Deworraii Walden
Bellefonte, Pa., April 25, 1924.
Shakespeare Forgeries
Brought Good Prices
The largest collection of Shake-
spearean forgeries ever assembled, the
forgeries of William Henry Ireland in
the latter part of the Eighteenth cen-
tury, over which James Boswell wept
tears of thanks and one of which Sher-
idan bought for production in his thea-
ter without suspecting its authenticity,
has been acquired by the Rosenbach
company of New York in the purchase
of the library of Shakespeareana, be-
longing to Marsden J. Perry.
The Ireland forgeries, as related in
the Kansas City Star recently, are the
most notorious in English literature
and include the supposed manuscripts
of such important plays as “King Lear”
and “Hamlet,” and the pretended dis-
covery of an entirely new Shake-
spearean play called “Vortigern and
Rowena.”
These forgeries, which deceived
many of the most eminent men of the
time, seem all the more remarkable
when it is known that the perpetrator
was a boy barely eighteen years old.
Sheridan paid $1,500 for the rights to
produce “Vortigern and Rowena” and
agreed to share equally the profits
from its production with young Ireland.
The New York Herald quotes Dr. A.
S. W. Rosenbach as saying:
“At the sale of the elder Ireland’s
library the Shakespeare papers were
purchased by a Mr. Dent, M. P,, for
£640. This is the first record of their
material value. Years later the ma-
jority of them—all the better pieces—
were acquired by Marsden J. Perry,
from whom the Rosenbach company
purchased them. The uniqueness of
the works and their historical interest
have made this value steadily mount.”
Ranch Woman Rescued
by Intelligent Dogs
Our Animals is authority for one of
the most striking illustrations of
canine intelligence and devotion of
which we have ever read, related by
Mrs, Ruby Pettis, a ranch woman at
Sherar Bridge, Ore., says Our Dumb
Animals. It is that while driving at
dusk, from a neighboring ranch, the
loaded wagon was overturned in
rounding a curve, and she was pinned
beneath, unable to move hand or foot.
She was imprisoned for 15 hours. Her
shepherd dogs, Jack and Pup (his
mother) saved her life from several
menaces.
Iirst, they stopped the horses, sav-
ing their mistress from being crushed
to death by the wagon. Then they bur-
rowed frantically under the wagon, re- |
moving from ler face the earth that.
would have suftfocated her. They re-
peatedly repelled the insistent ad-!
vances of a herd of hogs. They licked |
from their mistress’ face the blood
that flowed from nose and mouth, and |
prevented her suffocation. The crown- |
ing work of these faithful animals was |
to sweep with their paws, from the
hole they liad dug, the water from a |
rain that fell during the night, work- |
ing alternately all night and saving |
the woman from drowning.
At eleven o'clock the next morning
a ranch hand, attracted by the frantic
barking of the dogs, rescued Mrs. Pet
tis.’
Showing a Tire’s Work
An automobile tire company displays
mn its salesrooms in New York one of
the most perfect machines yet devised
for demonstrating the working of a
tire under road conditions. Mounted
on a heavy stand, a big iron drum is
driven by an clectric motor. An axie
and wheel are mounted over the drum,
with the tire in contact with it and
bearing its weight. The tire is under
the same pressure as if on a loaded
touring car. The test, a most severe
one, consists in driving nails, spikes,
etc., into the tire and tube and then
runing with them in at a rate of about
twenty-five miles an hour. The ma-
chine is operated by electric power,
and is also equipped with a speedome-
ter, which gives a correct speed of
wheel, as if in real road use.
New Kind of Milk Bottle
Getting the milk out of a bottle
while leaving the cream always has
presented something of a problem. The
usual method is to pour the cream off;
the round-mouthed type of milk bottle
makes this method somewhat difficult.
Ray Dunn of Tipton, Ind. says Pop-
ular Science Monthly, has now provid
ed t.e ordinary milk bottle with a
small hole in its bottom. A cork keeps
this hole closed. When it is wished
to draw off the milk, the cork is re
moved and the milk allowed to flow
into another receptacle until it is all
gone.
Buenos Aires Enjoys Boom
Buenos Aires is growing faster prob-
ably than any other city in South
America and its population is now said
to be beyond the 2,000,000 mark, and
conditions are troublesome to the au
thorities because housing legislation
cannot be executed fast enough to keep
up with the strides of the city. Im
migration from abroad and from other
provinces Is very rapid.
Electricity in Homes
in percentage of electrically lighted
aomes Illinois is the leader. Having
¢.1 per cent of the nation’s popula-
tion, she has over 10 per cent of all
the homes in the United States with
electric service—or about 850,000. Sec:
ond among the states is California;
third 1s New York,
Che
COTTAGE ==
GARDENERGZS
To Supply Table
With Vegetables
Coldframe Is Advocated as
Means of Providing the
Crispy Greens.
