Bewuraifatdan.
Belefonte, Pa., May 9, 1924.
WHY
Weather Forecasting Is of
Great Value.
In connection with the modern sys-
tem of weather forecasting, it is in-
teresting to know its origin and his-
tory. Scientific weather forecasts de-
pend upon the rapid collection of the
reports of meteorclogical observations
taken at places scattered over a wide
expanse of territory. This process was
not, of course, possible before the in-
vention of the electric telegraph, says
the United States Department of Agri-
culture.
The earliest experiments in forecast-
ing with the aid of telegraphic reports
were probably those of Prof. Joseph
Henry of the Smithsonian institution,
made in 1849. The first national fore-
casting service, however, was estab-
lished in France in 1855, and was the
result of an episode of the Crimean
war. In November, 1854, a severe
storm did much damage to the French
and British warships in the Black sea.
The French astronomer, Le Verrier,
director of the Observatory of Paris,
made a study of this storm and came to
the conclusion that, with the aid of
telegraphic reports, its eastward prog-
ress across Europe might have been
predicted so that the disaster to the
ships could have been averted. This
idea led to the foundation of the
French meteorological service,
In this country the establishment of
a similar service was frequently rec-
ommended by scientific authorities, in-
cluding the famous Lieutenant Maury
and Dr. I. A. Lapham of Wisconsin,
and finally, in 1869, an experimental
service was established in the Cincin-
nati observatory by the late Prof.
Cleveland Abbe, with the aid of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
Professor Abbe’s experiments in weath-
er forecasting were so successful that
congress was induced to establish a
national service, one of the principal
duties of which was forecasting the
weather. This service was originally
attached to the signal corps of the
army, but since the year 1890 it has
been a branch of the Department of
Agriculture,
Pidgin English Used
by Natives of Guam
Pidgin-English would sound phony
to one who had never roamed the
wilds of Guam. I was attached to the
radio station there for nearly two
years, and this is exactly the way the
natives used to talk to us, and we to
them. There's a peculiarity of inflec-
tion, sort of a singsong jump and flop
to the Guam native’s conversation
that’s difficult to describe. He sings
you a song when he talks to you. This,
I suppose, is owing to the narrow limi-
tations of their owa language. Their
entire vocabulary comprising not more
than 400 words, they have to make
one word do the work of many, de-
pending more on tone of voice thar
pronunciation.
For instance, the word affa. It
means anything they make it mean.
You see a native woman coming along,
leading a child by the hand. The
kid's a little slow on the lead, its
attention on a goat, pig, chicken just
passed, thus causing the old lady
much irritation. She turns in her
wrath, with her bare foot gives the
kid a side swipe on the rump and
snarls—
“Affa!”
Two minutes later the same wom- |
an meets a friend. She smiles sweet-
ly, bows sedately and softly murmurs:
“Affa.”
it’s all in the tune.—By Charles Vie-
tor [Fischer, in Adventure Magazine.
Love Is Blind
Viola will never go into a barbe:
shop again. She says so herself. “My
husband went into the barber shop
next to our home and as I wanted him
to go downtown with me I thought
I'd step in and wait for him. There
was a man in every chair and each
of them had a towel over his face.
“Finally I spotted a pair of shoes
and a silk shirt that I thought be-
longed to my hushand, and while the
barber turned away for a moment I
went to the chair, took the hand of
my suspected husband, squeezed it
and said: ‘Hello, dearie.’
“Imagine how I felt when a corne:i
of the towel lifted and an amazed face
I had never seen before stared at
me blankly!”
Bank Director Who Directs
An aged darkey was renewing ac-
quaintances in a section of the eity
where he had once resided.
“Well, Henry,” said the drug stor.
elerk, “what y’ doing now?”
“Lawdy, man,” replied Henry boast.
fully, “I'se done got a magnolious po-
sition. TI'se a bank directah.”
“You, the director of a bank?”
“Deed I is, boss. I jes’ stan’ dare
an’ when folkses comes through de do,
I directs ’em whah t’ go.”
