Bellefonte, Pa., September 19, 1924.
Sacred Stones Pressed
by Millions of Lips
During the holiday season many
tourists in Ireland visit Blarney cas
tle and its famous kissing stone.
Of the stones variously asserted to
be the original one, able to bestow
the gift of persuasive eloquence upon
whoever touches it with his lips, the
one the kissing of which is a difficult
feat, on account of its position, has
received numerous kisses from dar-
ing visitors, as well as the one which
s easy of access.
The Blarney stone is net unique in
having received an immense number
of chaste salutes. St. Peter's statue,
in the nave of St. Peter's church, in
Rome, can claim a like honor. In
fact, the toe of this bronze figure’s
foot has been worn away by kisses
Perhaps, however, the Mohamme
dans possess the most-kissed object
in the world, namely, the celebrated
Black stone at Mecca.
No true Moslem, after having made
a pilgrimage to the Prophet's birth-
place, would think of leaving it with-
out first kissing this sacred stone.
Said te have been white originally;
the Black stone is stated by those to
whom it is an object of veneration to
have been turned to its present color
either through the sins of men or by
the tremendous number of kisses
bestowed upon it.
Early Jewish Cemetery
Now Business District
On New Bowery, near Oliver street,
New York city, is a little Jewish cem-
etery, said to be the oldest Jewish bur-
ial ground in North America, says the
Detroit News. It once occupied what
is now Chatham square. The grant for
the graveyard was issued by Gov. Pe-
ter Stuyvesant in 1656. The first Jews
in America are supposed to have ar-
rived September 12, 1654, on the bark
Catarina, which brought 27 refugees
from Cape St. Anthony, Brazil.
The spot selected for the cemetery
was out among the sandhills, outside
of the city. There was a range of hills,
at the foot of which was the present
site of Chatham square, and on the
crest of one of these hills, facing east,
the cemetery was started. The location
was ideal, overlooking the meadows
below the city to the south, with the
Bast river in the distance. When the
‘War of the Revolution came batteries
were planted in the body of the ceme-
tery and on its hills. In 1856, 200
years after the opening of the final
sleeping place among the hills, New
Bowery was cut through, and all that
was left of the cemetery was a 57-foot
front on that thoroughfare.
Iona, the “Blessed Isle”
Jona, one of the smaller of the In-
nér Hebrides, was the “Blessed Isle”
of early Christian days in the British
islands, says the Detroit News. St.
Columbia, noted Irish missionary, made
it the center of Celtic Christianity.
From there missionaries went out to
convert Scotland and northern Eng-
land to Christianity. Kings were
brought to be buried in the soil of the
sacred island. The importance of Iona
was ended, however, by the Danes who
swept down about the beginning of
the Ninth century and seized the Heb:
rides from the Scotch.
The islands were returned to Scot-
land’s overlord in 1226. More than
500 islands make up the Hebrides
group, but only about 100 are inhab-
ited.
All Life a Struggle
Life is a battle all through, physical-
ly as well as morally. Everything Is
struggling to endure, and the more
successfully we struggle the stronger
we become against a weakening
enemy. The plant that is badly nour-
ished, that slacks and flags in the
fight is the one all its enemies fasten
upon. The weakly animal is the one
that sickness most easily attacks. The
battle of life 1s generally to the strong.
The early wheat in the best prepared,
finest land makes the better stand, In
most cases, agalnst blights and other
afflictions. Often the finest character,
also, belongs to the best fighter, per
haps to the one who has had most to
fight against.—Montreal Family Her
ald.
—
Animal Intelligence
According to William T. Hornaday,
director of the New York Zoological
park, the chimpanzee is the most ip:
telligent of all animals below man.
He can learn more by training and
more easily than any other animal. A
high-class horse i8 a very wise and
capable animal, but this is chiefly due
to its age-long association with man
and education by him. A high-class
dog is the animal that mentally is in
the closest touch with the mind, the
feelings, and the impulses of man, and
the only one that can read a man's
feelings from his eyes and his facia!
expression.
Lyric Soprano
The word lyric is derived from thy
lyre, which is now used as an instru
ment to accompany the smaller forms
of poetry. It has become associated
with songs that are composed more
for their melodious interest than for
thelr dramatic effect. A lyric soprane
is known as a light soprano, which fs
more suited to. light songs and solos
to - distinguish it from dramatic so
pranos, which are heard to greater ad
vantage in opera and oratorio work.
Big Lips for Beauty
Is Idea of Africans
The women of the Lake Tchad re-
glon of Central Africa vie with one
another as to who can possess the
longest lips.
