“ Bellefonte, Pa., August 1, 1924.
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Black War Bonnet Gets
Farm His Father Owned
Title to a tract of land, composed of
160 acres, homesteaded by his father,
Black War Bonnet, in 1878, has been
given to Joseph War Bonnet, a Sioux
Indian of the Ogalalla band, through
a decision of the Department of the
interior. Originally, it was unsur-
veyed land, and Black War Bonnet
settled on the 160 acres, making im-
provements costing over $200, and also
occupied the tract continuously for
three years, thus entitling him to own-
ership. In 1879 he received a certifi-
cate giving him complete possession of
the plece of land, upon which he con-
tinued to reside with his family until
dispossessed in 1882. In the same
year he dled, leaving his wife and two
children. The wife and the other
child have since died, leaving Joseph
War Bonnet the only surviving heir.
For many years Joseph War Bon-
pet has been making efforts to obtain
possession of the 160 acres of land
homesteaded by his father, but be-
cause it was withdrawn from the pub-
lic domain by an executive order and
for other reasons his petitions have
been denied by officials of the genera’
land office.
Joseph War Bonnet in 1921 made an
appeal from all these adverse decisions
to the secretary of the interior, and
final action was postponed pending
the examination of witnesses and the
securing of accurate description of the
land. Several hearings have been held
in the case during the past two years,
with the result that a final decision
was issued, giving the heir full owner-
ship and possession of the land home-
steaded by his father many years ago.
The case is referred to as one where
“long-delayed justice to a red man”
has been effected.—Department of the
Interior Bulletin.
Pin in Candle Meant
Right to Have Hearing
There was an old French peasant
custom which held the wisdom of Solo-
mon. This law was called “The Pin
in the Candle,” interpreted by the
English as “The Right to Be Heard.”
In the old days if a man and his
wife disagreed, the official to whom an
appeal was made put two pins in a
lighted tallow candle, equal spaces
apart. The husband was allowed to
talk until the fiame burned down to
his pin, and then he had to listen
while hig wife talked, until the flame
reached her pin.
This law passed into oblivion long
since, but its influence became a part
of the family life of France. It is a
tradition—particularly among the peas-
ants—when a family dispute arises and
one member prolongs a scolding or com-
plaint for the rest af the family to
gay: “It is now mother’s pin in the
candle,” or, “It is now father’s pin in
the candle!”
So simple a legend as this has
prought peace to a multitude of people.
How many of us might apply to our
daily living and hear both sides of
the story l—Delineator.
Jays Many Are Buried Alive
On the theory that electrocution
does not permanently kill all victims,
Professor Jellinek, head of the Vienna
Electro Pathological institute, has re-
cently startled the medical and elec-
trical world by announcing that, in his
opinion, many victims of electrocutions
have been buried alive. He maintains
that electric shock only drives the vic-
tim into a trance and that hope of
saving them should not be abandoned
until physical decay starts. He be-
lieves that hundreds have been buried
alive, whereas if they had been
worked over for a day or more they
would have been revived.
Human Hair Cloth
Tons of human hair are being used
now In making a strong cloth. A
Southern factory is supplying the de-
mand of cottonseed ofl mills for a
fabric that will resist for a time at
least a pressure of 4,000 to 4,500
pounds a square inch. Only that made
from hair is strong enough. When the
price of camel’s hair became prohibi-
tive experiments were begun with hu-
man hair, with the result that special
hair-weaving machines were devised
and a source of supply of human hair
was located in China.
Going America One Better
China’s newest department store ia
Hankow is to have a theater, a con-
cert hall and other entertainments
alongside the bargain counters for the
amusement of its shoppers. The Wing
On company, conductor of department
stores in Shanghai and Hongkong, has
acquired about two acres of land on
the main street of Hankow for the
erection of the several buildings.
Salesmanship
Hesitant Flapper—Aren’t these hose
a bit flashy?
Salesman—Yes, miss; indeed they
are, and the papers forecast strong
winds for the next few days.
Hesitant Flapper—TI'll take them.
Boll Weevil.
Seeing Society
“This bootlegging must be a good
business. You're probably making a
fortune.”
“Aw, it ain't de coin what counts
so much wit’ me, lady. It's de people
you meet.”—Life,
Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Says Engine Whistles
Need to Be Improved
A whistle is only a whistle, but even
a whistle is susceptible to improve-
ment, Locomotive whistles in particu- |,
lar are open to criticism, according to
Prof. Arthur L. Foley of Indiana uni-
versity, says the New York World.
Professor Foley is head of the physics
department and also of the Waterman
Institute for Scientific Research at the
university.
