Benoit Bellefonte, Pa., November 30, 1923. HOW TO PREVENT TROUBLE WITH NEW HIGHWAY POLICE. Harrisburg, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s motor patrol will be on the road be- fore December 1. - The object of this patrol is to clear Pennsylvania highways of those driv- ers who violate the laws of the State and the rules of the road. Motorists who wish to avoid arrest by the new patrol, it was suggested by the De- partment of Highways, should pay particular attention to the following: Reckless Driving.—Reckless driv- ing is defined as driving and operat- ing a motor vehicle so as to create a hazard to life, limb or property. This covers a wide range—from the oper- ation of a car with defective brakes or glaring headlamps to cutting across traffic without a warning to cars in the rear; and includes any act or omission calculated to jeopardize the lives or property of others. The motor patrol will be particularly watchful for reckless drivers. Speed.—So-called speed maniacs will be picked up, and those persons who travel at unreasonable rates on curves or toward the crests of hills. Headlamps.—Cars on which the headlamps are out of focus will be stopped and may not proceed until ihe bulbs are properly focused. The members of the motor patrol have re- «ceived instructions as to focusing of ‘bulbs and will aid the driver in mak- ing the adjustment. “One-eyed” cars will not be permitted to operate. The patrol cannot prevent bulbs from burning out, but motorists, being ac- customed to carry spare tires with them, will hereafter be required to carry extra bulbs, so that at all times their headlamps and taillamps will be burning. Obscure Plates.—Cars will not be permitted to operate on which the li- cense plates are obscured by bumpers or tire carriers. There are a number of makes of bumpers the general €rend of which is to obscure license plates, and the operators will be com- pelled to replace their tags so that at all times, as required by law, they are plainly visible. Plates must be free from dirt. No driver will be permit- ted to operate his car who purposely bends the tag so that only four or five of the numerals can be read. Brakes.—From time to time the motor patrol will stop automobiles and require a demonstration of brake conditions. If the brakes are not in wroper adjustment the driver will be sent {o the nearest garage and re- «quired to have them put in condition. Weights.—The motor patrol will be watchful of those who overload their #rucks, and will prosecute drivers found to be carrying 250 pounds in excess of the weight allowed for the -warious truck classes. The patrol will work in conjunction with the high- way department’s motor transport Survey. Parking.—The State Highway’s rule No. 2 will be rigidly enforced and no parking will be permitted on any state highway so as to interfere with #he ordinary passage of two-way traf- Hic. No exceptions will be made. No «car or truck may stop for any pur- pose where it interferes with the pas- sage of two-way traffic. Rule No. 2 zalso covers the operation of cars at wurves or on hills. Horse-Drawn Vehicles.—The State aw which requires that at night torse-drawn vehicles display a light will be rightly enforced. Mirrors.—The motor patrol will re- quire that the law be obeved which compels either a clear vision to the Year or a mirror. Spotlights.—No spotlight may be used the rays from which fall to the Xeft of the center of the radiator. Traffic Lines.—At curves or on hills ‘where the state highway department has painted white traffic lines the mo- dor patrol will insist that drivers stay on their own side of the white line; and immediate arrest will take place when drivers disfigure these lines when the paint is still wet. _ Pedestrians.—The motor patrol is instructed that the right of pedes- Lrians is as great as the right of ve- ‘icles. The patrol will suggest to pe- destrians the advisability always of walking toward traffic rather than with traffic, as is now too f in ae, oo frequently When a motorist is stopped b Patrolman, his driver's on ill be 50 punched that thereafter it will be @ record against him and this record will also show on the cards filled at Harrisburg. The department will be particular- Ty severe on reckless drivers. The law gives the highway commissioner vower to revoke a license without ‘warning, and cases of glaring reck- Iessness when reported to Harrisburg will be followed immediately by loss of the offender’s license. ‘The department announced that _ members of the new motor patrol will : headquarters in 26 Pennsylvania <Eowns and cities. “The stations are as follows: __fAt Factoryville, Doylestown, Stroudsburg, Downingtown, Lanecas- ter, Pottsville, Harrisburg, Muncy, Towanda, Wellsboro, Lock