Kitchen gardens were a necessary
adjunct to the home in the earlier days,
but at present a kitchen coldframe is
advocated as a means of supplying the
family table with fresh lettuce, pars-
ley, radishes, cress, and other vegeta-
bles at periods of the year when it is
too cold to grow these things in the
open ground. While it is true that the
coldframe may not give very good re-
sults during the winter months, espe-
cially in the northern part of the coun-
try, yet in the early spring excellent
results may be had from its use, ac-
cording to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The construction of a eoldframe is
comparatively simple, as the side walls
may be made of boards, brick, hollow
tile or concrete. Where the construc-
tion is of boards, cypress lumber should
be used, and it is a good plan to have
the walls made double and some dry
straw or planing mill shavings packed
in the space between them. If the
walls are of brick, they should be
plastered, both inside and out, to make
them air-tight. Hollow-tile walls
should also be plastered the same as
brick.
One of the best types of construction
is simply to put in a little foundation,
then set up frames and tamp in well-
mixed concrete consisting of about
three parts clean, broken stone or
gravel, two parts sharp sand and one
part cement. The ingredients should
be placed on a mixing board or in a
box and thoroughly mixed while dry,
then water added gradually and the
mass turned three or four times untii
it is thoroughly mixed and is of a con-
sistency that can readily be tamped as
it is put Into the forms.
The size of coldframe to build wiil
depend upon circumstances. Standard
coldirame or hotbed sash are 3 by ©
feet in size and the frame may be con-
structed to accommodate one, two, or
even as high as five or six of these
sash. The front or south wall of ihe
coldframe should be about 12 inches in
height, while the rear or north wan
should be 24 to 30 inches high, and
the ends sloping to correspond witn
the front and rear walls. Wooden
plates, preferably of 2 hy 6 cypress
material, should be bedded on top of
the wall and held in place by boits
A Well-Constructed Ccldframe.
that extend down into the concrete.
Rafters upon which the sash rest are
fitted to these plates. At the upper
side of the bed a sort of overhung
board should be put on in such man-
ner that the end of the sash will slide
up beneath it, making the bed tight.
The lower end of the sash should ex-
tend slightly over the edge of the bed
to carry off the water.
In addition to the sash covering,
straw mats, blankets or even old car-
pet may be used to keep out cold.
Where the coldframe can be located
on the south side of the garage, this
will give it extra protection. A well-
constructed bed of this character will
provide lettuce and other salad crops
without the application of artificial
heat. Plants may be started in the
living room during February and plant-
ed in the bed in March, giving a sup-
ply of salad for the table during the
months or until outdoor let-
radishes and spinach can be
snring
nue,
grown,
ORNAMENTAL BARBERRY
Thunberg's barberry, one of the Jap-
anese barberries, is a handsome orna-
mental and defensive hedge plant. It
will grow four or five feet high and as
many broad. It may be left without
trimming or be trained into a compact
formal hedge. It bears an abundance
of bright red berries that hold on the
plant all winter, but does not harbor
the wheat-rust fungus.
LIKE RICH SOIL
Annual flowers especially responding
to rich soil: Castor-bean, scarlet sage,
palsam and china bean.
Edison Says Few Men
Have Real Imagination
There is a lack of men capable of
designing automatic machinery, says
Thomas A. Edison in System. We are
increasing our knowledge of the possi-
bilities of automatic machinery at the
rate of 100 and we are increasing the
men capable of putting the ideas into
effect at two. No educational or tech-
nical institution that I know of is even
attempting to develop men for this all-
important phase of industry.
This is an extremely serious problem.
I had much less trouble getting men
forty years ago than I have today.
The men of today seem to lack imagi-
nation. I have examined 1,800 men for
positions in the last two years. I took
80 of them and of that 80 only 85
lasted. I test out the men with a
questionnaire, in which I put five little
mathematical problems which I took
from a child’s schoolbook on arithme-
tic. Not one man as yet has correctly
answered all five of the problems.
It seems somehow that in the mod-
ern system of education the “vferage
boy’s brain stops somewnere between
the elementary school and the second-
ary school—that is, when he Is about
fourteen years old—and thereafter he
takes no interest in knowing anything.
I find that unless a boy has become in-
terested in some subject—it does not
make much difference what it is—
before he is fourteen, he never there-
after masters anything, but is content
to be led or driven.
Industry is the result of the efforts
of man, and I think a large part of
the work bettering industry will have
to begin with the education of the boy.
America Gathering All
the Diamonds and Gold
The National City bank of New York
discloses the somewhat appalling truth
that about half the world’s present
supply of diamonds is now held in the
United States. In the last fifty years
we have spent approximately $2,000,
000,000 in the acquisition of these
trifies, but since the war we have been
importing them at the astounding rate
of $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 worth a
vear, and it appears that only a simul-
taneous exhaustion of both Kimberley
and the European crown jewel supplies
will check the influx.
