Bellefonte, Pa., August 8, 1924,
Play of Oedipus Rex
Is Tremendous Tragedy
The play begins, The crowd .en-
ters, the people driven by pestilence
toward their king and toward the
gods, writes Stark Young in the North
American Review. The prophet comes;
‘a curse is on the land. Oedipus sets
out upon the search that is to be his
fate. The woman who is his mother
and also his wife throws herself be-
tween Oedipus and this knowledge that
will destroy them all. And, finally, in
shame and frenzy Jocasta hangs .her-
self, and Oedipus with the clasp of
her mantle digs out his eyes. He en-
ters then in that most terrible shudder
in all drama; he feels the pain, his
voice floats far from him, shame in
this world and in the next he feels,
everything; even his children are
taken from him, and he goes out to
wander alone over the world. And
meanwhile the chorus has sung and
moved, and carried into a wider re-
gion the events of the play and the
thoughts of the characters. The music
of the Instruments has widened yet
further the whole, giving it a yet more
general and essential abstraction and
seeming to spread upon it an aspect
of the eternal. The changing lines of
the chorus and the actors have ren-
dered less obscure the poet’s desire,
and all his thought; the Salamis or
inland wind, blowing another rhythm
into those bright garments, has car-
ried into universal space that flow of
movement under the wide light.
What Proof Marks on
Old Firearms Mean
Those unfamiliar with ancient fire
arms are frequently puzzled by find-
ing certain characters or letters, or
both, stamped on and into the barrel
of a gun or pistol. In their ignorance
they take them to be the initials or
mark of the maker, and from these
seek to gain light as to his name,
It is true that Spanish and German
arms usually have, instead of the
maker's name, a seal, frequently of
gold, depicting characters—animals
and letters—from which, if possessed
of a list of such seals, one might de-
termine the manufacture of the wea-
pon, and hence its approximate date.
English and French gunmakers, how-
ever, if marking the arm at all, did
so by placing their name and that of
their town on the lock-plate or barrel,
or on both,
The marks known as “proof marks”
~ere stamped on, usually by a govern-
ment official, after he had tried out
and “proven” the arm to be all right.
As a rule the method of “proving” was
to load the piece with several times
its normal amount of power and shot,
and then discharge the same, If it sur-
vived the test it was considered
“proven” satisfactorily. Thus, as dif-
ferent marks were not adopted until
a certain date, we may ordinarily be
assured that an arm bearing them was
not manufactured before that date.—
Lewis Appleton Barker in Adventure
Magazine.
Uyth of Ptolemy’s Mirror
2tolemy’s mirror was a huge mirror,
said to have been placed in the tower
of the Pharaohs of Alexandria by Pto-
lemy Euergetes.
Aboolfeda, the famous Arabian wri
cer, says that this mirror was made of
Chinese iron, and that shortly after
the Saracen conquest of Egypt it was
destroyed by the Christians to prevent
its falling into the hands of their op-
pressors. In Buffon's opinion, says the
Detroit News, Ptolemy's mirror was
made of polished steel.
According to a fabulous account, It
reflected the greater part of lower
Egypt and a portion of the Mediter-
ranean sea and enabled the observer
to detect either the approach of a hos-
tile fleet or the existence of a disturb-
ance on land.
The Lunatic
A man called at our office the other
day and sald:
“] wanta ask about my income tax,
if you know.”
“Ah!” we sighed, sympathetically.
“TI wanta know,” he said, “about
chis. Last year I had t' borrow money
t' pay th’ tax on my income; this year
I had t' borrow money t’ pay that back
and pay this year’s taxes, and next
year I got to sell my house t’ pay ‘em
all and my taxes. Now, how much
does the government owe me for what
I ain't got?”
‘We murmured appreciatively ana
motioned for the bouncer. These
troubled ones really bother us a lot!
- =—Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Teo ches His Child Wife
“In Stamyord, Ky., there is a curious
“gltuation of »n School teacher having
among his pupils, a!! children, his own
wife, a girl just sixteen. He was dis-
dovered recently because he endeav-
ored to make his wife-pupil write on
the blackboard: *I have never kissed
any other man but my husband.” The
teacher is Melvin Wright and he gained
notoriety also for whipping his wife
when she broke a school rule,
Exactly
Counsel—Now where did he kiss
you?