So It Goes
“There are no great actors any
more.”
“I don’t know,” said the old-timer.
“The fault may be largely vested in
ourselves: In the old days actors used
to yell and we registered emotion. Now
they are repressed and so are we, Wg
approve the repressed school and yet
we say there are no great actors any
more."—Loulsvillg Courler-Journal,
LEWIS, THE ROBBER.
By permission of Frederic A. God-
charles, author, of Milton, Pa., we
herewith publish the second install-
ment of his absorbing story of the es-
capades of Lewis, the robber.—Ed.
Last week’s story was a brief out-
line of the early lite of David Lewis,
the robber and counterfeiter, and in
this will be told those events which
followed and ended in his death.
In 1818 Dr. Peter Shoenberger,
owner of the Huntingdon Furnace, in
Huntingdon county, had made exten-
sive shipments of iron to Harper's
Ferry and prepared to cross the moun-
tains to receive his pay. Lewis and
his band knew of this proposed trip
and determined to waylay and rob
him. The sum to be collected amount-
ed to more than $13,000, and the iron-
master’s credit would be ruined if this
sum was not on deposit in Bellefonte
by a certain date.
While they were scheming to rob
Shoenberger news reached them that
their victim was returning home by
way of the Cumberland Valley and
Harrisburg.
When Lewis and his gang arrived
at Harrisburg they learned that the
doctor, warned of their designs, had
again changed his route, but the high-
waymen knew the country and soon
got in advance of their victim. In the
early hours of the morning, a few
miles east of Bellefonte, the doctor
was confronted by a large man on
horseback, who, with a pistol in hand,
ordered him to “stand and deliver.”
The doctor was in a dilemma; he
faced financial ruin or loss of life. As
he reached for his saddlepag he heard
a shout and at the same time saw the
top of a Conestoga wagon reaching
the top of the hill. The wagoners
were encouraging their horses as the
doctor yelled in desperation, “Men I
am being robbed. Help! Help!”
Lewis snapped his pistol but it fail-
ed to discharge. Connelly, a mate of
Lewis, rode up and would have killed
the doctor but for Lewis. A shot by
one of the wagoners struck Connelly
in the shoulder, but he and Lewis es-
caped in the woods.
During his operations in New York
city he formed a partnership with oth-
er noted crooks. Each one signed an
iron-clad compact with blood drawn
from the veins of each member as
they formed in a circle, while Lewis
held a basin to receive the blood of
each, which was used as ink.
ROBBED MRS. ASTOR.
Lewis knew that Mrs. John Jacob
Astor was to attend a well-advertised
auction sale, where she made many
purchases of rare laces and jewelry,
placing them in a reticule, which she
kept on a bench close by her side.
While she was engaged in conversa-
tion Lewis stole the bag and made his
escape. He failed to divide the plun-
der with the gang, but gave it all to
his wife, barely escaping their wrath.
Lewis headed for Princeton, where,
he said, he found “empty heads and
full purses.” He succeeded in fleec-
ing many of the students of all the
money they had or could obtain.
His next exploits were in Philadel-
phia, where he was the leader of a
band which attempted to decoy Steph-
en Girard out of the city into the
i country, to keep him in confinement
until forced to purchase his freedom.
They also planned to dig a tunnel
from the Dock street sewer to Gi-
rard’s banking house, where they in-
tended to reach the bank vaults from
below. The dangerous illness of Lew-
is’ daughter caused a delay in these
plans, his gang drifted apart and the
scheme was abandoned.
He then drove a team in the United
States Army, where he robbed officers
and men. When he received his pay
for his services and for his employer’s
teams and wagons, he stole the entire
proceeds and left for western Penn-
sylvania, where he was most active
and successful in his nefarious pur-
suit.
His wife died about this time and
i his grief was so genuine that he al-
! most changed his mode of life, but
| soon fell in with another gang and
| for some time devoted his attention
i to making and circulating spurious
i money. He was caught passing bad
i money and arrested in Bedford and
: sentenced to the penitentiary, from
| which he was pardoned by Governor
Findlay.