When girls are about four or five
years old their future husbands pierce
a hole in the center of the upper and
lower lips with a big thorn or a knife.
Trough these holes he places thick
straws or reeds.
In a few weeks, when the girl has
become used to the punctures, wooden
pegs the size of a lead pencil are
pushed into the holes, says London
Tit-Bits. Three months later, when
the lips have become accustomed to
the distension, larger pegs are insert-
ed. At twenty-five a fashionable ma-
tron of the Saras-Djinges tribe is like-
ly to have disks seven inches wide in
the lower lip and five inches wide in
the upper. Up to this time the disks
stick straight out like birds’ bills, but
now they drop down from their
weight.
After this larger disks are inserted
about once a year. It is a matter of
social pride with a woman to go on
increasing her lips as long as pos-
‘sible.
Raise Fine Specimens
of Butterfly in France
Butterfly culture in the south of
France is rapidly growing in popular-
ity. Here, under expert scientific
guidance, hundreds of beautiful speci-
mens are bred. The farms are provid-
ed with special leafy trees and plants
on which the eggs are hatehed. Di-
rectly the young appear the branches
are taken to a well-ventilated room,
where they are placed in jars of water.
As soon as the caterpillars have eaten
up this first supply of leaves fresh
branches are provided. Having been
in an even temperature for about two
weeks, the young caterpillars are taken
out into the open, where they are
placed on plants protected from birds
by nets. When fully grown this pro-
tective net is removed and soon they
retire into cocoons or roll themselves
up into leaves. These are collected and
stored in boxes, where in a very short
time butterflies of wonderful hues are
evolved. Cross-breeding has been tried
and numerous experiments are con-
ducted to obtain brilliant and original
markings on the wings of these insects,
which are afterward sold to collectors
or for the adornment of women’s hats
and dresses.
Fable of the Four Men
“I got off a street car this morning,”
said a doctor, “and being in no hurry
I began moralizing on the actions and
probable character of three men who
had alighted just ahead of me. The
first one was even then halfway down
the block and was going on with such
rapid strides that he had already put
a couple of hundred yards between
himself and the next man. ‘There,’
thought I, ‘goes a hustler—a man
who’s bound to succeed in life.’ The
second man was walking rather slow-
ly and impressed me as one who wonld
do fairly well, perhaps, in this world.
But the last fellow was just dawdling
along in the most shiftless sort of
way. I very quickly set him down as
a loafer.
“Just then another idea came home
(0 me. All three were ahead of me!”
—Pathfinder Magazine.
Turf Natural Filter
France's experiments with natural
turf have shown that it is an excel-
lent material from which to form beds
for the filtering of sewage. A volume
of between three and four cubic
meters of sewage can be purified
every day for every square meter of
the surface of the turf. An experi-
mental turf filter that has been in use
for more than seven months shows
diminution of efficiency. If a larger
proportion of sewage than that men-
tioned is employed the filter proves
less effective, but it recovers its pow-
er when the amount of sewage is re-
duced to the proper proportion. Chem-
ical analysis and the effects upon ish
put into the filtered water unite in tes-
tifying to the efficiency of the process.
French Butter Markets
During the months of June, July
and August the butter markets of Nor-
mandy are an interesting sight to the
visitors. The peasants assemble in
the market squares of the various
towns, almost in military formation,
with their baskets filled with large
pats of butter, each done up in the
whitest of cloths. The buyers walk
along the lines and bargain for the
wares, tasting samples before deciding.
If the prospective buyer is satisfied
with the flavor of one morsel he
knows he may rely on the rest of fit
being equally good, for the French
law regarding the adulteration of food
is very strict, and a fraudulent seller
is severely dealt with.
Poor Henry!
A Baltimore man, who was former
Iy a resident of a town on the eastern
shore, recently revisited his old home
town after an absence of many years.
One day he was talking with an old
friend about various people he for-
merly knew, :
“What became of the Hall family?
he inquired.
“0h,” sald the latter, “Tom Hall dia
sery well. Got to be an actor out on
the Pacific coast. Bill, the other broth-
er, is something of an artist in Kew
York, and Luey, the sister, is doing
literary’ ‘work. But Henry never
amounted to much. It took all he gould
lay his hands on to support the uth-
ers.”—Philadelphla Ledger.
Cherokee Myth Tells
of Bravery of Spider
Lucky was it for all the animals
that there are spiders that have egg
sacs resembling bowls, for otherwise
all the creatures of the forest would
have had to go without fire, the Youth's
Companion remarks. At least so we,
are assured in a Cherokee myth. Nat-
ural History thus tells the pretty story
in which a spider played the part o*
Prometheus:
In the beginning there was no fire,
and the world was cold. In time, how-
ever, the thunders placed fire in a
hollow tree on ap island. The animals
gazed enviously at the smoke that
curled upward from the concealed bon-
fire, knowing that there was warmth
there, yet at a loss how to obtain it.
