconsolately.
He was about to fling the gate open
and knock at the door when he saw
the knob turn, and paused. Peggy,
coming out with milk pail in one hand,
met him face to face.
Peggy Howell was a pretty, slim
little thing, with very winsome brown
eves and dark brown hair, and she
smiled a great deal.
Peggy darted: a demure look at
Peter's set face, which for the first
time she did not understand.
“Why, good morning, Peter,” she
said; “aren't you coming in?”
“Well, no, I'm in a hurry. I—well—
er—] did want to say a few words to
vou,” said Peter. /
“All right, Peter, out with it. ‘I am
in a little hurry. Mother wants some
warm milk. I am: always ready to
listen to what you have to say,
though,” added Peggy, smiling over
the gate at him.
“Well—er—I just came to ask you
again to marry me. Let it be ‘yes’ or
‘no.’ I'll not ask you again” sald
Peter with grim resolution, “I heard
uptown last night that Taylor was go-
ing to ask you the same question,” he
went on.
“And what is that to you?” demand-
ed Peggy.
“Well, it looks like it's a good deal
to me,” said Peter, picking splinters
from the gate with a hand that trem-
bled in spite of him. “I've never had
any chance with you, and since he has
been coming out to see you, I am clear
out of the running.”
Peggy set her bucket down and
stared at him.
“Peter, I'm sorry you take it so
hard. I've told you before I loved you
as a dear friend, and I don’t see why
you can't go on being my friend.”
“Well, I can't,” said Peter deliber-
ately. “I've never been your friend.
I've loved you ever since you were a
little slip of a girl, and you know it.
From this time on it's got to be all or
nothing—and as there’s mighty little
prospects of it being all, I reckon it'll
be nothing. So I've made up my mind
to sell the old home and leave.”
“Take it as you will,” said Peggy in
fey tones.
Peter stood there a moment leoking
slowly around, and thén his eyes went
on to her face. }
“Good-by,” he. said gently, and
walked out through the orchard and
meadow, without 100king back. .
Upon the face of Peter as he walked
slowly up the long lane between the
high hedges was a look of bewilder-
ment.
Overhead was the blue sky of May;
beyond the field of red earth was an
apple orchard, whose trees were
clothed in daintiest pink and white.
A carpet of bluebells covered the
copse close at hand; the leaves of
a beech tree near by were delicately
green against the vivid blue sky. The
sound of the distant sheep bells float-
ed upon the breeze. Peter leaned upon
the gate and sighed. He paused a“ mo-
ment. then walked on up the lane to
an old farmhouse which was a desert-
ed looking place.
He lived here alone. His mother
had been laid to rest in the graveyard
three years ago.
How hard it was to go into the old
house this day of all others. He had
often looked it over with pride, think-
ing« of the day when Peggy might
come there as its mistress. But now
—it didn’t matter; he would sell the
place and try his fortune in some oth-
er land. ww
He pushed the door open with a
bang, kicking the old cat out of his
way as he went into the disordered
room.
Within half an hour he was on his
way to town, resolved not to have any
delay about the matter,
Within ten minutes after he had
reached town he was conferring with
an real estate agent.
“Mr. Cox, I have a friend who
wants a farm, and I am rushed now.
If you will wait I will come out to-
morrow, and we will make a clear
deal,” The head of the firm was en.
thusiastic.
“All right, that suits me,” respond:
ed Peter in a choked voice.
Peter had not heard much, for his
heart vane tne full. He crept out and
through the little
3 | istarted for home, which seemed a
to: him now than ever. bia!
Le 50% 1G .
SIR og sat. ay still, with
her. ‘hands clasped tightly in her. lap,
and looked “that Taylor fellow! square
in the face while he had made love
to her.in a glorified, self-sufficient way,
and asked; her to marry him. He re-
ferred .to_his high standing snd
- wealthy ‘friends, and expected Jer to
cultivate better taste In dressing and
in manners, so she could entertain
and be on a social level with his
. Now,. sure that she would 1 even
think of refusing. such an offer, he
‘had left her with the pleasant sugges-
tion that he would | call again tomor-
row, when they would talk over. all |
their plans. And Peggy had fled—out
gate, and along the
path through the meadow she ran. She
was not smiling now, her eyes were
:blinded with tears. She put out ‘her
“hands to. find the gate that went into i
the old, farmhouse ‘and found Peter.