Haven, Lewistown, Chambersburg, Bedford, ¥bensburg, Clearfield, Coudersport, Warren, Brookville, Erie, Franklin, Butler, Greensburg, Uniontown, Washington and Wyoming. _The patrolman stationed in the mu- ‘nicipalities mentioned will cover the ferritory within a radius of 30 miles of ‘their headquarters. This method will wesult in an overlapping which will in- «rease the efficiency of the patrol. Another Kid Joke. _ Tits Shap Sijbey on his fath- nee an id: « y an 5 is and os Daddy, can you Somswha surprised, the sire ask- de tricky what do you mean, son, And in all innocence the little lad mesponded: “Well, mamma says that when you were youn drink Tike a fish? © You used to AMAZING FEATS BY WOMAN Hindu Female’s Remarkable Show of Strength Due to Strange Power Taught Her by Fakirs. There have recently come to light some extraordinary feats of strength by a Hindu woman, which should cause men of today to think twice be- fore referring to women as the weaker Sex. The woman in question is Miss Tara- bai, born some thirty years ago in a small village in Rajputana. At the age of seven she was left an orphan and adopted by fakirs (holy men), with whom she remained for several years, disguised as a boy. It was by these men that she was in- itiated into the mysteries of breath control and the power of commanding her physical and mental forces. Suspended between two chairs by her head and feet, Miss Tarabai has a large stone placed on her chest, while two men pound npon it with heavy sledge-hammers. But this did not affect her. Miss Tarabal then laid down upon the ground and a cart laden with men and boys was drawn across her chest and arms. She was protected only by a pad, but she did not flinch, She thinks nothing of raising from the ground a stone weighing 240 pounds by means of ropes tied to her hair. It is the remarkable power of di- recting all her energies she possesses to any particular part of her body at will that enables her to lie for sev- eral minutes on the sharp points of five spears and to push backward a laden cart by pressing with her head against the sharp point of a spear fas- tened to its shafts.—Strand Magazine. CAT AND DOG LOSE ENMITY Felines in New York Tenement Dis. tricts No Longer Show Fear, and Canines Ignore Them. Even nature seems to pe changing in this age of knickered flappers and cake eaters. Remember when the sight of the lit- tlest pug dog was a terror to the scampering cats? It isn’t that way any more. Close living has changed the game, When the houses were rods apart the cat took no chances on the strange dog next door, but in the courts and back yards of the Bronx and Manhat- | tan cliff dwellers one can see some- times a dozen cats sunning themselves of an afternoon and gazing with bored yellow eyes at the dogs of the neigh- bors. The dogs seem more intent on their daily airing than in worrying about cats. And the cats don’t seem to al- low fear to interrupt their afternoon siestas. There are not nearly so many teeth- scarred felines now as in the old days, when they ran froma dogs. Puss, it would appear, has learned that ancient oriental proverb: “To escape danger, go ye into the very heart of it. There will ye find safety.”—New York Sun and Globe. Pawn Children in Liberia. Girls are equivalent to money in Li- beria, Sister Jennie Larmonth, who re- cently returned to Baltimore after five years’ missionary work in Liberia, said the other day. She was stationed at Kpolopele, a three-day trip in ham- mocks, borne by negroes, from the coast. When fathers of Liberia are in need of money they frequently pawn their daughters and sons, and seldom are they redeemed, Sister Jennie said. A girls is also worth a great deal to the native Liberian in the interior be- cause the parents receive a dowry from her husband at her marriage, and even after the wedding they can, at any time, demand more from the husband. “Girls are married at fourteen or sixteen. I once knew a native king,” said Sister Jennie, “who had 150 wives.” “The Liberians have their native schools, where they are taught crafts, such as mat weaving, and where, it is said, they learn -also the secret of their medicines and native dyes. The schools are in the ‘bush,’ as the na- tives call their forests.”-—Baltimore Sun. It’s All in the State of Mind. If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you’d like to win, but think you can’t It’s almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost, For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow's will, It’s all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are; You've got to think high to rise, You've got to hustle before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can, Alas, Poor Man! A man accompanied by his wife en- tered a downtown clothing store to purchase a suit of clothes. The couple differed as to the material and the style, and the wife lost her temper. “Oly, well,” she sald, turning away, “please yourself. I suppose you are the one who will wear the clothes.” “Well,” observed the husband, meek- ly, “I didn’t suppose you'd want to wear the coat and vest.”