FREES ALL PRISONERS BUT ONE.
Lewis and his band robbed a Mr.
McClelland, who was riding from
Pittsburgh to Bedford. Lewis saved
McClelland’s life when Connelly in-
sisted on shooting him, saying “Dead
men tell no tales.” Lewis was again
caught and confined in the Bedford
| jail. He not only escaped, but he set
all the convicts free who entered into
the plan with him, leaving benind “an
ordinary thief who had robbed a poor
widow. Such a thief should remain in
jail and pay the price,” wrote Lewis
in his confession.
Lewis and Connelly made a trip
through York and Cumberland coun-
| ties robbing wealthy German farmers.
A well-laid plot to rob a wealthy Mr.
Bashore was frustrated through the
presence of mind and bravery of his
wife, who blew a horn to alarm the
neighborhood, as Lewis confessed,
| “displaying as much courage as any
man and more resolution than any
woman I had met with.”
On several occasions he was known
to have risked capture, and even his
life, just to spend a few hours with
his mother, whom he dearly loved.
Lewis learned that a wagon load of
merchandise belonging to Hamilton
and Page, of Bellefonte, was expect-
ed to pass through the Seven moun-
tains. He and his gang quickly plan-
ned and successfully executed this
robbery, and immediately thereafter
made a rich haul from the store of
General James Potter, of Penn’s val-
ley, near the Old Fort.
Lewis was smart as a steel trap and
a shrewd mountaineer, but like all
such criminals of his daring was sure
to meet his fate. Even though fre-
quently arrested and confined in jail,
none was strong enough to hold him.
He never served a sentence in a sin-
gle institution.
After the robbery of General Pot-
ter’s store, Lewis and Connelly start-
ed for Sinnemahoning, meeting at the
house of Samuel Smith, where they
participated in shooting at a mark,
and mingled in the crowd. Lewis and
Connelly were recognized and their
surrender demanded as rewards were
everywhere offered for their arrest.
Connelly opened fire, killing one of the
captors.
Lewis, never having taken life,
snapped his pistol twice in the air,
but the fire was returned in earnest,
Lewis being shot in the right arm and
Connelly in the hip. The latter was
found hiding in a tree top. Lewis and
Connelly were loaded in canoes and
taken down the river to Great Island,
now Lock Haven, where three physi-
cians attended them. Connelly died
that night. Lewis was removed, as
soon as his wounds would permit, to
the Bellefonte jail, where he died a
month later, July 13, 1820.
Thus a sad commentary in the life
of Lewis, the robber, that the only jail
from which he failed to escape was the
Bellefonte bastile, and while there his
wounds were of such a nature he
could not plan nor did he desire to es-
cape, but he often told his jailer he
could easily get away any hour he
pleased.
Leal Estate Transfers.
J. L. Winegardner, Exr., to Bland
Frankenberger, tract in Millheim;
$925.
F. R. Musser, et ux, to W. J. Emer-
ick, tract in State College; $900.
C. O. Harvey, et al, to Sylvia E.
Pletcher, tract in Howard township;
$1,000.
Andrew Lytle, et ux, to C. B. Bar-
tholomew, tract in State College; $3,-
600.
Bertha Kline, et bar, to Bertha Hoy,
tract in Gregg township; $50.
H. D. Weaver, et ux, to Bertha
Kline, tract in Gregg township; $110.
Adam Ertel to Barbara Hoy, tract
in Gregg township, $35.
Clarence E. Blazer, et ux, to Theo-
dore D. Boal, tract in Harris town-
ship; $1,760.31.
Helen M. Lutz, et al, to Albert E.
Schad, tract in Spring township;
$2,800.
John P. Harris, guardian, et al, to
Albert E. Schad, tract in Bellefonte;
$1.
Margaret A. DeLong to Charles T.
Bennet, tract in Liberty township;
$800. .
Joseph Schell, et ux, et al, to J. W.
Weaver, tract in Taylor township;
$1,200.
John W. DeLaney, et al, to John D.
Homan, tract in Potter township; $2,-
000.
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