Demonic tan
Su———
= Bellefonte, Pa. May 30, 1924.
Magic Healing as It
Is Practiced in Indic
It is hard in India to draw the line
between folklore and religion. It is at
best very misty. The malefic powers
seem to be stronger than the benig-
nant, as is the case with most of the
earlier faiths. A small instance or tw”
must suffice.
We were sitting in the uplands, on
gome rocks covered with the glorious
plants of the wild peony. These are
lovely even when the flowers aré gone
and only the carved leaves remain and
the massive seed vessels, full of seeds
of pure rose embedded in milky white.
They waved about us as I listened—
and heard this tale and many more.
A memsahib had to discharge a serv-
ant, and he thought he owed his dis-
charge to the butler. Soon after the
butler complained of sores on his feet,
small, raw holes, which would not get
better, do what he would. At last he
could not walk. The European doctor
came, but could not help with all his
medicines, dearly as they are prized
by the natives. It was clear then to
the butler that this was a case for the
jadughar — the wonder-worker. He
came and put ointment on the feet. No
result. It was then evident that his
was a true case of jadu—magic. All
the household assembled and jadu of
the strongest was made and enlighten-
ment besought. It came. The jadu-
ghar said he must dig in the garden.
Objection was made by the powers of
the house, hut they yielded eventually,
and, unhesitating, the man chose a
spot and dug. And lo! a lump of sun-
saked clay roughly shaped in the image
of a man, and into the feet were thrust
large thorns inscribed with strange
characters. The butler said the jadu
was for him and that now his feet
would immediately heal. They did.
I have heard of many cases like this.
If this was faith-healing, I think one
must also admit it was faith-harming.
—L. Adams Beck in Asia Magazine.
Carrier Pigeon Acts
as Blackmailer’s Aid
The legend of the carrier pigeon is
one of gallantry, of romance, of suc-
cor to beauty in distress, of informa-
tion between lovers, of comfort to be-
leaguered cities, of dauntless heart
and cleaving wing through high ad-
venture and deadly peril.
When one thinks of the praises and
honors that have been won by that
excellent bird ever since ancient man
learned to turn its priceless accom-
plishment to his own service, one shud-
ders at the thought of what our ‘“‘prac-
tical” criminal classes would do to the
homer’s reputation if they found it
possible to use the bird for nefarious
purposes.
Fortunately there are obstacles to
the use of homing pigeons as black-
mail collectors, as a young man in
Queens discovered to his cost. The
pird that he, by way of a “practical
joke,” had caused to be delivered to
a prosperous citizen of his acquain-
tance, with an anonymous demand for
$1,000, was trailed by detectives to its
purchaser and the blighted joker was
arrested. If he had seen himself in
imagination as the suddenly affluent
pioneer of a new and winged get-rich-
quick system, his dream was cruelly
shattered. The bird with which he is
charged with playing Fagin is held
as a material witness against him,
but without a stain on its own char-
acter.—New York Sun and Globe.
Music Due to Monk
This year marks the nine hundredth
anniversary of the invention by the
monk Guido of Arezzo of readable
music, or at any rate of his revolution-
ary modification of the forms existing
up to his time to the one now in gen-
eral use.
Methods of writing music existed be:
fore he applied his mind to the sub-
ject, but it appears that to Guido we
owe the stave and notation substan-
tially as now familiar in written mu-
sic. Once upon a time musical themes
were transmitted from teacher to
pupil and from generation to genera-
tion only by singing or playing them.
When a tune passed out of fashion it
was lost.
The teaching of music must have
been difficult by contrast to what It
became after Guido, who wrote it so
that even without an expert instructor
one could read it. Many minds must
have addressed themselves to the
problem of making it easily intel-
ligible, but. Guido’s achievement is im-
perishable—Detroit News.
Just a Musician
A beautiful girl had just finished
singing “My Little Home in Devon-
shire.” The hostess was surprised to
see a man in a distant corner of the
drawing room visibly affected. Tears
stood in his eyes, and he shook his
head. “Poor Mr. Smith!” she said,
sympathetically. “I'm afraid that
song recalled sad memories to you.
Are you a Devonshire man?’ “No,
Tm just a musician.”
