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Bellefonte, Pa., August 14, 1925.
American Eagle Well
Named Monarch of Air
The American bald eagle is really
misnamed. His head is well clothed
with feathers, being pure white in the
adult, which gives rise to the name
“bald.” The tall also is white, the re
mainder of the body is dark brown.
The young bird Is dark throughout,
three years being required for the as-
sumption of the full white markings.
In this immature stage the bird was
once considered distinet and was varl-
ously known as the Bird of Washing-
ton and as the black or gray eagle.
Young bald eagles are very like golden
eagles and the two are often confused,
but on close inspection the bald may
be known by the fact that its legs are
bare of feathers for some distance
above the toes. There is little differ-
ence in extent of wing and total length
between the golden and bald eagles,
but the latter is stouter and heavier
in body. It is a strange fact that im-
mature bald eagles, due to greater
length of feather, average larger thar
adults, 4 mee
' In fspect the bald eagle unques-
tionably is a noble and inspiring bird.
The - beak is heavy and strangely.
hooked, while the corners of the mouth
have a downward curve, which gives
the bird an appearance of geverity. A
bony place extends over the eye§ and
has a curious resemblance to the
beetling brows often observed in men
of strong character. The body is heavy
and muscular, with a suggestion of
latent strength, while the powerful
legs and feet, with their tigerlike tal-
ons, confirm the impression of a crea-
ture able and willing to hold its owr
under any conditions.
In flight the bald eagle is magnifi-
cent. With pinions wide spread and
floating with hardly perceptible effort,
it glides through the air with an ease
and grace which no man-made machine
has ever equaled. Aided by favorable
air currents and swinging in great
circles, it rises to tremendous heights,
aeften beyond the range of vision of the
naked eye.—Lee 8. Crandall, in Men
tor.
Too Much Water for Fish
Even the finny inhabitants of old
Father Thames suffered inconvenience
on account of the floods of the past
season. The first rush of water drives
the fish from their customary swims,
and in order not to Le driven into un-
familiar waters, they take refuge in
eddies and quiet corners where they
can hold their own against the cur-
rent, and into which food is borne and
collects. As the river rises so the wa-
ter colors and darkens, until light
fails to penetrate to the bottom, so
that food becomes invisible and the
fish are driven to shallow water. When
the stream overflows its banks and
spreads over the adjacent meadows
the fish quickly follow it in search of
quiet water and the feast of drowned
insects and earthworms to be found:
there. There is, however, always the
risk that they may be stranded by a
vapid subsidence of the flood.
Competition a Stimulant
A runner seldom breaks a record
unless he is closeiy pressed. A base-
ball team plays its best game against
a close adversary. A horse scores its
best mark when pitted against fast
horses.
The retail dealer plays his best game
when pressed by competition. The
one sure way to make a merchant
slough into mediocrity and slipshod
methods is to take away his competi-
tion. Honest, ethical competition de-
velops good merchants, and makes
fine, alert citizens. A lack of competi-
tion breeds laziness and Insolence.
The greater your competition,
greater your opportunity for growth.—
Good Hardware.
Miners Travel by Plane
Recently to eliminate travel over
rast desolate tracts in Alaska on the
hard journey to the gold fields, the air-
plane has been called into use, with
the result that the miners have flown
into the faraway regions In a few
hours at the most. The danger from
starvation and of freezing to death
have thus been eliminated. The ex-
periment has been pronounced highly
successful and more planes will be
brought in for that work alone in the
Cassiar county district of northern
British Columbia.
Costly Suit of Clothes
A native found the first piece of
gold in Australia,
Seeing his master counting gold
coins, he said he found a rock which
looked like the yellowish coins. He
offered to give it to him for a new suit
of clothes.
The master later sold the nugget
for more than $20,000.
Too Absent-Minded
They were discussing the absent.
mindedness of an acquaintance who
had just passed.
“That habit nearly cost him his life
when he was on his holiday,” remarked
one.
“How was that?”
“He fell overboard and forgot that
he knew how to swim.”
Athletic Prowess
For two decades records in practi-
<ally every field of dthletics have been
broken, and the limit of physical en-
durance when no more records can be
broken is not in sight.
the.
POINTS OF DANGER
IN THUNDER STORM
Shelter of Trees Especially
to Be Avoided.
The danger of death by lightning is
very small, It is almost negligible.
But not quite. Men are killed by light-
ning. The season of thunder storms
is at hand, and it is only the part of
common sense to minimize the dan-
ger as far as possible.