—Boston Transcript. HEADLESS HORSEMAN RIDES Ghost Goes Forth Nightly in Sleepy Hollow in Search of Head Lost in Battle. The graveyard of the old Dutel church, Tarrytown, N. Y¥., is described by Washington Irving at the beginning of the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” “On the Tappan Zee there lies a small market town or rural port known by the name of Tarrytown. Not far from this village there is a little valley which is one of the quietest spots in the world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmurs enough to lull one to repose.” The enchanted region of Sleepy Hol- low is haunted by the apparition of a figure on horseback, who in a mythical battle had lost his head. “Certain of the more authentic his- torians,” continues the author, “allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of bat- tle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow is owing to his being in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before day- break.” Just below the bridge flows the brook, and near the church bridge Ichabod Crane had his terrifying en- | Plumbing and Heating HEAR MOANS IN MOUNTAINS | counter with the headless horseman.— Detroit News. Peculiar Sounds Heard in the Chilear Andes—Peak in England Screams. A deep note to be heard at certain seasons of the year proceeding from the mountain of El Bramador, in the i Chilean Andes, is one of the weirdest sounds in the world. In former days the natives listened to it with super- stitious fear, while even a white man, hearing it for the first time, is startled at the mountain’s “powers.” Another curious mountain exists in Nevada, though this one usually gives out a note resembling at first the jingling of bells, and ending with a deep, organ-like swell. In both cases the sounds are due to a peculiar formation of the earth, which under certain conditions of weather allows the separate particles to rub against each other and so pro- duce uncanny effects. In England is a mountain which howls in such a way that formerly it was supposed to be the haunt of de- mons. This is Cross Fell, in West- moreland, where local conditions pro- duce a gale with several peculiarities, including an awe-inspiring scream that at times can be heard for miles. A Chagrined Sea Fighter. Outside the harbor of Charlotte amalie, on the coast of St. Thomas island, a huge rock looms out of the sea. Sail Rock it is called, and it bears a startling resemblance to a ship. As I gazed upon it, says Mr. A, Hyatt Verrill in his book “In the Wake of the Buccaneers,” I could not blame the bellicose captain of a French frigate who a century and more ago sighted the rock one night and, mistaking it for a privateer, ran close and hailed fit. No response came back. Again he hailed, and as still no response came he blazed a broadside at the shadowy mass. Back came the echoing thunder of the cannonade, and the rebounding shot, falling on the frigate’s deck, con- vinced the Frenchman that the priva- teer was returning his fire, For hours the battle raged; the French gunners poured broadside after broadside at the massive cliff. Not until day dawned did the deluded com- | mander of the frigate discover his mistake. Then, crestfallen and morti- fied, he crept away, leaving Sail Rock unscathed and triumphant.—Youth’s Companion, He Had Stolen Her Heart. Zllen, the cook, was of a suspicious aature. She distrusted mankind in general and banks in particular; she never banked her frugal savings. Part of her wages were hoarded in a stocking in some obscure corner of her room. Ellen's ‘gentleman friend” was the neighboring butcher, and as the friendship had proved enduring her mistress was not astonished when the girl announced her pending mar- riage. “And I want to ask you, mum,” said Ellen, “what's the best way to put my money in the bank?” Her mistress regarded her in aston- ishment. “Why, Ellen, I thought you didn't believe in banks!” “No more I do, mum,” replied the girl, “but since I'm going to be mar- ried next week I kinder feel the money would be safer in the bank than in the house with a strange man about, = The Argonaut. Fashions in Wives Vary. Fashions in wives are not quite so capricious as fashions in clothes— they vary with decades instead of with seasons. It wasn't so long ago that the “ash-tray wife” was the most ap- proved model of femininity. “Eliza- beth” immortalizes her in “The Cara- vaners,” we remember: “Indeed, the perfect woman does not talk at all. Who wants to hear, her? All that we ask of her is that she shall listen in- telligently