At a Party
A man keeping open house and
showing unmistakable signs of it was
introduced to a new arrival, a Mr. Lit-
tiejohn. *
“Glad to meet you, Mr. Demijohn."
“Not Demijohn,” protested the oth-
er. “Littlejohn—little—little—little.”
«Tittle? No, no. We'll have a
whole lot.”—Louisville Courler-Jour-
nal.
means of sandstone blocks.
Famous Egyptian Statue
Was Originally Monolith
The statue of Memnon is situated
pear Thebes in Egypt.
in height, and commonly known as the
“Vocal Memnon.” It stands on the
left bank of the Nile, and with its
companion was erected in honor nf
Amenoph III of the Eighteenth dy-
pasty, in front of his mow vanished
temple. It was originally a monolith,
but, having been overthrown either by
Cambyses or by the earthquake of 27
B. C., the upper part was restored by
Accord-
fag to ancient tradition, this statue
when first touched by the rays of the
rising sun, emitted a musical tone, like
the snapping of a harp-string, which
the imaginative Greeks concluded was
the voice of Memnon greeting his
mother Eas (the dawn). Strabo, who
visited this statue about 18 B. C., was
the first to mention it.
“These sounds . . . were said
to be produced either by a priest hid-
den in the Colossus or by the expan-
sion of fissured portions under the in-
fluence of the sun’s rays. Though
many celebrated persons of antiquity
—such as Strabo, Aelius, Callus and
Hadrian—testified as "to hearing this
peculiar music, its particular charac-
ter and cause have never been satis
*actorily explained.”—Vincent’s *“Ac-
tual Africa.”
She Distrusted Real
Motive of Boy’s Visit
In the family that had moved next
door to the Smiths was a boy about
seven years old. The Smiths had a
little girl, Virginia, just the same age.
Everyone expected the two children to
become playmates at once, but almost
a week passed before they noticed
each other. Then the boy came over
to play with Virginia. Virginia, how-
ever, immediately went into the house.
“Why, what's the matter, Virginia?”
her mother asked. “I thought you had
been wanting to play with the new
boy.”
“Well, I did at first,” Virginia ad-
mitted, “but I don’t care so much about
it now, at least, not today.”
“Why don’t you want to play with
him?’ mother asked.
“Oh, mamma!” Virginia exclaimed.
“He's had a whole week to come over
here and hasn't done it. Now I've got
a nickel to spend for candy and I
don’t care whether he comes or not !”—
Exchange.
China Wood Oil From Nuts
Tung or China wood oil is an im-
portant raw material in the manufac-
ture of varnishes, wall paints and
enamels, and is largely used by the
linoleum and printing ink industries.
It is nearly colorless, quick drying,
elastic, and very tough. The oil is
pressed from a nut that grows on
tung trees of two species which are
hardy, deciduous, and about 20 feet
high.
In China it is used chiefly to pre
serve the thousands of boats that ply
the waterways of that country.
For transport, the oil is put in bas
kets lined with 16 thicknesses of var-
nished paper, each holding about 130
pounds of oil. These baskets are
brought to a small city or market place
in the interior, where they are pur-
chased by representatives of export-
ers.—Detroit News.
Dry-Clean White Dogs
One of the serious objections many
persons have to owning a white-haired
dog is the trouble of keeping him
clean, but the truth is that a white
dog is just as easy to keep clean as a
dog of any other color, but not by con-
stant washing. The whole secret of
keeping a white dog clean is to groom
him thoroughly every day. Continu-
ous washings ruin the texture of the
dog’s hair. To make a white dog look
really smart, give him a dry shampoo.
Rub him all over with a lump of or-
dinary whiting or chalk. When he is
caked with the powder and looks
as if he had been dipped in a bag of
flour, brush him vigorously so that all
the loose powder will be shaken out
and you will find that he will look
cleaner than he would if you had
given him a wet bath,
Plains of Abraham
Che heights near Quebec overlook-
ing the St. Lawrence river took their
name from Abraham Martin, a Cana-
dian pioneer of Scotch descent who
was a pilot on the St. Lawrence in
the time of Samuel Champlain, foun-
der of the city. By a deed author-
ized by Champlain himself Abraham
Martin, who was affectionately known
as “Maitre Abraham,” obtained a
homestead on the heights of Quebec.