Professor Foley's objection to the
present type of locomotive whistle is
twofold, It criticizes both the tone and
the position. His suggestion for lm-
provements are based on discoveries
made during a series of researches
into sound intensity and cost of opera-
tion of many types of whistle. The
article continues as follows:
The popular “chime” whistle, with
Its comparatively low-pitched notes, he
maintains, is only about one-sixth as
effective a warning as would be a high
pitched single note. :
As for the position, Professor Foley
contends that it's all wrong. The or-
dinary whistle has in front of it the
smokestack, bell, steam dome and
electric generator, not to speak of o
blanket of hot gases. 5
The result is that its sound is broad-
cast to the sides of the track instead
of directly ahead where it is desired.
By altering the position and changing
the note many lives could be saved.
Another factor against the chime
type of whistle is its cost. According
to Professor Foley's calculations it
takes 2,434,026 tons of coal per year
to utter the toots of the nation’s en
gines,
The adoption of a shrill, single-tone
whistle would effect, according to his
figures, an annual saving in railroad
coal bills of approximately $5,000,000.
Tact Makes an Honest
Employee of a Thiet
A salesgirl in a department store
&as caught stealing. The superin-
tendent confronted her with the evi-
dence and asked her to sign a confes-
sion. After she had done so, he sealed
the confession in an envelope and put
his own name on it.
“This goes Into a strong box,” he
said, “and nobody but yon and I will
ever know about it—provided you do
what I ask. First, I want your promise
never to do it again and then I want
to know just why you thought you
must have more money.” She told her
story. There was sickness at home,
and her need for money was not be-
cause of mere craving for luxuries.
The superintendent sent her invalid
sister to a hospital at the store's ex-
pense.
That was nine years ago, and the
salesgiy] is today not only one of the
store’s valuable employees but one of
the most loyal. The little envelope
has been burned long ago.—Nation’s |
Business.
Fate on Strange Career
The Paris courts report one of the
;00st curious series of Incidents yet
laid before legal students in the case |
of a Paris woman who, on the occa-
sion of two previous weddings, had
lost her husband in an auto accident
while en route home from the wed-
ding ceremony. She recently married
a third time and as the burial car |
was speeding home it collided with |
a vehicle and the third husband was
killed in a manner almost identical
with the fate of the first two. The
courts took cognizance of the series
of strange mishaps, because In the
case of the second husband’s death the
woman asked damages.
This One Doesn’t Pucker
Persimmons are scheduled for a rise
(m popularity. At last a persimmon
has been found which will not pucker
the mouth no matter how green it is
when eaten. It is the Fuyun persimmon,
which the United States Department
of Agriculture has introduced from
Japan and predicts will become one of
our leading varieties. The Fuyu has
a beautiful golden orange color, is
{deal for shipping and, what is more
to the taste, is never astringent and
ean be eaten with enjcyment even
when still bard.
Eras of Time
The year 1924 corresponds to other
reckonings as follows: 1842-3 of the
Mohammedan era, the year 1343 be-
ginning August 1; 4621 (nearly) of the
Chinese era, beginning January 2; 2236
of the Grecian era; 5684-5 of the Jew-
{sh era, the year 5685 beginning Sep-
tember 28; 7483 of the Byzantine era,
which begins September 1; 2584 of the
Japanese era and 6637 of the Julian
period.
Some of Her Best Friends
Marjorie, aged six, shocked her
mother by picking up the saucer in
which she had had her strawberries
and cream and licking it vigorously
with her little pink tongue.
“Why, Marjorie!” reproved her
other. “What disgraceful manners!
Whom have you ever seen doing that?”
“Dogs,” sald Marjorie curtly.~—
Youth's Companion.
His Mite
Judge—Why did you offer resistance
to the officer who was trying to arrest
ou? :
? Prisoner—Because, your honor, 1
@idn’t have anything else to offer him.
«Chicago Tribune.
—
Lagniappe
Cup!d has less to do and more tc
cegret than most gods.
Yesterday we pcoffed at airships
Hard work has fits good Points,
aostly callonsed.~—Richmond Time
Dispatch,
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(®, 1924, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
“Mother, you don’t like Eve 1” ac-
cused Dick Leighton after his mother
had returned from an initial visit to
Dick’s fiancee. “Why don’t you like
her?”
“Dear . boy,” said Mrs. Leighton,
smoothing out each neat glove as she
removed it, “you are quite wrong. 1
do like Eve; she is sweet and whole-
some, but she is not just the sort of
wife I had hoped you would pick out.
But I suppose there never was a
mother who believed any woman good
enough to be her son's wife »
“Very likely the Allens are think-
Ing the same thing about your son,”
grinned Dick wryly. “Anyone knows
that Eve Allen is too good for me—
and that’s the truth!”
“My dear!”
«Just what is the matter with Eve,
anyway?”