Most of those who are killed by
lightning are not in their homes. They
are out somewhere in the open. Prob-
ably they are seeking ghelter under
trees. The worst possible thing to do
in a thunder storm is to snuggle under
a tree. Any tree is likely to be the
lightning’s target, and this Is particu-
larly true of trees like the elm, which
have much sap. The beech, which is
a dry tree, is much safer than the elm,
but no tree is surely immune. Light-
ning which “strikes” finds a tree more
frequently than it finds anything else.
A man in the open is so small a mark
that the bolts of Olympian wrath
usually scorn to kill so insignificant a
thing. A man under a tree which is
struck by lightning may escape with
only a severe shock, but he is likely to
be killed by some electric prank.
It is to be remembered that water
18 a conductor of electricity. For this
reason the sappy elm is struck oftener
than the desiccated beech. For this
reason, too, it is wise for the wan-
derer in a thunder storm to have his
raiment as wet as possible. If one's
clothes are dry the lightning is likely
to course through the watery fluids of
the human body, bringing sudden, com-
plete and disputable death. But if the
garments are saturated till they are
wetter than the body the lightning may
follaw them to the earth, ripping and
tearing them but not necessarily rip-
ping and tearing the man within them.
Of course the man whose clothing is
struck by lightning must suffer a se-
vere shock, but even this is better than
the alternative of being surely elec-
trocuted.
If you are caught in the woods in
an electric storm the best strategy is
to get out of the woods. The next
best plan is to get as wet as possible.
If there is a brook handy it is advis-
able to lie in the brook rather than to
wait for the rain to do the wetting.
Eschew the forest and seek wetness.
Thus you will probably attain old age
in spite of the lightning. Because the
lightning has never yet killed you it
is no safe assumption that it never
will. The chances are a million to one
in your favor. But there is no sense
in igooring the millionth chance.
Didn’t Go Down
President George M. Verity of the
American Rolling Mills company, who
in 33 years of business life has never
bad a single labor trouble, said in
New York the other day:
“] believe in frank dealing. Employ-
ers should be honest and open with
their men. Deceit, hypocrisy and cant
never go down.
“A millionaire was addressing the
inmates of an almshouse,
“*‘Ah, dear friends,’ he said, ‘pros-
perity has wrecked and ruined count-
less lives.’
“‘No doubt o’ that,’ spoke up an old
pauper on a back bench. ‘All the
same, boss, I wish to goodness I'd a’
been ruined by prosperity instead of
adversity. I bet it’d been a darn sight
pleasanter.’”
Says Earth Stands Still
An instrument which, the maker
says, proves that the modern ideas of
the solar system are wrong, has been
invented by Chang Chung-shan, a:
Chinese astronomer. He says his in-
strument demonstrates that the earth
does not move, but stands still, sus-
pended in air like a soap bubble. He
says, further, he can prove with it
that the sun and other heavenly bodies
revolve around the earth. With the
aid of two colleagues he has written
a book in support of this theory but
it has not yet been translated into a
foreign language.
Growth in Savings
The intensive educational thrift cam-
paigns conducted in this country by the
banks, schools, American Society for
Thrift and other groups has shown
splendid results.
Savings deposits increased from $8,-
425,000,000 to $20,875,000,000 in the
period between 1912 and 1924 or at the
rate of 150 per cent while the number
of savings bank depositors increased
208 per cent in the same period.—
Thrift Magazine.
Poet’s Home in Danger
Longfellows early home at Portland,
Maine, will be preserved and main-
tained permanently if sufficient money
is raised by members of the Interna-
tional Longfellow society. The home
stands at Fore and Hancock streets in
Portland. It is in danger of being lost
through foreclosure of mortgage, and
Edwin Markham is active in raising
the woney to prevent the foreclosure,
Autos in United States
The number of motor vehicles owned
in the United States, it is noted in
Good Hardware, is still continuing to
increase. In the year 1924 the total
registration wag 17,700,000. This is a
gain of approximately 2,500,000 over
1923. There is, roughly, one car to
every six people.
Danzig Mayor a Giant
Doctor Sahm, president of the free
city of Danzig, is nearly 6 feet 8
inches in height.
Daily Exercise tor
Owners of Millions
Clipping Coupons: Strip, don gym
trunks and take bonds and scissors
into steam room of Turkish bath.
