Bruna.
Bellefonte, Pa., June 13, 1924.
Bread Baked 4,400 Y ears
Perils in the Home
Told by Risk Company
Mark Twain once called attention to
the peril which surrounds a bed since
go many people die there. According
to an insurance company, home is not
an entirely safe place either. This
concern learns from an examination
of its records that out of every 58
accidental deaths nine take place In
the home.
Thus nearly one-sixth of the fatal
accidents occur in an environmert in
which one might reasonably expect to
be protected from danger of injury.
Age, however, has a bearing on the
situation. Children are in greater
peril than when they develop into
youth, and the danger increases as one
passes from middle age. Burns, falls
gnd inhaling poisonous gases are the
chief causes of fatal accidents in the
home.
We are accustomed to consider the
peril which attends traffic in the street
and employment in many lines of in-
dustry. The fact that it is impressed
on us may make us more cautious.
Thus many accidents may be avoided
which would otherwise happen were
we regardless of the danger. Because
we feel safe when within the walls we
call home, may in some measure be
responsible for the accidents which
occur there. Our surroundings being
so familiar the sense of lurking dan-
ger in an open fire, or a loose board
on a step, does not suggest itself.
After the damage is done we may per-
ceive wherein we erred, but it is too
late to remedy the harm done. We
are never entirely free from peril
whether at home or abroad, but we
are likely to have a keener apprecia-
tion of it when away from home and
the opposite may be one’s undoing af
home.—Pittsburgh Telegraph.
World’s Smallest Book
in Library of Congress
Some of the interesting curiosities
at the Library of Congress in Wash-
ington are: the smallest book in the
world, the longest printed work in
the world and the largest book In
America. The smallest book is a copy
of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The longest work is the Tu Shu Chi-
nese encyclopedia, while the largest
book in America is James Audubon’s
“Birds of America.”
The midget Rubaiyat is only three
sighths of an inch wide and one-eighth
of an inch thick. Letters in the book,
even on the title page, are so small
that they can be read only with the
aid of a powerful magnifying glass.
Its 48 pages of Japan paper are
daintily stitched and bound in green
paper. The printing of the mam-
moth Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia
has been called the “greatest typo-
graphical feat in the world.” Three
vears were required to print its 5.280
volumes with their 800,000 pages. The
table of contents alone is forty vol-
umes. A copy of this voluminous work
printed at Shanghai was given to the
United States by the emperor of China
in 1908. Audubon’s “Birds of Amer-
ica,” the giant American book, is forty
inches long, twenty-six and one-half
inches wide and two and one-fourth
inches thick. So large are its pages
that on one of them a turkey is j.ro-
duced in life-size. The set comprises
four volumes. They are bound in
red horsehide and were presented to
the library by Audubon himself in
1827.—Detroit News.
How Missouri Became
the “Show Me” Siate
There nzve been many explanations
as to the origin of the expression, “I'm
from Missouri, you've got to show
me.” One often advanced is that the
marriage laws of Missouri in the early
days were so loose that anyone could
get married without answering many
questions.
In 1881 a law was passed making
ft a misdemeanor for a minister or a
justice to marry persons not having
a state license. It also set the age of
marriageable women at eighteen. If
the applicant for the license did not
know the age of his bride-elect he
was obliged to show her to the license
clerk and let him judge her age.
When the applicant went after the
girl she maturally asked why she had
to go along to get the license.
to show me, have you?’
It was thus, according to some au-
thorities, that Missouri became known
as the “show me” state.—Detroit
News. wn
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4 First Phonograph
History mentions talking machines
as early as the Thirteenth century. In
1762 Rev. John Wesley states in his
diary, he saw at Lurgan, Ireland, a
clock with an automaton of an old
every time the clock
struck, opened the door with one
hand, drew back the curtain with the
other, turned his head and then said
man, which,
in a loud, articulate voice: “Past 1
2, 8,” and so on. The inventor, a man
named Miller, told Wesley that he had
made many successful experiments
and could make a man who could talk
and sing hymns, but he wag too busy
In 1783 Abbe Mical
presented to the French Academy of
Sciences an invention that talked, but
he later broke it up, having religious
scruples. In 1877 Edison brought out
his first talking machine, which, by
the way, was first displayed in Paris,
on other work.
When
told that the law required her exhibi-
tion, she remarked: “Oh, you've got
at that time.
at Ambaston, Derbyshire.
John.
to another world.
bakers’ name. What is easily the old
—London Answers.
Star’s Admirer Given
Shock by Her Manage:
round of some of the provincial towns,
and everywhere the audience waxed
enthusiastic over the juvenile lady.
One evening a youthful admirer
man, and endeavored to obtain an in-
troduction to the
acting very much.
“It must be very pleasant to know
aer,” he suggested. “No doubt you
who see her so often are very fond
of her?”
“Yes,” admitted the manager, “I sup
pose I am rather fond of her.”
“perhaps you've known her for
gome time?” ventured the other.
“Yes, quite a long time,” answered
the manager.
“But it can’t be so very long,” pro
‘tested the admirer; “why, she’s little
more than a girl.”