Plaintiff—On the lips, sir.
LJounsel—No! No! you don’t under-
stand. I mean, where were you?
Plaintiff (blushing)—In his arms,
gir—Georgla Tech. Yellow Jacket.
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——When you see it in the “Watch-
man” you know it’s true.
(©, 1924, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
At precisely four o'clock Hilda
Tate walked into the office of her
aunt, Frances Tate, successful busi-
ness woman,
“Hello, Uncle Frank,” she sald, ad-
dressing the older woman sitting at
the large desk in the spacious office.
Having no real uncles, Hilda had hit
upon the plan of calling this aunt,
who followed a man’s profession,
“Uncle Frank” during business hours.
At other times she was simply “Aunt
Fanny.”
“I'm here,” she said, as she dropped
into an armchair.
“But Fred isn’t,” said Uncle Frank,
signing letters automatically. *“So
we are to have tea without him, I
suppose. Or will he meet us later—"
“He won't meet us at all,” said
Hilda. “Not ever.”
Uncle Frank put off further expla-
nation until she and her attractive
niece had reached the seclusion of
their favorite tearoom, and there
Hilda began again. She was now ad-
dressing Aunt Fanny. Aunt Fanny
was much more sympathetic thar
Uncle Frank.
“You see,” said Hilda, savagely bit-
ing a plece of buttered toast, “we
went shopping. I'd no idea what sort
of taste Fred had. And let me tell
you if ever you think of getting mar
ried—because quite old people some
times do nowadays—just you go shop-
ping for furniture and things before
you think of getting the license.
That's the real way to find out if
you are compatible, And just to
think—the' wedding was to be im a
month. We were going to see about
the Invitations tomorrow.”
“You don’t mean that you've brok
en the engagement?” said Aunt Fan-
ny, calmly.
“Certainly I do.” Hilda was em-
phatic. “We went to get carpets and
things. You know and Fred knows
thst I intended to do my own work.
All the girls are doing it now when
they are first married, and I don't sup-
pose Fred could afford a maid, any-
way. So, of course, I planned to have
ollcloth on the dining-room floor—you
know, one of those ollcloth rugs. And
I wanted a plate-glass top for the
dining-room table, so that we could
put the doilies on under and then
they'd never have to be washed. Pd
just have to wipe the top off after
each meal. Well, Fred had quite
definitely made up his mind on hav.
ing a Chinese rug in the dining room,
and when I said something about the
glass top for the table, he first
laughed and then sald the idea was
absurd. If I found it was too much
work to keep the rug brushed and
everything, why, we'd have a maid
he said. Just imagine!”
Aunt Fanny drank tea in silenc.
for awhile.
“You don’t mean that you are go
mg to give Fred up just because you
don’t want a Chinese rug in the din
ing room?’ she asked at length.
“It isn’t that,” said Hilda earnestly.
“The thing is that I have found we
are dissimilar in taste. If we dis
agree about those things we should
probably go on disagreeing all our
lives, and then imagine how miserable
we should be. I would be very much
better off never to marry anyone at
all.”
“But the trouble is you would prob
ably marry someone else. You might
find someone who was perfectly wil-
ling to have the ollcloth covering for
the dining-room floor who wasn’t quite
$0 attractive in some ways as Fred.”
“Oh, I shan’t ever marry anyone,”
said Hilda with decision.
The discussion would have gone on
longer had it not been that just then
a well-built young man came ambling
up to the table at which Hilda and
Fanny wer:s seated. He approdched
so that the older woman saw him
while her niece did not.
“May I sit here?” he asked, address-
ng Aunt Fanny, and as she nodded
her permission he took the vacant
chair, then signalled the waiter and
gave his order for tea.
In the meantime Hilda nodded with-
out smiling.
“You see, Hilda and I had a little
argument,” he exphained, still address-
ing himself entirely to the aunt, “and
she refused to let me come with her
to have tea with you. But I had told
you I would—so here I am.”