Raise bonds and scissors over head,
Inhaling slowly, and elevate right knee
as high as it will go. (If left-handed,
elevate left knee.) Lower bonds and
scissors to level of knee, exhaling
slowly, and use knee-cap for a desk,
resting bond upon it and clipping cou-
pon. Repeat until day’s supply of
bonds is exhausted.
Opening Safe Deposit Box: This
exercise, if faithfully followed, is a
certain reducer of waist measure. Se
lect safe deposit box on tier of boxes
nearest floor and, refusing proffered
aid of vault attendant, Jean down,
bending from the waist, with knees
rigid and feet together, insert key and
unlock box yourself. Do this dailv
until apoplexy claims its victim.
Pushing Push Buttons: Have large
flat-top desk in private office fitted with
row of push-buttons within convenient
reach of your chair. Inhaling slowly,
instruct your secretary to carry chair
around to opposite side of desk. Lean
forward flat across inkwell and push
buttons, calling in turn production
manager (exhaling), sales manager
(inhaling), eflicienéy enginear (ex-
haling), building engineer (inhaling),
and special cop in the main hall
(exhaling). Note: Care should be
taken to inhale only after exhaling,
otherwise half the benefit of this ex
ercise will be lost.
Founding Desk : This exercise may
be taken alone, but more satisfactory
results are obtained in the presence of
a room full of people, preferably your
employees. Inhaling slowly, summon
employees, and, clenching fist, pound
desk. Exhaling, raise arm, bending
at elbow, and pound desk again. Keep
this up ten minutes, or until employees
are mildly fatigued. If deemed desir-
able, words may be spoken briskly dur
ing this exercise. Develop ego.
Picking Petals: An admirable ex-
ercise, especially for back, shoulder
and arm muscles while riding to and
from business conferences in limou-
sine. Lean back in padded seat and,
reaching forward with right arm, pick
petal from rose in vase across the car.
Alternate right, left, right, left, until
no petals remain. As you become pro-
ficient, and your muscle and wind war-
rant it, daisies may be substituted for
roses. They have more petals and
more resistance.—A. H. T., in Kansas
City Star,
Unconscious Prejudice
Senator Edwards said in a prohibt-
tion argument in Trenton:
“We can’t argue prohibition fairly
and squarely because we are all prej-
udiced about it one way or another.
We claim we're unbiased, but we soon
give ourselves away.
“We're like the man whose name
was drawn. for the murder jury.
“ ‘Mr. Jones,’ they said to him, ‘be-
fore we take you on this jury we
must find out whether you have
formed any prejudice about the de-
fendant’s guilt or innocence.
“ ‘No,’ said Jones ‘No, 1 ain’t
formed no prejudice whatever.
“ ‘And, Mr. Jones, have you, or have
you not, any conscientious objections
to capital punishment?
“ ‘No objections at all, said Jones,
‘in a case like this.””
Cultivation of the Snail
The harvest of the succulent snail
3f the cultivated species for Euro-
pean consumption has begun in
Switzerland and France, and thou-
sands of men and women will be busy
throughout the summer in this curious
industry. The annual production in
both countries is about three million
pounds, but as the demand is far
greater than the supply the devices
of the adulterator supplement nature,
and pieces of meat, generally veal,
are introduced into the empty shells.
The large fields which are prepared
for the propagation of the snail gen-
erally lie at the edge of a wood or
forest, sheltered from the sun. The
soil of the farm is well sanded and
limed, and round it is built a wall
two or three feet high.
Foolish Suicide
Walter 8. Gifford, who at forty is
dresident of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company with its pay-
roll of 340,000 employees, said in a
recent interview in New York:
“I saw in today’s paper an account
of the suicide of a young lawyer. He
had a good future before him, but he
permitted one or two failures to drive
him to despair. Yet the most success-
ful men have more failures than suc-
cesses to their credit.
“This sad case,” Mr. Gifford ended,
“js just another proof that a man is
never too old to learn, but often too
young to realize it.”
Looking to the Future
A gymnasium will be provided for
che dormitory which Harvard univer-
i Is erecting for its medical school.
presenting $125,000 for the gymna-
sium, the donor, Mr. H. S. Vanderbilt,
stated: “The students will learn from
experience of the good which it has
done their own minds and bodies, the
benefit which would accrue to their
future patients and mankind by pre-
scribing and encouraging exercises of
a similar nature.”
Marbles With Toes
Found guilty of bad posture, im
proper shoes and other foot defects,
more than 100 girls at the Colorado
Agricultural college have been or-
dered by the athletic department to
play marbles with their toes as a cor-
rective exercise,
|! KNOWS MAN IN HIS
INFINITE VARIETY
Coed Writes as the Spirii
Has Moved Her.