His herds of sheep and cattle grazed
on the tableland along the St. Law-
rence which became known among the
inhabitants of the town as the Plains
of Abraham. In 1908 part of the
Heights of Abraham were converted
into a Canadian national park.
Some Arizona Flowers
Arizona deserts have their own flow
ers. In places the supply is abundant,
the growth large, the flowers when in
bloom of marked beauty, the big yue-
ca and the sotol, both members of
the lily family, showing beautiful
bloom on tall and stately stalks.
One of the Interesting desert
growths is the water cactus, so named
because of its great stalk, from 5 to 10
feet high and as large in circumfer-
ence as u barrel. It has a heavy pulpy
covering from which it is possible to
squeeze goodly amounts of water, In-
dians and travelers are quick to turn
to the cactus when water supplies are
short.—Columbus Dispatch,
It is sixty feet’
Real Meaning of Words
Used Almost Every Day
When a person is in an unhappy pre-
dicament—*"between the devil and the
deep sea”—he Is sometimes said to be
“hetween Scylla and Charybdis.” Ac-
cording to a Greek legend, these were
two monsters, one of which lurked on
each side of a narrow sea passage. In
steering bis vessel in such a way as
to escape one the unlucky mariner fel
into the clutches of the other.
There are two words—panic and
hygienic—which we use almost every
day. “Panic” is a sudden, unreason-
‘ ing fear of something. It is derived
from the name of the god of shepherds
—Pan—whose presence as he lurked in-
visible amongst the thickets or reeds,
made itself felt by mortals, and sud-
denly smote them with a fear so acute
that they fled from the unseen.
“Hygienic” is derived from the name
of the goddess of health—Hygeia.
How many people realize when they
speak of putting an animal into a
lethal chamber that the name comes
from Lethe—a river on the borders
of Hades—whose waters brought for-
getfulness to whoever drank of them?
And when they describe something as
being in a state of “chaos” do they
ever think that they are naming the
first of all the old heathen gods—
Chaos—who ruled over confusion be
fore any other gods existed?
“Under his aegis” is another phrase
often used. “Aegis” was the name of
the shield of the goddess of wisdom,
Minerva, and is used to indicate what
+he shield afforded—protection.
Nicknames Represent
Character of Cities
Unfortunate is the city which in its
career has not been dubbed by some
nickname or other. Some of the nick-
names of cities express admiration,
some are frankly deprecatory, others
are facetious, and all represent in some
measure the character of the city.
New York city is blessed with many
nicknames, for whatever may be its
virtues or its vices, no one will deny
that it has character and distinction.
Perhaps it is best known as the “Em-
pire City,” a sobriquet clearly éarned
by its premier position in the United
States, its wealth, its population, its
enterprise and its influence in the em-
pire of the Western world.
“Gotham,” a name first applied hu-
morously by Washington Irving, comes
next. It is an allusion to that older
Gotham, the extraordinary stupidity
of whose citizens won them the ironic
appellation, of “The Wise Men of
Gotham.”
Much-abused Brooklyn is preten-
tiously called “The City of Churches,”
but is also known as “New York's
Bedroom.”
Stephen Girard
Stephen Girard (1750-1831) was an
American merchant and philanthro-
pist, born at Bordeaux, France. He
was greatly interested in the first
United States bank, which he made
one of the soundest financial institu-
tions in America. During the War
of 1812 he was the chief financial sup-
port of the government. On the re-
chartering of the second United States
pank, 1816, he became one of its prin-
cipal stockholders and directors, and
exercised a dominant control over its
policy for many years. He left al-
most his entire fortune of $7,500,000
in public benefactions, chief of which
was Girard college, in the regulations
for the control and management of
which he incorporated his ideas as to
freedom of thought and religious
belief.
To Cement Agate Ware
The old cement made by mixing
fitharge with glycerin is as good as
any for mending holes in kettles, pans,
water pipes, etc. The litharge and
glycerin should be kept separate until
needed, and only as much as Is re-
quired at the time should be mixed,
as the mixture soon hardens. This
kind of hard putty is also useful for
puttying the glass in aquariums, mend-
ing auto radiators, fixing burners to
kerosene lamps and doing similar re-
pairs where a hard and resistant ce-
ment is required. Litharge is a red-
dish powder which can be bought at
any drug store; it is an oxide of lead—
“red lead.”