“You are a man of your word,” ap
proved Aunt Fanny. “I should have
been disappointed if you had not
come.”
There was an awkward pause
which neither Hilda mor Fred tried
to break. Then Aunt Fanny began.
She said she had a little story she
wanted to tell, It was about an aunt
of hers—Hilda's great aunt,
“She was engaged to a young an
tist,” she said. “And just before
they were going to be married they
went out to buy furniture. It was
in the days when people still used
horsehair covering for sofas and
chairs. This aunt of mine was a
practical housewife, She wanted
horsehair because she thought it
would shed the dust. That's why
people used it, you know. But this
artist fiance of hers couldnt endure
it. He wanted furniture eoversd
with rich brocades and tapestries. So
they disagreed and they never did
marry. Later he became quite cele-
brated, but Aunt Clara never saw him
again, She married an old widewer
for lack of anyone else, and I don’t
believe she ever smiled again in her
life without having tears in her eyes
at the same time.
“And then some thirty years later,”
Aunt Fanny went on, “I was engaged
to a young doctor. I had made up my
mind on having our house furnished
in old mahogany. But Walter wanted
mission. Mission was new and very
popular at the time. It was two
weeks before the wedding was to
have taken place. We argued until
we quarreled. And then we broke off
our engagement.
Hilda had gradually been growing
more and more absorbed in listening
to her aunt.
“Isn't that the oddest thing?” she
said at last, and then cast a little
sidelong glance at Fred. “Why, it
seems to run in the family,” she con-
cluded. “But I really don't care so
much about the glass top or the eoil-
cloth in the dining room.”
“Of course you don't,” assured Aunt
Fanny, and Fred stretched a hand
down beside the table to grasp Aunt
Fanny’s hand in a warm squeeze of
appreciation.
Clay for Making China
Not American Product
The potter at his wheel has been
the symbol of labor since forgotten
times In China, in Egypt, in Assyria
and other ancient elvilizations.
Columbus related of his first visit to
fispana or the West Indies that when
pieces of plate, dishes and glass were
traded with the natives “it seemed to
them like getting the most beautiful
jewels in the world,” says the Detroit
News.
Despite the splendid artistry of the
Romans they did not know how to
make high-fired pottery with a vitreous
glaze, the distinction of modern china.
While high-grade bone chinaware lis
made In the United States which
equals in beauty, texture and artisiie
decoration the china of famous Eng-
lish potteries, it could not be made but
for imperts of raw materials.
The right sort of clay, the basis ot
the pottery Industry, ts not found in
the United States in quantity. Eng-
lish china clay is the most essential
import for this industry. It has, how-
ver little plasticity or strength and
can be melted only with dificulty. To
remedy this deficleney it is necessary
to add English ball clay and also do-
mestic flint and feldspar.
Remarkable Fish
fn a series of articles which Pro
fessor Mitchell-Hedges is writing for
the Wide World Magazine he describes
one of the biggest creatures he ever
took from the depths. “It was a re-
markable fish,” he says, “of the leop-
ard or whipray species, the back be-
ing cevered with white spots. This
really awe-inspiring brute measured
T14 feet across the wings and 634 feet
from head to base of tall, the tall,
itself, from base to tip, being 9% feet
long, so that the total length from
tip of head to tip of tail was 1814 feet.
Its weight was 410 pounds. This
broke all my previous records of
weight captured on rod and line, my
former largest being the shark ‘of
237% pounds. It was a most ex-
traordinary plece of luck that I had
changed my ‘35° thread line for the
“54 for it would have been utterly im-
possible to have landed this great fish
on the finer line.”
Champion Fish Stery
Thay were telling fishing stories,
and the silent member in the corner
spoke at last,
“Once,” he sald, “I went after a
fish so big that no ordinary line was
any use. At last I tried three-inch
rope and hooked him. He was too
strong for me to land, so I tied the
rope around an old oak tree in a
fleld while I went for help. Win 1
got back the fish had gone.”
“Pulled up the tree, I suppose?”
put in another man, sarcastically.