Already about one-half of the world’s
$9,000,000,000 worth of monetary gold
has been amassed in our vaults. Pre
cious stones are not currency, but they
can perform an approximately similar
function in international exchange,
and we appear to be withdrawing this
last form of portable real wealth from
Europe as rapidly as we are reducing
her gold. The more we have the more
rapidly we accumulate, and while we
are relieving the rest of the world of
its cash, we are taking the jewelry as
well,
The suggestion of highway rebbery
is too strong for European cartoonists
to resist; but the melancholy truth is
that we regret the situation fully as
much as our apparent victims. But as
a nation we are as powerless to do any-
thing about it as they are.—New York
Sun and Globe.
It Works Both Ways
A farmer driving along a country
road was thus accosted by a young
man:
“Hello, Reuben!
Boontown, will you
The young man climbed up and be-
guiled the time with lively chatter.
After a few miles had been traveled,
he said:
“It's quite a distance to Boontown,
isn’t it?”
“Quite a distance,”
farmer.
After a few more miles the young
man asked: “Say, farmer, how far is
it to Boontown, anyway?”
“Well,” replied the farmer, “keepin’
right on the way ye're goin’ now, I
should say it would be about twenty-
five thousand miles or so; but if you
wanted to git out and walk back, it
wouldn't be very much more than ten
miles.”
Give me a lift to
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answered the
Not Prodigal Enough
In many parts of Mexico hot springs
and cold springs are found side by
side. One can see native women boil-
ing clothes in a hot spring, rubbing
them on a flat rock and rinsing them
in a clear cold spring.
A visitor watched this process for
some time and then said:
“I suppose the natives think old
Mother Nature is pretty generous, eh?”
“No, senor,” responded his host.
“There is much grumbling because she
supplies no soap.”—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Family or Social Wage
The law passed in France last year
sroviding an annual allowance of 90
francs ($17.37 par) for each child that
is under thirteen years of age in excess
of three children in French families is
proving popular. This allowance will
be granted to all children up to sixteen
vears of age if the children are still in
school, apprenticed or invalided or in-
surably ill. The departments of the
:ommune may increase this allowance
from their funds if they desire. These
allowances are now termed the “fam-
lly or social wage.”
Another Case
Johnson—So her father didn’t favor
gour calling on his only daughter?
Tillery—I should say not. He came
into the parlor and said: “Young man,
it’s time my daughter retired and time
you went home—and you need not be
in any hurry to call again.”
Johnson—He did?
Tillery—Yes, he did. Now what
would you call such conduct.
Johnson—Contempt of court,
Have you seen our Mens’ and Young Mens’
2-Pants Suits at,
$25. $27.50 - =a - $30.
They are Wonderful Values.
them to you.
A. FAUBLE
Let. us show
Responsibilities
The Public are more than users of
telephone service.
They, and no one else, provide
the money necessary to conduct
the business, and look to the busi-
ness to pay adequately on that
investment.
The public tell us what to do,
when to do it,and where to doit.
They tell us how much service
they want, and when and where
they want it.
We take these figures and find
out what it will cost to install
the telephones, along with the
central office
cables 2nd buildings needed.
Then we must go to the public
for the new money necessary to
uipment, wires,
finance these additions.
us for t
The tolsphone using public pay
eir service, and they
must pay us enough so that we
can pay back to the same public,
as investors, a reasonable return
on the money they put into the
business.
Or it might be summed up this way: Telephone rates must
be adequate to enable us to make a reasonable return on the
money invested in the business. Otherwise the public will
not invest the new money needed to give the tremendous
BRoL of new telephone service which is required by the people
of this State.
THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF PENNSYLVANIA
L. H. KINNARD, President
Tenth of a series of adver-
tisements regarding the
present te
program in Pennsylvania.
hone service
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Czar’s Cutlery Used in Restaurant.
London.—Cutlery that once graced
the tables of the Czars of Russia is
now in use in a dingy restaurant in
Islington, one of the semi-slum bor-
oughs of this city.
There are six hundred knives, each
bearing the royal arms of Russia en-
graved upon the blade. When they
came into the possession of the pres-
ent owner they all had handles of sol-
id gold, but those used in the restau-
rant have bone handles fitted, “for ob-
vious reasons,” according to the pro-
prietor.
Answered.
_ The bus was making its early morn-
ing trip to connect with the train on
a branch line in Mississippi. It was
filled with half-awake passengers
with the exception of one very talka
tive traveling salesman. Failing ti
start the usual conversation, he turn
ed to the negro driver.
“Sambo,” he said, “why in thunde
did they put this station so far fron
the town?”
“Don’t know boss,” said the sleep:
negro, “cep’in’ it is dey wants it o:
de railroad.”