She clung to him sobbing, her face on
his shoulder.
“Oh, Peter, did you sell the old
home?” she cried brokenly.
“Why, what's the matter, Peggy?
No, not yet. The agent will be out
tomorrow to make the deal. But tell
me what has happened, Peggy.”
| “Oh, he Is so odious, such a hateful
beast. And that is what I have been
breaking your heart over all this time.
No, you aren't going to sell this dear
old place. I—"
Peter's arms went around her. He
held her as if there were no such
thing to be thought of as letting her
go. The voice in her ear was very
quiet.
“Peggy,” it said, “will you marry
me?” d
“Yes—oh, yes,’ Peter, if you will
take me. But what about the farm?
Will you sell 1t?”
“Oh, no, never if you come here to
live in it,” said the quiet voice.
Hand in hand they walked back
through the meadow, making plans of
their future as the night birds sang
a song of love above their heads.
CRIME SLANG IS TRANSLATED
Some of the Strange Terms Used by
“The Fraternity” of Crooks in
Great Britain,
In giving evidence in a recent crim-
inal case, a witness was asked the
meaning of the expression, “getting a
hornet into his web,” says London Tit-
Bits. It transpired that the interpre-
tation was, being overtaken by retri-
bution, or, in other words, getting
stung to death.
Many other curious terms are used
by crooks.
The “fly flat” is an easy victim for
the confidence trickster, a ‘“smasher”
“is a '‘coinmer, while a “snider” is the
man who foists the counterfeit coin
upon the public. A “page-hunter” is
a purse thief, and what is known as
“shifting the cut” refers to the wiles
and dodges of a blackleg—in other
words, the ingenuity exercised by him
to bring off a successful coup.
“Broadsmen” are card-sharpers; a
‘even three
1. “Derned ‘Poor, or Management.”
Ed. ‘Norwood, “publi director for
the ud. Tiblicity. Bailey cir-
cus, tells this story which he declares
is true:
An old man approached the ticket
wagon on the circus grounds and ask-
ed for three seats for the afternoon
performance. i
Pe , but we're sold out,” the
ticket Moller told him.
“You mean to say that you haven't
seats you can sell me?
“That’s about the sitaation.”
“Well,” opined the old man with
‘acerbity, “I call that derned poor)
management.
“Then there’s-the old. story about the
‘woman who entered a men’s furnish-
Ling . store to buy for her husband a
hat, such as she had seen in the win-
dow, ‘but couldn’t recall his size
“Funny I don’t remember it » she
wm——
added laughing; “I’ve been buying his
hats for years.”
The tor prom tly got out a
hat, size ' ‘and handed it to her.
“How do you know this will fit
him?” ghe as
“Because,” he told her, “we find
that 6%, always fits a man who habit-
ually lets his wife buy his hats for
him.”—The Nation’s Business.
Revised Recipe.
Take one damfool.
Soak in moonshine for a few. hours.
Place in any kind’ of an automobile.
Race ‘train to crossing.
place yp
Remove from wreckage,
black, satin lined box and ‘garni
with flowers.
—For ‘all the news you should read
the “Watchman.”
Week-Ahead Program
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20:
HARRY CAREY in
Comedy.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22:
peal.
Also, Pathe News and Topics.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23:
style.
Warren Kerrigan as the hero.
that was so popular.
mesday afternoon.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26:
film with an attractive desert atmosphere.
