Bellefonte, Pa., October 10, 1924.
Menace of Vesuvius
Today as Yesterday
A queer life they must have lived
In those little houses of Pompeii,
whose rough masonry and stained
patches of color were first created
when Germany was a savage forest,
Britain a moist land distant from civ-
ilization “the whole globe away,” and
America had never felt the tread of a
. shod foot. In the sunny courtyard
the master dreams away the hot hours
to the splash of the tiny fountain,
listening to the sleepy gabble of his
slaves from the rooms round the
atrium. The rattle of the two-horsed
chariots over the lava blocks of the
street, the oaths of a driver who fails
to negotiate the huge stones placed
like massive policemen to regulate the
traffic at the entrances to the cross-
roads, disturb his slumber, and he re-
members the gladiators, “heroes of
ten fights,” when the aedile Pansa is
to exhibit in the arena on the Nones
of April. A dull roar, and a vertical
column of pearl-white smoke, bellying
out into fantastic shapes and floating
majestically away on the light wind,
shows him that Vesuvius is angry. He
glances for reassurance to the picture
of the Lares and the snake of fortune,
painted on the wall of the entrance
porch to avert ill-luck. No need to
worry; it has always been like tha#
end always will be.
It is like that today. The monster
snorts fire and smoke innocuously
into the blue sky. Visitors on sturdy
ponies go fearlessly up to gaze into
his black, evil-looking jaws. But will
it always be like that? Or, when the
last bucketful of cinders has been
painfully sifted, and the last house
cleared, will he again mock human la-
bors and human hopes and cover all
once more with dust raining from
a lurid sky ?—Washington Post.
Seek Treasure Under Sea
The harbor of ancient Carthage is
to be thoroughly explored in search of
treasure which is now definitely
known to exist there, its presence hav-
ing been revealed by observers in air-
planes. For years the sponge divers
in that vicinity have repeated stories
about seeing an anclent galley repos-
ing on the bottom, but the matter was
never given any very serious atten-
tion. But from a height the bottom
of the sea may be scanned very thor-
oughly and some aerial observations
revealed the presence of a boat of an-
cient construction very clearly, and
some preliminary examinations have
shown that it is at least partially
filled with
Greek art.
plans will be commenced at once and
the cargo systematically recovered.
The old harbor will be further
searched for treasure ships which are
known to have gone down during the
Punic wars. In this work the airplane
will play an important part.
valuable specimens of
God, Love and Money
Explorations on modern '
I was greatly struck, approaching
Pittsburgh on the train, passing
through a black, cindered region where
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life must lack many of its most harm- !
less pleasures, to notice the astound- !
"ing number of churches. These, surely,
are not there without some sound so-
cial reason. There are three prime
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eonsolations known to man in the dif- |
ficulty of his life: God, love and money.
Of any two of these you may deprive
him without hearing much grumble, !
But if he lacks all three, there is sure
to be trouble.—Christopher Morley in
the Century Magazine.
The News
“Well, no,” said Tobe Sagg of Sandy
Mush, in reply to the inquiry of the
able editor of the Tumlinville Torch of
Liberty and Tocsin of the Times. “I
doa’t reckon there's no pertickler news
out my way—come to think, though:
Some fellers dug up a nest of rattle-
snakes tuther day, killed fourteen and
hung 'em on the fence beside the road.
About six or eight moonshiners and
bootleggers came along in course of
the day, gave a yell apiece, tumbled
over the bank on tuther side of the
road and into the creek. Looks sorter
like rain off to the south’ard, don’t it?”
—Kansas City Star.
Pat’s Smart Bank
Pat had opened his first bank ae
count and had taken to paying most
of his debts by check. One day the
bank sent him a statement, together
with a packet of canceled checks. Of
the statement Pat made neither head
nor tail, but the returned checks
greatly pleased him.
“Mike,” he said to a friend, “sure
an’ it's a smart bank I'm doin’ busi-
ness wid now.”
“How's that?”
“Why, Oi paid all me bills wia
¢hecks, an’ be jabbers if the bank
wasn't slick enough to get ivery check
back for me again.”—From .Life.
Carving Aged Timber
Alois Lang of Manitowoc, Wis., wht
ranks among the foremost of Amer-
ica’s wood carvers, is working on a
block of oak taken from the timbers
of York cathedral in England, which
was built 900 years ugo. He is mak-
ing beautiful panels to be placed in
the sanctuary and chancel of St.
Paul's cathedral in Los Angeles. Rec-
ords in England show that the oak
timbers were given by William the
Conqueror to Bishop Walkelin during
whose episcopate the edifice wag
erected. :
Pirate Put Treasure
- Beyond Human Reach
Surcharged with wild romance is the |
tale of Duval’s hoard on the Rock of
Perce, which lies off the coast of
Gaspe Peninsula, province of Quebec.