“More than that,” went on the other.
~The roots of that oak were so wide
and deep that it took the whole field
as well. 's a quarry now.”
Odd Relationship
A German village is still hopelessly
puzzled over the relationships result-
ing from the double marriage of a
father and son. The father, a
widower of sixty-eight, married the
village belle. She thus became the
stepmother to her husband's forty-
year-old son. The son, in his turn,
met the girl's mether and married
her. Consequently his father is now
his son-in-law and he himself is his
pwn grandfather.
In the meantime, the village belle
sas presented her sixty-eight-year-old
husband with a baby daughter. Clear-
ly, this child is sister-in-law to her
grandmother!
America in Denmark
flor one day each year 200 acres ot
Danish soil becomes American terri-
tory. That day is the Fourth of July,
and the land in question is the Ameri-
can National park. In 1912, a comm
tee of Danish-Americans presented
the park to the Danish government on
condition that on the American na-
tional holiday the park should be
American soll and should fly the
‘American flag. The park is located at
'‘Rebild, in the province of Jutland,
‘overlooking the water where was
fought the greatest naval engagement
of the World war.
Silvering Mirrors.
The Scientific American gives the
following formula for silvering glass:
(a) Reducing solution—In twelve
ounces of water dissolve twelve grains
of Rochelle salts and boil. Add, while
boiling, sixteen grains of nitrate of
silver, dissolved in one ounce of water
and continue the boiling for ten min-
utes more; then add water to make
twelve ounces. (b) Silvering solution
—Dissolve one ounce of nitrate of
silver in ten ounces of water; then add
liquid ammonia until the brown pre- |.
cipitate is nearly, but not quite, all
dissolved; then add one ounce of al-
cohol and sufficient water to make
twelve ounces. To silver—Take equal
pares of a and b, mix thoroughly and
ay the glass, face down, on the top
of the mixture while wet, after it has
been carefully cleaned with soda and
well rinsed with clean water. Distilled
water should be used for making the
solutions. About two drams of each
will silver a plate two inches square.
The dish in which the silvering is done
should be only a little larger than the
glass. The solution should stand and
settle for two or three days before be-
ing used. It will keep good a long
ime,
Oiling of Roads in State Finished.
Harrisburg.—With the exception of
a few isolated sections of earth roads
where light dust-laying oils are put
down, the State Highway Department
has completed the surface treatment
of macadam roads throughout the
State, it was announced. This fulfills
the department’s promise to have the
work completed before July 1.
It was the idea of Paul D. Wright,
highway secretary and William H.
Connell, engineering executive to
keep the roads open to Pennsylvania
users, and that the department should
cause no delays or inconveniences, in-
sofar as it was possible.
For this reason the oiling schedule
was rushed during the early spring
and summer inasmuch as the bulk of
tourist traffic is on the roads in July,
August and September. In the ma-
jor portion of the State oiling opera-
tions were finished on June 20, despite
the unseasonable and continued rains.
11,000,000 gallons of material—a
quantity sufficient to fill 1,375 aver-
age size railroad tank cars, or 27%
trains of fifty cars each were used.
These trains placed end to end would
extend a distance of nine miles and
fifty-five feet.
——Read the “Watchman.”
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“The Government Should Control Public Money”
Says a paragraph in the platform of the radical third party.
There is no such thing as public money.
Every dollar the government has was taken from the people in
the way of taxes, or by borrowing, and it spends the revenue thus re-
ceived as fast as it gets it.
Governments cannot make money. Time and again, all through
history, nations have tried the experiment. Germany recently tried
it, Russia tried it and their so called money proved worthless.
By public money is doubtless meant the deposits of the Federal
Reserve Banks. But every dollar of this money belongs to the people.
The government does not own, nor can it take one dollar of their re-
sources.
They belong to the banks that are members of the Federal Re-
serve System and the banks owe it to the millions of depositors. You
are probably one of these depositors.
Get it clearly in mind that the immense resources of this great
country are owned by individuals, that what we call government is
designed for the protection of society, and not to do business either
by making so called money or running railroads or any other form of
enterprise. :
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