So they held a council, and as a re-
sult the raven set out on the quest.
He reached the island and the tree,
but all that he bore back with him as
a result of his adventure was scorched
and blackened feathers. The little
screech owl next made the trial. He
reached the tree, but while he was
hesitating what to do next a blast of
fiery air arose and nearly burned out
his eyes, which are red to this day.
Other owls tried in their turn, but with
no better success. Then the black
snake tried, and today he bears a cov-
ering of sooty scales as a badge of
his ineffectual hardihood.
. Daunted by the failure of their fel-
lows, the remaining animals managed
to tind the weightiest of reasons for
not venturing to go. Not so the spi-
der, however. She wove a little tusti-
bowl of her silk end, fastening it to
her back, set forth on her adventure.
Reaching the island, she crept through
the grass to the tree and snatched up
a little ember of fire, which she placed
in her bawl and returned with it to
the expectant animals.
Years Have Brought
Changes in Meaning
If we wish to label anything strange
or barbarous we say it is “outland-
ish,” but when the Bible speaks of an
“outlandish woman” it means a for-
eigner.
Another curious expression in the
authorized version is “The other bas-
ket had very naughty figs.” That
means fruit which was good for
naught. Today the word “naughty”
means “ill-behaved.” In the prayer
book the word “presently” means “at
the present time,” but today is always
means a future time, though not far
distant, says London Tit-Bits.
When the authorized version of the
Scriptures was first printed, the word
“careful” meant “full of care and anxi-
ety,” as in “careworn,” but if a man.
were said to be careful it would today
be a good testimonial. Thus, when the
New Testament tells us to “be care-
ful for nothing,” it is not enjoining
wastefulness and speaking against
thrift, but simply telling us not to
worry about anything.
Beginning of Y. M. C. A.
The Young Men’s Christian associa
tion was founded in England by Sir
George Williams, a London merchant.
, Williams’ organization grew out of
‘meetings he held for prayer and Bible
reading among his fellow workers in a
dry-goods business in London, and the
association was founded in 1844. On
the occasion of its jubilee, its origina-
tor was knighted. Similar associations
had been in existence in Scotland at a
much earlier date. In 1824 David
Naismith started the Glasgow Young
Men’s Society for Religious Improve-
ment, a movement which spread to
various parts of the United Kingdom,
France and America. Later the name
was changed to the Glasgow Young
Men's Christian association.
His City of Refuge
The train came to a grinding stop a
a small town in the South, and the
head of a gentleman of color protrud-
ed from a window at the end of a car.
Seated by his side could be seen a
brown-skinned maiden.
“Does yo’ know a cullud pusson by
de name o’ Jim Brown what lives
here?” he asked of a station lounger.
“Ain’ nevah heerd o’ no Jim Brown
hyah, an’ Ah lived in dis town fo’ ten
yeahs.”
“Is yo’ right suah dey ain't neveh
peen no Jim Brown aroun’ hyah?”
“Positively.”
“Den,” announced the arrival, reach-
fog for a suitcase, “dis is whah his
new son-in-law gits off.”—The Conti-
nent.
Lost Talent
A great deal of talent is lost in the
world for the want of a little courage.
Hvery day sends to their graves a num-
ber of obscure men who have only re-
mained in obscurity because their
timidity has prevented them from mak-
ing a first effort; and who, if they
could have been induced to begin,
would In all probability have gone
great lengths in the career of fame.
The fact is that, to do anything in this
world worth doing, we must not stand
back shrinking and thinking of the
cold and danger, but jump in and
scramble through as well as we can.—
Rev. Sydney Smith.
Will-o’-the-Wisp
“Will-o’-the-Wisp” is a popular name
Yor a phenomenon called ignis fatuus,
which in Latin means “foolish fire.”
it 1s a light which appears floating in
the atmosphere a few feet above the
ground in marshes or other places
where there is decaying animal matter.
When approached it appears, as a rule,
to recede. It has been attributed to
phosphorated or carbureted hydrogen
escaping from decaying substances.
Saved by Roosevelt's
Idea of Square Deal
When Roosevelt was getting ready
for his African trip various sportsmen
friends, as a matter of course, volup-
teered suggestions.
“When you get to Nairobi,” said one
—=& Mr. Blank, a happy-go-lucky, care-
less, prosperous chap, who had dived
Into the jungle and out again two
years before—*“whatever you do, don't
hire a guide by the name of W—.