So many people have lost their lives
In trying to climb up and recover the
treasure Jsupposed to be hidden there
that the legislature of the province
has passed an act forbidding anyone
to try to scale the height without per
mission. 3 -
The rock is one of the natural won-
ders of the North American conti-
nent. Thousands of years ago some
terrific convulsion of nature must have
torn it from the near-by mountain and
left it standing 500 feet high with a
flat top and unscalable sides. - At one
time two caverns pierced the base on
the seaward side, but one of them has
collapsed and left only the larger,
through which the sea thunders ir
stormy weather.
When Captain Duval, the French
pirate, was hard pressed by the British,
he collected all his treasure and sailed
for the rock. A Micmac Indian with
whom he was friendly wormed his way
upward through an opening in the
greater of the caverns and, reaching
the top, threw down a light line with
which he hauled up a block and fall.
He pulled up two British prisoners,
then the captain himself. Boats cor
taining the treasure stood by below.
Tradition says that the men were a
day and a night in getting it all up.
Then the Indian and Duval came down.
The captain's sword was bloody. With
muskets he and hi® men shot at the
tackle until they had cut it through at
a point so high on the rock that no one
could reach it. Captain Duval never
returned ; nor did any of his men.
For two generations the rains rotted
the stout hemp ropes on the side of the
cliff until at last they disappeared.
Though there are fishermen in Perce
whose grandfathers saw the ropes, no
one knows what happened to the twe
prisoners and the chests of treasure
Which Proved It Right
L. D. Edie is a professor of eco-
nomics at the State university, and in-
cidentally is the author of the text
book used in his classes. He has a
way of “catching up” his students
after they have made recitations. A
few days ago, one of his students was
as clever as he was. The usual pro
cedure is that the professor asks a
question, and after the student has an-
swered it, the instructor says, “Now,
are you sure about that?” and adds,
“Isn’t it thus and so,” or “don’t you
really mean somethnig entirely differ
ent from that?”
The student usually believes that
he is wrong and “hems and haws,”
trying to correct his first statement
which usually is correct.
But this time a young man recited
and when Mr. Edie asked, “Are you
sure about that?" the student said, “]
don’t know whether it is right or not,
but that is what you said in your
book ?”—Indianapolis News.
The News
*“Well—p'tu l——no,” said Gap John
son of Rumpus Ridge in reply to the
inquiry of the able editor of the Tum-
linville Torch of Liberty and Tocsin
of the Times. “I don’t believe there's
nuth'n’ special in the way of news
been going on out my way. Come to
think, though, at the dance at my
house tuther night the floor broke
down and killed a dog that had
crawled under the house.”
“Ah! Your dog?’ asked the scribe.
“Nope; belonged to Newt Strodder,
aver beyond Slippery Slap. Newt
cussed and cut up so much about it—
provided he has plenty of the third. | claimed he had only nine dogs left—
that before the evening was over I
had to shoot him in the leg to give
him something else to think about.
No, I don’t know no pertickler news.”
—Kansas City Star,
Rush-Bearing Festival
In a little-frequented village in the
heart of North Wales, the ancient cus-
tom of rush bearing is observed an-
nually on a Sunday in mid-July. Vil-
lage girls pass into the churchyard
through the old lych gate before morn-
ing service, bearing in their arms large
bundles of green rushes and sheaves
of all the sweetest-smelling flowers—
mignonette and gilly-flowers, lavender
and “Old Man,” pansies and lilies,
pinks and roses, which they place rev-
erently upon the various graves. At
the feasting which takes place after
the service on every guest's place is
laid a sprig of rue, which he or she
must wear forthwith or be guilty of
great discourtesy. “Rue—that’s for
remembrance.”
Makes Music in the Sky
One of the queerest orchestras in
the world plays music up in the sky.
The players are members of a flock
of pigeons carrying various kinds of
light air whistles attached to their
tails by fine wires. Flocks of the
birds flying through the air provide
a unique and melodious aerial concert,
says Popular Science Monthly. The
originators of this unusual idea are
the Chinese. The musical instruments
used are of two different types—bam-
boo tubes and gourds with tubes at-
tached. They are made to whistle by
the rapid passage of the bird through
the alr,
Chilean Women Up-to-Date
In Chile, all the universities are
open to women on practically equal
terms with men, and nearly all pro-
fessions are open to them if they
choose to avail tlemselves of the
opportunity. Chilean women have al-
ready distinguished themselves con-
siderably in medicine, in dentistry, and
in literature,
Pen Picture of Sultan
by No Meuns Flattering
In the Menorsh Journal, Marvin
Lowenthal in writing of Herzl's Dia-
ries, a three-volumue work which reeent- |
ly appeared in Gerun.an, describes the
founder of Zionism’'s entertaining ex-
periences with Abdul Hamid durlug
the last days of his notable court.