MILTON SELLS in “LEGALLY DEAD,” is
well directed, well acted and photographed story, based on a timely theme,
the resuscitations by adrenalin, a real life occurrence. A picture that will
“DESERT DRIVEN,” a six reel interesting western
Also, a two reel Century
COLLEEN MOORE in “SLIFPY McGHEE,” is a crook regeneration picture
in six reels with a perfect cast of players that will make a universal ap-
A crook thrown under a train loses a leg and gradually reforms.
PRISCILLA DEAN in “DRIFTING,” a six reel picture of a melodrama
Assisted by Matt Moore and Wallace Beery. A plot ‘beginning in
China dealing with opium smuggling. A love affair interwoven in the
plot. Also, two reel Educational Comedy.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 AND 25:
SYLVIA BREAMER in “GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST,” a seven reel
melodrama of the frontier days in which some action takes place, with
The story of the play by the same name
Also, a two reel Sunshine Comedy.’ Matinee Wed-
an especially fine picture; a
please everybody. Also, the 10th episode of “THE EAGLE’S TALONS.”
—
OPERA HOUSE.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 AND 20:
LON CHANEY in “THE SHOCK,” a six reel excellent melodrama in which
his part this time is more human. He is a cripple and bis acting as such
is fine.
good picture, see it.
A reproduction of the San Francisco earthquake is realistic. A
Also, 2 reel Larry Semon Comedy.
FRIDAY ND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 AND 27:
Special Star cast in “A CHAPTER IN HER LIFE,” an eight reel picture
that spreads cheer and sunshine in a story of a little girl who transforms
a family of grouches into one of happiness and joy. Also, Metro Comedy,
“The Goat.”
“Peterclaimer” is a bag or portman- SH
teau thief; “snout” is the phrase used
for tobacco; and “pongelo” has refer-
ence to a gargle or thirst quencher.
A “mumper” is a professional
tramp who never works, while a
“gorge tramp” or *“moucher” is one of
a similar breed who may be prevailed
upon to introduce a little honest labor
at times.
A “griddler” has been constructed |
as a
street singer,”
“Sunday afternoon voiceless
pleted appear to be in good order un-
til Miley are opened.
A “drag” is understood’to refer to
and “mush fakers” are |
back-door callers who undertake to |
repair umbrellas which when ecom- |g
"a short sentence of imprisonment, a | Kt
“stretch” being twelve manths.
2A “kite” :is a newspaper, while |
“boob” means durance vile, or any-
thing appertaining thereto.
operating on behalf of a thief or a
fence; “blunt” is monev; and “casual
bustin” is a common form of sneak-
thieving.
Genius of Old.
Greek, the shrine of the genius of :
che old world: as universal as our
race, as Individual as ourselves; of in-
finite flexibility, of
strength; with the complications and
distinction ‘of nature herself; to which | gi
nothing was vulgar, from which noth-
ing was excluded; speaking to ear like
‘the Hallan, speaking to the mind like
the English, with words like pictures,
‘with words like the gossamer film of | 55
summer ; at once the variety and pic-
turesqueness of Homer, the gloom and
intensity of Aeschylus; not compressed
to the closest by Thucydides, not fath-
omed to the bottom by Plato, not
sounding with all its thunders, nor lit
up with all its ardors even under the
Promethean touch of Demosthemes.— | 1
Coleridge.
, She Was Worried,
Little three-year-old Dorothy had. a
fight with her bigger sister, Hazel,
who was six years old. Dorothy, who
was notable flor her puglilistic prowess,
had seratched Hazel's face. Hazel set
up-a big howling and went and fold
both her mother and father.
Just then the dinner bellffrang. Ae
they sat taking the first course, which
was soup, the father and mother were
talking seriously about Dorothy's
fighting nature, but Dorothy drank her
soup quite unconcernedly,
Say Nawt So,
“Do you know how the rats ™, FO)
here?”
"Naw I”
“Uh-huh I” ;
A “foot- | BH
wiper” is a go-between or catspaw | HIE
Work
s
indefatigable 1
Men’s
Shoes
Every pair guaranteed to be
solid leather, or a new pair
given in their stead
a
Lei obo oom
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building
58-27
‘BELLEFONTE, PA.