when we wish, for a change, to tell about our own thoughts, and that she should be at hand when we want anything. Surely this is not much to ask. Matches, ash trays, and one's wife should be, so to speak, on every table; and I maintain that the perfect wife copies the conduct of the matches and the ash trays, and combines being useful with being dumb.” ATTAINS LOWEST TEMPERATURE. What is the lowest temperature on record, 458 degrees below zero, Fah- renheit, was attained recently by Professor H. K. Onnes, of the Uni- versity of Leyden, Holland. The bu- reau of standards in Washington pub- lishes the facts concerning this achievement in telling of Professor Onnes’ efforts to solidify helium gas. All other bases except helium having been liquefied and solidified, the Dutch savant turned to helium for his record-breaking experiment. It will be recalled that helium gas is the lifting agent for the ZR-1, our navy’s newest and greatest airship, and that it has the great merit of be- ing non-inflammable. For that rea- son alone it is priceless for the light- er-than-air flying machines, and America is the only country able to produce it in quantity. Professor Onnes used eighteen pumps in parallel in his effort to es- tablish the perfect vaccuum that might solidify the helium gas. He nearly succeeded, for his pumps pro- duced an almost perfect vacuum, the pressure being only one 65,000th part Caldwell & Son BELLEFONTE, PA. By Hot Water Vapor Steam Pipeless Furnaces Full Line of Pipe and Fittings AND MILL SUPPLIES ALL SIZES OF Terra Cotta Pipe and Fittings : Estimates Cheerfully and Promptly Furnished. 66-15-tf of an atmosphere. In reaching this he scientist obtained the record low tl | temperature and came within 82- 100ths of a degree of absolute zero. The next lowest temperature ever re- corded was within 1.05 degrees of ab- solute zero, so Professor Onnes’ fig- ures mark a new low record.—New York World. WOODPECKERS FLY SOUTH. Dr. B. H. Warren, of West Chester, former State ornithologist, has re- ceived a letter from his friend E. H. Forbush, State ornithologist, of Mas- sachusetts, that for some reason the American three-toed woodpeckers, which have been very numerous in the Bay State, are having a flight and are leaving that section in large num- bers, and will, no doubt, be found in considerable numbers in pine or cone bearing trees in Pennsylvania. There have been a few seen here only, in former years. The late Dr. Isaiah Everhart, of Scranton, obtained two or three for his fine museum. They are not usually seen in this State, but evidently will stop here in their flight. Speaking of birds, a few robins are still seen on the lawns of West Ches- ter, the mild fali having caused them to defer their flight to the south, and blackbirds are still here, but the birds, which resemble the black birds and remain about the same time, are star- lings, an English importation. The starling is not as black nor as long as the American black bird and are even more predatory than the native bird. The starling frequents the towns in winter and will be seen in the back yards as a garbage collector. In the spring they use the nests of other birds and deposit eggs in them and are robbers of wren nests. It is prop- er for lovers of birds to erect small houses for the wrens to protect the little birds from these robbers. EERE, . L. FOSTER, President just missed success. OAPITAL $125,000.00 68-10 HowThickis a Dollar Bill? OT VERY THICK—is it? thickness of the dollar bill they failed to bank, thousands of people have Bank Account HERE is thick enough to support a man from disaster. Open an Account Today The First National Bank of State College State College, Pennsylvania =x DAVID F. KAPP, Cashler. Yet, by the The dollar bill in a SURPLUS $125,000.00 | mm— Number of Applicants . . . Number of shares applied for . 624,365 Number of shares to be issued 200,000 Applications for Plan of Allotment The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania aN $20,000,000 64% Cumulative Preferred Stock HE following figures indicate the over- subscription to the $20,000,000 of 64% Cumulative Preferred Stock of this Company. 93,987 The plan which has been arranged for allot- ting shares is as follows: 1to4 Shares . . . . 1 Share 5to8Shares . . . . 2 Shares 9to12 Shares . . . . 3 Shares 13to16 Shares . . + . 4 Shares 17to 20 Shares . . « . Two or more applications from the same person will be grouped and considered as one application. Between December 20 and January 1 a bill for the number of shares allotted will be mailed to each person who has made applica- tion for stock. : No payments are to be made until this bill is received. The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania Shares Allotted 5 Shares
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