“The sultan stood before me exict-
ly- as 1 had- pietured him, smuail,- thin,
with a great hooked-nose, full dyed
beard, a weak, trembling voice. He
wore his: imposing Selamik uniform,
diamond-studded decorations, gloves.
= a . He gave me his hand, and we
seated ourselves. I sank deep and
comfortable in the cushions. He sat
on a divan, his sword between his
knees. Ibrahim sat and stood. When
the sultan spoke to Ibrahim I watched
my lord carefully, and he retaliated
when I spoke to the interpreter Ir
¥rench. i
“The sultan bmpressed me as a
weak, cowardly, but thoroughly good-
natured man. [I believe him to be
neither clever nor cruel, but an unhap-
py prisoner in whose name a thieving,
infamous scoundrelly camarilla com-
mits the vilest wrongs, Abdul Hamid
Khan II is a generic term for the shab-
blest gang of rascals that ever rep
dered a land unsafe and unhappy. . . .
I see him before me now, the sultan
of this declining robber empire. Small,
mangy, with his badly dyed beard
combed apparently once a week for
the Selamik, the hooked-nose of a
Punchinello, the long, yellow teeth
with a big gap in the upper set, the
fez pulled low over his obviously bald
head. his big ears serving. as I say to
my friends, as a pants protector, to
keep .the fez from slipping down over
his trousers, the weak hands in their
all too big gloves and the colored cuffs
that do pot match his costume, the
bleating voice, restraint in every word
and fear in every glance. And this
rules?”
Famous “Devil’s” Bible
One of the most remarkable books
in the world, called “the Devil's
Bible,” and also the “giant of books,”
has been brought out of its hiding
place in the royal library of Stock-
holm, following a request for a photo-
stat copy from the city of Prague,
where it was captured at the Swedish
conquest in 1648. It was written 800
years ago, and legend says that It was
completed during a single night by a
monk who was doomed to die. He
had to have assistance from the devil,
however, and in gratitude made a full-
page portrait of him, horns, cloven
hoof and all, which has ever since re-
mained in the Bible, according to the
Detroit News.
The book is probably the largest
Bible in the world, the pages being a’
yard high by a foot and a half wide.
It is written on 309 parchment sheets,
for which, according to tradition, 100
donkey hides were required. The let-
tering is beautifully illuminated in gold
and bright colors.
Training Women Doctors
The jubilee of the London (Royai
Free hospital) School of Medicine for
Women, part of the University of
London, will be celebrated in October,
says London Tit-Bits.
At the present time there are nearly
100 women students who pass on for
their hospital training to the Royal
Free hospital, the governors of which
institution made possible from the
first the training necessary for fully
qualified woman doctors.
This is the only center of medical
raining exclusively for women in the
British empire, and today its medical
students include women from eighteen
countries.
A thousand graduates of the Londor,
School of Medicine for Women are
now practicing in various parts of the
world. 2 »
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Friendship Strained
An amateur in Professor Karr's
play-acting class at the summer ses-
sion at Indiana university did not have
a dress that she thought suitable for
the part of the extravagant wife she
was to play. Going to one of the girls
in the house where she roomed, she
asked, “May I borrow your tan and
red dress? I want tc wear it in the
play tonight.”
The other girl replied, “Why, that h
my very best dress. I hate to lend it.
Haven't I anything else you would
care to borrow?”
“No, that is exactly what I wani
I am supposed to look sloppy,” the
new actress admitted before she real-
ized what she was saying.—Indianap.
olis News.
Strange Bedfellows
The big house on the hill was filleu
with company. Phil, one of the
younger sons of the large family, was
sharing his bed with his father be-
cause of the crowded conditions
About the middle of the night the
father was awakened by -Phil, whe
was locking under the bed and in the
covers. He was almost on the verge
of tears. !
“I caught a pretty snake down alon,
the creek today and put him under
my pillow when 1 came to bed. but
now he’s gone,” the child sobbed.—
Indianapolis News. }
Increasing Uses for Paper
New uses for paper are being con
stantly discovered, making further in-
roads upon the already dwindling
supply in this country. Durable and
flexible garments are now being manu-
factured from paper made from the
mulberry tree, and cooking bags,
horseshoes, bottles and grain sacks, all’
made of paper, have been procurable
for some time,
Camphor for Sore Eyes
It is surprising how quickly eye in-
flammation is helped by camphor, hy-
drastis, witchhazel, etc., as mixed in
Lavoptik eye wash. One small bot-
tle helps any case sore, weak or
strained eyes. Aluminum eye cup
free. Runkle’s Drug Store. 69-40
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