He is capable enough, but not trust-
worthy.”
The day Roosevelt reached Nairobi
he inquired about this particular
guide. He sent for the repudiated
guide and got his side of the story,
says the Milwaukee Journal.
Just as Roosevelt had divined, it
was a mountain made out of a mole
hill. The damning word dropped by
Mr. Blank without warrant had left
stark misery in its wake for the guide.
After that he could get no employ-
ment from any hunter who came te
Wairobi,
Roosevelt heard all this. By way of
rejoinder he smashed his itinerary.
He rearranged it over night to include
a ten days’ expedition never before
dreamed of in that section of the coun-|
try. He hired the Nairobi guide to
take entire charge of the trip.
When the expedition got back in
scheduled time Nairobi’'s housetops
heard from Roosevelt. He said:
“That guide is the most intelligent,
the most industrious, the most relia-
ble and the most satisfactory guide I
have ever had.” :
The rehabilitation of the wounded
guide dated from this utterance and
this act of Roosevelt's. Again the
man began to be sought after by
hunters.
Outlaw Queen Could Be
All Feminine at Times
Belle Starr, outlaw queen of the old
days in Texas and Oklahoma, wore her
hair short and was particularly sweet
to women, says the Detroit News. She
lived for years on the proceeds of loot
and lined up a gang of the meanest-
looking, hardest cursing, wildest riding
and shooting hard-boiled customers in
her particular parts of the cow coun-
try.
She used to call at women’s houses
on her way home from leading her
band on a robbery, and she would talk
feminine things with them, sing re-
ligious songs and tell stories to the
childreu.
Several stories are told of the way
Belle Starr met her death. The gen-
erally accepted one is that she was
assusvinated by a man named Edgar
A. Wsatson, who had gone to Okla-
homs in the ’80s and started farming
near her place. It is told they became
enemies in a dispute over land rental.
Anyway, February 3, 1889, so the ver-
sion has it, a double-barreled shotgun
did the work.
Long Pedigrees
Royalty, as in the Hatfield chart, |
which traces Queen Elizabeth's de-
scent from Adam, is not alone in
claiming long pedigrees. On the tomb
of a former town clerk of Burton-on-
Trent that worthy is described as
thirty-seventh in descent from Alfred
the Great. Again, a distinguished
French family, the Magons (an Ad-
miral Magon was killed at Trafalgar)
shows a pedigree deriving from Mago,
the brother of Hannibal.
~ An Italian nobleman, the Marchese
Porro, traces his line back to Porus,
the Indian monarch who fought
against Alexander the Great, while
the Samson family who own estates
near Lyons claim that their descent
is from the strong man of the Bible,
and in support of the claim bear on
their coat-of-arms the broken column
of a temple.—Manchester Guardian.
Real “Robinson Crusoe”
Alexander Selkirk was an adven
turer, born in Largo, Scotland, in
1676. He was a skillful seaman and
made several voyages to the South
gea, in one of which, having quarreled
with his commander, he was put
ashore on the island of Juan Fernan-
dez with a few supplies. Here he lived
alone for four years and four months,
when he was rescued by Capt. Woods
Rogers. He returned to England in
1711, and is said to have given his pa-
pers to Defoe, who, from them, wrote
the story of “Robinson Crusoe.” Sel-
kird died on the ship Weymouth in
1723. -
Famous the World Over
Epsom, England, is in the county of
Surrey, 15 miles southwest of London.
Epsom was formerly celebrated for a
mineral spring, from the water of
which the well-known Epsom salts
were manufactured. A number of the
sons of medical men are educated at
the Royal Medical college, and adjoin-
ing the school is a home for aged
physicians or their widows. The prin-
cipal attraction is the grand race meet-
ing held on the downs, which is at-
tended by hundreds of thousands of
persons.
Characters of History
Razi or Rhazes was an Arabian
physician who lived from 852 to 982.
He Is noteworthy as being the first
man to describe smallpox and messles
in an accurate manner. Hugbald or
Hucbald wag a Benedictine monk and
writer of music. He was born at Tour-
nai, France, about 840. He later
started a school of music and other
arts at Nevers, He was the Inventor
of the gamut. The only work posi-
tively ascribed to him is the Harmoni- | if
ca institute. He died in 930.
—
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The new Fall and Winter Coats are
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Special Sale of Silk
500 vards Silk in Taffetas, Satines
Plaids and Stripes—36 inches wide—at
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Don’t Forget--our Clearance Sale
of Summer Goods is still on---Coats,
and Dress Fabrics.
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at Yeagers
We have made a Very Liberal Reduc-
tion on the price of Ladies Pumps and
Sandals.
.
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