“Nothing, dear—that is, she is sweet
and charming in her own way, but she
's so wild and unconventional—so
smotional—so impulsive—and she runs
round with her hair bobbed straight
1s an Indian—and rides astride and
wears knickerbockers—and 1 am afraid
it is a little shocking to an old-fash-
oned body like me, who always longed
tor a daughter, to find prayer an-
swered in that way. But don’t mind
me, dear boy—I shall get quite used
to it and think nothing of it at all, I
dare say. I do like her in other ways,
Dick.”
“I am sorry, mother, for your sake
—I sure thought I was picking a win-
ner when I fell in love with Eve; she's
such a fine companion—a good pal.”
“I know, Dick. Forget all about it.
Eve is coming te tea tomorrow and
will help me plan my garden.”
Dick was fairly content with his
mother’s report on Eve, and when she
came the following afternoon, he was
delighted to discover that they had
found a common interest in the flower
garden. Eve went about things in her
sweeping way, giving expression to
bold ideas and offering opinions that
clashed sometimes with Mrs. Leigh-
ton’s, but always giving ground if she
was in the wrong.
Mrs. Leighton learned much over
the teacups. Eve could ride
and shoot, play golf and tennis, swim
,and skate, play the piano, hike twen-
ty miles and not mind it—but Eva
| could not sew a stitch nor could she
cook so much as an egg! The wind
| was in the east when Eve got up to
go. Eve's nerves were a little brittle
from a rather trying afternoon, and
so Dick and she quarreled lament-
ably. By the time they reached the
Allens’ hospitable home, the engage-
ment was broken, and the rlag was
tucked away in Dick’s pocket. He
was furious at Eve and his mother
and, forsaking the society of all wom-
en, went off on a trip to the North
woods to forget them all.
» »
* * * * *
In the meantime, Eve was very un-
happy, and lost much of her old
sparkle and gayety. Eve was a pretty
and popular girl, and many people
blamed Mrs. Leighton for her old-
fashioned ideas that had made the
girl feel that she was unwelcome in
the Leighton family. It was a large
family connection, and Mrs. Leighton,
who was greatly distressed over the
trouble she had unwittingly caused,
filled her house with her married
nieces and their children.
One day when they returned from a
drive th2 chauffeur left the big car at
the curb while he went around to the
garage on an errand. Mrs. Leighton
and her niece, Mrs. Ned Driggs, were
gitting on the terrace, when Mrs.
Driggs suddenly screamed.
“Oh! Look at Tommy—Tommy,
don’t you dare touch that wheel!”
But Tommy, who was eight and
playing he was a taxicab driver,
gkipped neatly into the driver's seat,
went through the motions that he had
watched so many times that he me-
chanically followed them—the car
started, gained a little headway, and
started down the slight grade that was
Golden avenue.
Eve Allen, returning from a horse-
back ride, still wearing her jaunty
riding clothes, saw the whole thing
from her front piazza, two doors away.
Like a bird she skimmed down the
walk. She darted into the street and
raced after the car. }t had not reached
the steepest grade when she put her
hands on the spare tire, lifted herself
up. and crawled, a lithe, wiry little
figure, across the seats to the front.
Fortunately the top was down, and
just as the machine poised at the
brink of the steep hill, Eve's hand
was on the wheel. What she said to
the frightened Tommy no one ever
knew, but he adored her from that
moment. And when she came up the
path with the errant Tommy clinging
to her hand, she was trembling like a
leaf, and her eyes were full of tears.
“My dear, my dear,” quavered
Dick’s mother, “I am so thankful you
are just the kind of a girl you are!”
And their peace was an assured thing.
Shortly afterward Dick recéived a
letter from his mother. “Come home
at once, dear; Eve is staying with
me and I am deeply in love with
ber. We understand each other
thoroughly—she reminds me of wild
cherries, all the sweetness and the
little tang that makes them 80 a&
ceptable—and so tonic!”
When Dick came home and the dia-
mond was once more on Eve's third
finger, Mrs. Leighton told about Eve's
daring rescue of little Tommy Driggs.
“There was Lois, Dick, a wonderful
housekeeper, and able to make a per-
fect lemon meringue pie— but she:
couldn’t have done what Eve did. I'm
the happiest woman in the world
Dick I”
“Pile Drivers” Used
for Testing Matches
A pile driver is about the last instru-
ment on earth that an ordinary person
would choose for lighting a match, but
strangely enough the investigators of
the Underwriters’ laboratories use pile
drivers for that purpose. The pile
drivers, we hasten to add, are minia-
tures only a few inches high and drop
thelr tiny weights on the heads of
matches to determine the force of the
blag required to ignite them. In “A
Symbol of Safety” Mr. H. C. Brearley
thus describes how matches must be
safeguarded :
Since, as has been said, every box
of matches carries 50 potential confla-
grations within its walls, and since ap-
proximately 50,000 matches are struck
every minute in the United States
alone, it is important to see that
matches are surrounded with safe-
guards. Matches that strike only on
the box, if they are to receive the ap-
proval of the Underwriters’ laborato-
ries, must have heads made of a chem-
ical stable compound the heat ignition
point of which is above 340 degrees
Fahrenheit. Moreover, they must not
ignite easily by shock, and the explo-
sive character and the “fly hazard”
during combustion must be reduced as
much as practicable. The sticks must
be of specified dimensions, strength
and uniformity and must be treated
chemically to prevent afterglow.
