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
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| 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.
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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
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$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