Miracles on Every Side
When the Greek religion began to
pass away Greece was a land of mir-
acles. Everything that happened was
regarded as a miracle.
There were winking pictures, sweat-
ing statues, statues that wept and shed
tears, paintings that could blush, stat-
ues that would brandish spears and
swords, images that talked, images
that bled real blood from wounds and
numberless statues and shrines which
healed wounds and made the blind
see and the deaf hear.
The tools with which the mythical
Trojan horse was made were on ex-
hibition as was the spear of Achilles.
Twins Never Parted
A curious record of coincidence is
reported from Devonshire (Eng.) con-
cerning twin brothers, born in 1851,
near Barnstaple, in that county. When
they were twelve years old the twins
were apprenticed to a miller. They
are still millers and are still working
side by side.
The brothers married on the same
day and lived In adjoining houses.
Bach had ten children; one, three
boys and seven girls; the other three
girls and seven boys. For fifty-seven
years both twins have attended the
same Sunday school and neither has
ever missed a Sunday.
A Curious Spring.
One of the most curious springs in
the world exists in New Mexico. It is
literally a spring saturated with so-
dium sulphate. Distilled water weighs
eight and one-third pounds per gallon;
the water of this spring weighs 10 and
two-thirds pounds. The temperature
ture of the spring weighs ten and
two-thirds pounds. The temperature
of the spring is a little more than 110
degrees Fahrenheit. As the saturat-
ed liquid overflows and cools it forms
a crystalline mass like ice, which, in
the course of ages, has spread into a
snow-white bed of solid sodium salts,
miles in extent and as level as a lake.
The warm brine, it is said, is inhabit-
ed by a minute, shrimp-like organism,
and a species of plant is found grow-
ing in the dry expanse of sodium sul-
phate.—Washington Star.
MEDICAL.
Have You a Bad Back?
Then the Advice of This Bellefonte
Resident Will Interest You.
Does your back ache night and day;
Hinder work; destroy your rest?
Are you tortured with stabbing
pains
When you stoop, lift or bend?
Then likely your kidneys are weak.
More troubles may soon appear.
Headaches, dizziness, nervousness;
Or uric acid and its ills.
Help your weakened kidneys with a
stimulant diuretic.
Use Doan’s Pills.
Read this Bellefonte testimony:
Samuel Weaver, S. Water St., says:
“I almost got down with backache
and mornings I felt so lame and stiff
1 could hardly bend over to put on my
shoes. During the day I suffered ter-
ribly and my kidneys acted irregular-
ly. Doan’s Pills from Runkle’s drug
store benefitted me in every way.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Pills—the same that Mr. Wea-
ver had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs.,
Buffalo, N. Y. 69-22
Barred Plymouth Rocks
railamianaw $12.00 per 100
Rhode IslandfReds
Baby Chicks
Prompt Shipment. Live Delivery Guaranteed
Hecla Poultry Farm
69-15-tf Bellefonte, Penna.
16-Day Excursion
Tuesday June 10
$12.60
Round Trip from
BELLEFONTE
Proportionate Fares from Other Points
For details as to leaving time of
trains, fares in parlor or sleeping
cars, stop-over privileges, or other
information, consult Ticket Agents,
or David Todd, Division Passenger
Agent, Williamsport, Pa. gg.22.9¢
Similar Excursions June 27 and October 17
Pennsylvania RR System
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66-24-tf Bellefonte, Pa.
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(are of the Feet
Foot Trouble is Unnecessary, unless
caused by some Physical Ailment.
he trouble with the average person is
that they do not give foot trouble
the proper attention. Illfitting shoes
usually cause foot trouble—and fitting feet
isia profession. Thirty-seven years at the
game of fitting feet eliminates all guess
work as to our proficiency in that respect.
Mr. Wilbur Baney, our clerk, has had twen-
ty-five years experience. We do not guess.
We know how to give you the proper size,
and the kind of shoes that your feet need.
The Next Time you are in Need
of Shoes, and your
Feet are in Trouble—try Yeagers
Yeager's Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.