Then suddenly a horrible suspicion
came to him, and he stammered:
“You—you're not her husband, are
you?”
“No, oh, no,” said the manager, with
an amused smile; “only her son.”
Can’t Classify Bacteria
Scientists are still trying to deter
plants.
described as animalcules.
still insists on calling them “bugs.”
Haeckel once proposed placing them
tion, “protista.”
tion and absence of a definite nucleus;
the protozoa.
gen than ammonia.
Courtesy
Courtesy is the one medium of ex
change that is always accepted at par
by the people of every country on the
globe.
good feeling and suggests that we are
not working entirely for the material
returns of work, but for the pleasure
of friendly human association as well.
too busy to be courteous. Courtesy
is the outward expression of an in-
ward consideration for others, and is
always an effective lubricant that
smooths business and social relation-
ships, eliminating friction.— Trolley
Items.
Out of Proportion
cles’ dimensions,
or even 50 times as large, and its mus-
way against the force of gravity.
Trouser “Galluses”
uGalluses” is an old word fast dis
appearing from use. It is now seldom
, | backward districts. The word
“guspenders.” “Gallowses”
hy many writers of repute.
Ago Found on the Nile
A loaf of brown “famine” bread sold
during the Peninsular war has been
presented to Coventry City Guild mu-
seum, together with a small and faded
notebook in which the owner wrote
that he intended to keep the bread as
a memento of the high price of corp
But this loaf is new when compared
with others that have been discovered
at different times. Few people, for in-
stance, would care to put their teeth
into the loaf which is still preserved
It is 700
years old, and was given to the Sear
family with a grant of land by King
Several years ago, a French explorer
found an Assyrian loaf, which, it was
estimated, had been baked in the year
560 B. C. and was, therefore, about
2,500 years old. In shape it resembled
a bun. It was discovered, wrapped in
a cloth, in an ancient tomb where it
had probably been put by the super-
stitious Assyrians to be used as food
by the dead person during his journev
| Many years ago an oven was found
at Pompeii, containing several loaves,
slightly charred, but all bearing tne|
‘est loaf in existence, however, is the
jone discovered by an Egyptian ex-
plorer on the banks of the Nile in 1905.
It was baked in the year 2500 B. C.,
and is, therefore, over 4,400 years old.
A touring company was going the
sought the manager, a tall, fine-looking
fascinating little
lady. He had, he said, admired her
mine whether bacteria are animals or
When these ubiquitous organ-
isms were first discovered they were
The layman
along with lower plants and animals
difficult to classify in a new classifica-
The new tendency is
to assign these micro-organisms to the
plant world. They resemble some of
the algae in form, mode of reproduc-
yet those which possess flagella show
points of resemblance with some of
Bacteria closely resem-
ble plants from the chemical stand-
point in possessing marked chemo-syn-
thetic power in nitrogen metabolism,
leading to the production of such com-
plex compounds as amino-acids and
purins from no other source of nitro-
Courtesy radiates a spirit of
Life is not too short and we are never
A spider enlarged to the size of a cat
would be helpless, even if the relative
proportions of all its parts were re-
tained. Its legs would bend and break
under the weight of its body because
the muscular strength would have in-
creased only as the square of the mus-
while the body’s
weight would have increased as the
cube of its parts. The fly with its rel-
atively powerful legs easily walks up-
ward over a vertical wall, Make it 100,
cles could not begin to hold it in this
heard except among old people or in
is a
corruption of “gallowses,” which is
still used in parts of Scotland for
is only
another form of “gallows,” a frame-
work for hanging criminals. It seems
that our forefathers put criminals and
trousers in the same category, the gal-
lows being the common fate of both.
Although “galluses” 1s now consid-
ered dialectic, it was formerly used
FRANCE’S AMAZING RECOVERY.
Though everybody is aware that
France has been busy and prosperous,
most Americans will be astonished by
the scope of the recovery indicated in
French government statistics for the
year 1923. Tabulations of these fig-
ures have been published by the Bank-
ers’ trust Company and the French
Bureau of Information. France
emerged from the war with more than
1,400,000 of her able bodied men kill-
ed. Departments which contained 30
per cent. of her industries, including
half her coal mines, two-thirds her
steel plants and four-fifths her textile
works, had been devastated. One-
third of her merchant marine was
gone, and one-seventh of her railway
rolling stock. Nearly five million
acres of her farming land had to be
recovered from barbed wire, trenches
and unexploded shells. To restore
the nation’s economic life seemed a
task for a whole generation; yet the
statistics show that it is already
largely completed.
Naturally it is the mineral indus-
tries which, by comparison of 1913
with 1923, make the most surprising
showing. By the annexation of Al-
sace-Lorraine and the control of the
Saar, France gained the richest iron
ore beds and some of the best coal
seams of Europe. From Lorraine
Germany had derived 75 per cent.
(21,000,000 long tons) of all the iron
she mined just before the war. From
the Saar alone she obtained nearly
one-tenth her coal supply, or over
17,000,000 long tons. It was only a
question of time until France would
forge ahead of her pre-war mark.