Matches that strike anywhere call for
even greater precautions and must be
especially well safeguarded against
ignition by shock.—Youth’s Com-
panion.
Tell Coming Weather
by Action of Birds
The cat is not the only creature that
foretells rain.
Most birds are restless when
change in the weather is likely.
Guinea-fowls and peacocks shriek, par-
rots whistle more shrilly than usual,
and pigeons return. to their homes
when rain is expected. Gulls are dis-
turbed and utter mournful cries when
a storm is at hand.
An old rhyme tells us that fowls rok
in the sand when rain is at hand, and |
many country folk get out their wet-
weather garments when they see their |
hens gathering together and trimming
their feathers. When ducks are very
busy on the ponds, flying backward
and forward and splashing large quan-
tities of water over their backs, it may
be taken for granted that rain is near.
When a skylark soars very high the
weather is likely to remain fine, and if
swallows in the evening are seen chas-
ing insects in the heavens rather than
close to the ground the same conclu-
sion may be drawn.—London Tit-Bits.
Future of the Horse
Another scientist says that the horse
is to be extinct, and he sets the date a
century hence. The extinction process
may be at work, says the Washington
Star, but whether the horse will go to
the vanishing point in that time one
does not know.
If horses would decrease in the
same ratio as in the last ten or twenty
years, it mignt be easy tp tell when the
last horse would give up his stall to
an automobile and pass on to that
realm where good horses should go,
and perhaps where old Pegasus still
rears and canters through the clouds.
But the decrease in horse population
—or in ‘“hippolation”—may not de
crease in arithmetical progression, and
we may still find a horse on a farm
near Washington as we now find a
white turkey, a hand churn, a muley
cow, a hearth broom of sedge, or some:
thing else quaint and rare.
Wholesale Concentration
The enthusiastic young thing was
very thrilled indeed when she was in-
troduced to the famous author at a
dinner party.
She lost no time in starting a con
versation and letting him know that
she was one of the keenest admirers
of his latest book.
“You have no idea how very help
ful I have found it, Mr. Brain!” she
gushed.
“Indeed,” replied the author, high-
iy gratified. “In what way, may 1
ask?”
“Qh, it has taught me to concen:
trate.”
“To concentrate? That's very nice.
Now, tell me, what are you concen-
trating on at the present time?” asked
the author.
“Oh,” replied the sweet young
thing, with a look of rapture or. her
face, “lots and lots of things!”
Life in Persia
The coast region of Persia is humid
and the climate unpleasant, but in the
interior the climate is agreeable. Cer-
tain parts of the interior are very
pleasant, as a matter of fact, and liv-
ing offers no trying problem whatso-
ever. The Persian himself is polite
and will treat you rather well. There
are many Americans in the oil fields,
I understand. I algo believe that the
oll flelds are situated in the most
unpleasant part of Persia, where the
climate is unhealthful and fever preva-
Jont.—COupt. Beverley Giddings in Ad.
venture Magazine. Lie
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Clearance Sale
OF
Summer Goods
For the next 15 days we will have
on sale all Summer Dresses and Dress
‘Materials that must go---Regardless
of Cost.
The Season’s Greatest. Value
in these Lovely Materials
Crepes, Voiles, Swisses, Tissue Ginghams
—in plain colors and in figures, 36 inches.
Hosiery
Remarkable values in Womens Full-Fashioned Silk
Stockings; all the new shades. During the sale our
$1.50 Hose will be sold for 95c., and our $2.00 for $1.50
Coats and Suits
We have slashed the prices in our Ready-to-Wear
Department—Regardless of Cost.
Shoes
Big reductions in Mens, Ladies and Childrens Shoes.
White Oxfords and Pumps were $2.50 and $3.00, now
$1.75. Mens Fine Shoes from $2.50 up. Childrens
Shoes from $1.00 a pair to $2.50. We also have a
Rummage Table with Shoes from 25c. to $1.00 per
pair. Don’t miss this sale of Shoes, as you will save money by
coming early.
A visit to our store will convince you that
we have reductions you cannot duplicate.
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
mast
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Prices Reduced
at, Yeagers
We have made a Very Liberal Reduc-
tion on the price of Ladies Pumps and
Sandals.
This season’s goods—not old styles.
$8 cad serans NOW $455
Yeager's Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA,