“Bellefonte, Pa., November 28, 1924.
Not the “Lumoerj. .
Dentist Hal T/i.
A certain dentist lived in i...
who charged his patients not .y |
amount of work done, but by thar co
pacity to pay.
"One day a crew of lumberjucks ca
m from up the river with a boom of
{fogs from the timber regions of the
North. One of the men suffered from
a toothache and consulted the dentist.
‘After making an extraction the dentist
regarded the logger for a moment and
then, when the bearded man from the
woods commenced to feel for his
change, he asked him what he did for
a living.
“Oh, I usually work around a mill”
was the reply.
“Then your charge will be 50 cents,”
vald the dentist.
The logger hauled from his pocket a
huge wad of currency of staggering de-
nominations and commenced to finger
the bills. The dentist was amazed.
“I thought you said you worked
around a mill,” he said, as he rum-
maged in his cash drawer for change.
Well, so I do,” said the logger calm-
iy. “I own the mill.”
The dentist subsequently learned
at the “poor logger” that he had
treated for 50 cents was John Ru-
dolphus Booth, one of the richest men
in: Canada and outstanding lumber
magnate of the continent.—Furbes
Magazine.
Recorded Their Fear
of Premature Burial
Fears of premature burial have re-
sulted in the formation of a society to
effect reforms in the law of death cer-
tification, writes Arthur Pendenys in
John o’ London’s Weekly. There is,
however, nothing new in these fears.
The Egyptians kept the bodies of the
dead under careful supervision by the
priests previous to embalming and um-
til satisfied that life was extinct. The
Greeks were aware of the dangers of
premature burial and often cut off the
fingers of a person believed to be dea”
before cremation,
In modern times, the fear of being
buried alive has haunted many. Wilkie
Collins had this fear, and always left
overnight on his dressing table a note
solemnly enjoining that, should he be
found dead, his supposed death was to
be carefully tested by a doctor. Hans
Andersen always carried a note in his
pocket to the same effect. Harriet Mar-
tineau left her doctor $50 to see that
her head was amputated before burial
Hold Tortoise in Esteem
The tortoise, in the flowery empire
of Japan, is regarded as a symbol of
youth and is venerated. Wedding gar-
ments have tortoises painted on them,
as also have New Years gifts. A
legend heard in China states that the
tortoise is supposed to have borne
upon its shell the basis of moral teach-
ings and the secrets of the unseen.
It is more revered in China than
among practical Japanese, When
fishermen around any of the seaports
haul a large one in with their catch,
they find a Chinese merchant to buy
it. The Chinaman then carves his
name on the shell, that the animal
may know to whom it owes its life,
and taking it out into deep water al-
lows it to go free, thus insuring eo
prosperous long life for himself,
Symbolic Indian Masks
According to the Bureau of Amer-
ican Ethnology, tribes of Indians
throughout North America wore masks
at religious festivals and at some so-
cial gatherings. Sometimes the priests
alone” were masked, though in other
cases the entire company would ap-
pear in masks. The false faces gen-
erally represented supernatural be-
ings. The simplest form of mask
was one prepared from the head of a
buffalo, deer, or some other animal.
The mask stood, mot for the actual
animal, but for the type of animal
and its supernatural characteristics,
and the person wearing it was for the
time being endowed with the distine-
tive quality of the animal.
Nature’s Great Gas Tank
A natural gas tank with a greater
capacity than any tank that man has
ever made is in use at Springfield, N.
Y. In fact, it is sald to have a ca-
pacity 20 times greater than any tank
at present in use. It is ‘a big hole in
the ground, with some peculiar forma-
tion§ which makes it a very secure
holder. It was formerly the center of
a ndtural gas field, but the field was
exhausted, but this great holder is now
used as a storage tank for the gas
from other wells. Tt is pumped in dur-
ing the summer months and drawn
upon during the winter when the de-
mands for gas are greater. This hole
has a storage capacity ‘of 400,000,000
cable feet.
All the Details
foung Si had just returned from
the city, and his chum was asking
him about the experiences, in par-
ticular how he enjoyed eating in an
automat restaurant.
“How do” they work?’ the friend
asked,
“Well, you put your nickel in the
watchemacallit and press tne thing-
umbob, and the dochinkus turns
around and gives you. your food,” ex-
plained $i.
“Isn't that marvelous?’ echoed the
¢hum. “I knew they were wonderful
things, but 1 ain't heard the detafls
before”
Nature’s Amends for
Toll Taken by Years
The critics have always stumbled a
little over this final phase of supreme
genius, They used to think that
Michelangelo's last work was unfin-
ished. They still often think that what
‘we must recognize in such a manifes-
tation is lassitude, failure of energy,
a weakening grasp of brain or hand. I
am not sure that there is not an ele-
ment of truth in such criticism, ob-
serves Havelock Ellis, in the Forum.
Only let us not forget that it is the
mark of high genius, less to display
athletically Titan strength than to be
able to use weakness to reach divine
ends. That power, it may well seem
to us, is supremely visible in the typi-
cal last phase of the highest genius.
The artist has lost his early power of
realistic grip, and with it lost also his
early taste for such power. But he
has lost it only to attain a wider and
deeper and more symbolic mastery of
the world. He no longer cares more
than he has ever before for its es-
sence, and he is conscious of that es-
sence with a delicacy of sensitive per-
ception he never before possessed. He
is no longer concerned with things;
they are receding from his view. As
he rises above the earth, like Elijah in
his chgriet of fire, he now sees it only
in the distance. Henceforth he no
longer deals with things. It is the
soul of things that he brings before
us. That is why his latter work fas-
cinates us endlessly as, slowly, after
many years, enlightened by the long
tourse of our own experience, we be-
gin at last to understand what it
ueans,
Good Stories Told of
Famous French Writer
Max O’Rell, the famous French sat-
Irist, joked to the end. When he was
lying on his deathbed, and after the
doctors had informed him that there
was no hope, he wrote: “I fear that
I am doomed. The doctors give me a
few months, but I believe I shall last
longer. At any rate I shall try; for
"d rather wear a hat than a halo.”
Max O’Rell, like all professional
men, was occasionally imposed on with
regard to hospitality, hostesses invit-
ing him to an “at home” as a guest
and then expecting him to perform, ir
sther words to “tell a few stories.”
Once when this happened, he left the
drawing room hurriedly and “went
down to the hall, whence he returned
in a few minutes in a state of great
excitement, and approaching his host-
ess whispered agitatedly into her ear:
“Madam, what kind of people have
you here? The check you placed in
my overcoat pocket—my fee for to-
night—has been stolen!”—San Fran-
cisco Argonaut.
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series
of sanguinary contests for the posses-
sion of t%ie.English throne, waged by
the adherents of the houses of York
and Lancaster, whose badges were the
white and red roses, respectively. The
struggle, says the Kansas City Star,
commenced with the battle of St.
Albans (1455), and lasted until 1485
when Henry Tudor (of Lancaster) de-
feated and killed Richard IIT (of
York) at Bosworth field. The two
houses were finally united in the per-
son of Henry Tudor (afterward Henry
VII), who in 1486 married Elizabeth
of York, daughter of Edward IV. It is
estimated that the Wars of the Roses
occasioned the deaths of 12 princes of
the blood, 200 nobles and 100,000 of
She gentry and common people of Eng-
and. :
Oldest Almanac
.n the British museum is an al-
manac that is 3,000 years old; it is
supposed to be the oldest in tae
world.
It is written like all other Egyptian
.sanuscripts, on papyrus, and was
found on the mummy of an Egyptian,
who had treasured it apparently as
something sacred, for it is of a strong
religious character. Under the days,
which are written in red ink, there is
a figure followed by three characters,
signifying the probable state of the
weather.
it 1s not entire, but it was evi
dently torn before its owner died. Be-
yond clearly establishing the reign of
Rameses the Great, it contains noth-
ing else of any value.
Doubloon Still Current
The doubloon, that famous coin ou ||
romance, is still in circulation. The
Isabelle doubloon, worth $5, still re-
mains current In Cuba. The doubloon
Go-as-You-Please Spelling
We sometimes fancy that strictly
correct spelling has been turned into a
fetish. ~ Spelling is “largely a knack
after the first tearful steps have been
taken up the slopes of cur English
Parnasse. The letters come by a sort
of instinct. They dance merrily into
the right order of themselves. If some
good people never can spell with
pedantic accuracy, does it matter so
very much? “Oh she knew well. Thy
love did read by rote and could not
spell.” To be an immaculate speller
is like being a copper-plate caligrapa-
Ist. But it remains one of the minor
accomplishments at best. Some of the
best letters have been illspelt. Tt is
the matter that counts.—London Tele
graph.
Ants Sensitive to Sound
If they have no ears, ants can per-
ceive vibrations. Put ants on a tahle
and tap the surface lightly with the
finger. Every ant gives a quick start.
So sensitive are they that the drop-
ping of a tiny bird shot from a height
of only six inches onto the surface
of the table was seen to make every
one of scores of ants give a convulsive
perk.
Ants never sleep.
oirth to death in a land of darkness
and silence. Their strength is prodig-
ious; and their powers of vitality are
equally amazing. for in spite of their
good appetites ants have been shown
to be able to live and work for from
50 to 100 days without food.
Dog-Day Superstitions
An ancient British calendar dealing
with midsummer problems says: New-
horn children must on no account.
during the dog-days. sleep on bones—
not even when hidden heneath their
nurse's lap; and it will bring fatal bad
luck if they be set to sleep on graves.
A deal of superstition still clings round
the baby. When it takes its first air
ing abroad, it is of highest imporiance
that it goes upstairs before going
down. or it will never rise in the world.
In rural cottages. blessed with the
o'd-fashioned wooden cradle, the su-
pe’stition clings to it that to rock the
empty cradle is to rock into it a new
baby.
Smoking in Church
Fhe indignant complaint was re
cently made at a religious conference
in England, to the effect that men po
‘o church smoking and only put out
heir pipes or cigarettes in the church
arch. This objection would have as-
tonished Welshimen of an earlier gen-
oration. Until little more than half a
| ontury ago, ip many part: of Wiles
{te opening of the sermon was thi
ecovnized signal for the male part of
Ye congregation to light their pip =
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