But the striking fact is that she is al-
ready doing so. In 1923 she produced
23,226,000 metric tons of iron ore,
against 21,918,000 tons in 1913, and
4,977,000 tons of steel, against 4,635,-
000 in 1913. Her coal production had
fallen to 21,000,000 tons in 1919; she
brought it up to 38,000,000 and this
year should surpass the 40,000,000
mined in 1913.
In agriculture the recovery has
been slower but steady. About half
the Frenchmen killed in the war came
from the farms, while much of the ag-
ricultural population was displaced by
invasion. Live stock can not be ob-
tained in a hurry, and 3,000,000 head
of cattle had been lost. But the area
under cultivation has expanded every
year. In 1913 ther? were 6,542,000
hectares in wheat; in 1919 this had
dropped to 4,603,000, yet last year it
had risen again to 5,526,000. As for
oats, her second largest crop, the cor-
responding figures were 3,979,000
acres, 2,855,000 and 3,457,000. There
is an actual increase in vine culture
over 1913, while not far from four
times as much beet sugar was produc-
ed last year as in 1919. The French
fare is within sight of his old posi-
ion.
In foreign trade there are half a
dozen outstanding French industries
which have now equalled or exceeded
their pre-war activity. The exports
of woolen goods and silks are de-
cidedly higher. Those of automobiles,
measured in either bulk or money val-
ue, are far above the 1913 level. Half
again as great a weight of chemical
products is now exported as before
the war. The adverse trade balance,
which reached dizzy altitudes in 1919
and 1920, has been brought down till
it was only a little over two billion
francs last year, as against one and a
half billions in 1913.
France’s economic position is now
better than that of any other conti-
nental participant in the war, and in
some respects more enviable even
than great Britain’s. The figures
here cited take no account of the rap-
id development of France’s adjoining
colonial empire in North Africa, with
its enormous resources. Nothing is
said of the progress in electrifying
French railways, and the plans for
new canals and water power projects.
|The rebuilt industrial plants in north-
ern France will be far more efficient
than ever before. This recovery is an
unforgettable exhibition of the cour-
age, energy and ability of the French
people. They have risen superior to
some of the more terrible blows war
ever inflicted on any nation; it only
remains for them now to do their
share in a generous settlement of Eu-
rope’s international difficulties.
To Open Children’s Camp.
A children’s health camp designed to
accommodate 200 children was opened
at the Mont Alto State sanitarium on
June 1st. Children from all sections
of the State who are under-nourished
or whose parents have tuberculosis
are to be taken to the camp, restored
to health and then returned to their
homes.
_The children’s camp occupies the
site of the former veterans’ tubercu-
losis hospital which is located about
a mile from the camp proper, in that
manner, the youngsters are kept from
those patients in the State sanitarium
who are suffering from tuberculosis.
The children admitted to the hos-
pital fall into five distinct groups con-
sisting of the so-called latent tuber-
culosis cases; children who come from
families where one of their parents is
suffering from tuberculosis; under-
nourished or pre-tuberculosis chii-
dren; children having glandular tu-
berzulosis and children having pul-
monary tuberculosis in a quiescent
stage.
——More Negroes migrated North
from Florida during 1923 than from
any other southern State.
MEDICAL.
Bad Back Today?
Then Find the Cause and Correct it as
Other Bellefonte Folks Have.
There's little rest or peace for the
backache sufferer.
Days are tired and weary—
Night brings no respite.
Urinary troubles, headaches, dizzi-
ness and nervousness, all tend to pre-
vent rest or sleep.
Why continue to be so miserable ?
Why not use a stimulant diuretic to
the kidneys?
Use Doan’s Pills.
Your neighbors recommend Doan’s.
Read this Oak Hall case.
Mrs. Ralph Hassinger, of Oak Hall,
Pa., says: “My back was weak and
lame and I tired easily. My kidneys
acted frequently. I used Doan’s Pills
and they soon strengthened my back
and regulated my kidneys.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Pills—the same that Mrs.
Hassinger had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
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THURSDAYS
June 26, July 10, flug. 7-21, Sept. 4
Tickets good returning within 16 days.
Valid in parlor or sleeping cars
on payment of usual charges for
space occupied, including sur-
charge. Tickets good via Delaware
River Bridge Route 36 cents extra
round trip.
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on return trip.
See Flyers. Consult Ticket Agents
Proportionate fares from other
points.
OceanGrove Excursion August 21
Pennsylvania RR System
The Route of the Broadway Limited
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Congress
Has Adjourned!
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nd there is a more confident
feeling in business.
We look for better times
soon, not only for the farmer
but in all industries.
The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
Who Can Tell ?
ake the average man—what does he know about
the inside details of clothes? Can he really tell
the difference between artful tailoring and indiff-
erent making? The chances are that he can’t.
All he can do is take the word of the store.
Lots of men in this locality take our word when it
comes to clothes because we have gained a reputation
for keeping the faith.
For one thing, we have Griffon Clothes
here. Famous clothes. Clothes known for their un-
failing quality. When men choose clothes here, they
pick the style and color that they want knowing that
the rest will be all right.
A. Fauble
Care 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.
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