There may be a lot of them over ai
the University of California, and there
probably are, but I KNOW of ONE gay
young coed who certainly knows abou’
men.
Just listen to her:
“Once upon a time I thought I un-
derstood Man, and could marry on€
with one hand tied behind me and my
eyes shut.
“But I have discovered:
“If you flatter a man, it frightens
him to death.
“If you permit him to make love to
you, he soon tires of you.
“If you don’t he is offended from the
start.
“If you agree with him on everything,
you soon cease to interest him.
“If you don’t you cease to charm
him.
“If you don’t believe all he tells you,
he thinks you are a cynic.
“If you do, he thinks you are a fool.
“If you wear gay colors and rough
and startling hats, he hesitates to take
you out.
“If you wear a little brown toque
and a tailored suit, he takes you out,
but gazes all evening at some other
woman in gay colors,
“If you are jealous of him, he can’t
endure you.
“If you are not he can’t understand
you,
“If you share in his gayeties and ap-
prove of his smoking, he vows you are
leading him to the devil.
“If you disapprove of his gayeties
and urge him to give up smoking, you
are driving him to the devil.
“If you are affectionate he soon tires
of your kisses and seeks consolation In
some other woman’s.
“If you are a sweet, old-fashioned
clinging vine, he doubts if you have
any brains.
“If you are modern, advanced and in-
dependent, he doubts if you have scru-
ples or a heart.
“If you are cute and boyish, he
longs for a soulmate.
“If you are brilliant, he longs for a
playmate.
“If you are temperamental and po-
etic, he longs for a helpmate.
And all the time he’s falling in love
with you he's trying to make you into
what you are not, never were or never
will be.
“Now, please do not ask me how I
discovered all these things about Man.”
—San Francisco Chronicle.
Chinese Palaces Cheap
Hard times and the rising cost of
living are having a mournful effect
upon survivors of the late imperial
house of China. Princely mansions
and royal Manchu heirlooms are free-
ly being offered on the market with
only a mild response. Owing to finan-
cial pressure, Prince Tsei Tao, uncle
of the boy ex-emperor, Hsun Tung,
has disposed of his palace and exten-
sive grounds in the north city to a
foreigner for a sum reported as $150,
000 Mex.—about $80,000 in American
money. That price is remarkably low.
Prince Tsai Hsun, another uncle of
the deposed young monarch, has sold
his residence to a foreigner and sev-
eral other palaces are to be had from
Manchu princes who either need the
money or are afraid that a radical
change in the government may bring
about the confiscation of their prop
erties.
A Great Scheme
“Are there many snakes in this re
gion?’ asked a tourist.
“Well—p’tu!—yes,” replied Gap
Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. “Some
fellers raise ’em for use at picnics.
They promote matrimony right
sharply.”
“How is that?”
“If a feller has been keeping com
pany with a girl, or for that matter,
a gent with an old maid, about go
long, she goes to the snake-man and
pays him. He turns a mess of snakes
loose at the next picnic, and directly
all over the place you see girls and
old maids jumping right into young
fellers’ and older gents’ arms, a-hol-
lerin’, ‘Save me, Roy! and so forth.
And about the next thing you know
they're married.”—Kansas City Star.
Many Use Elevators
Nearly every one rides in America.
fn addition to the large number of
people who use horizontal transit,
such as railroads, trolley cars and sub-
ways, one of every ten persons in
the United States takes a vertical ride
every day. This means that the pas-
senger elevators in the various build-
ings of the country carry up and
bring down about 14,000,000 persons
every day. Study made by the Na-
tional Association of Building Mana-
gers and Owners’ Associations shows
that for every 15.9 square feet of
rental space a passenger must be car-
ried. The office space aféa' of the
United States is placed at 22,600,000
feet.
The Wrong Method
“The French expect to pay theh
war debts, and all this pretense of
refusing to pay is just bargaining—
the Latin method. But to try such a
method on us Americans is certainly
tactless.”
The speaker was Mayor Hilary
Howse, of Nashville. He went on:
“Such tactlessness reminds me of
the Nashville man who used to go
round saying to people in trouble:
, “‘I'm not as old as you are, but
‘my advice to you is—etc.’”
Head Lights Violate Law.
Persons obliged to be on the streets
and highways at night are impressed
by the number of glaring motor car
headlights, despite the repeated warn-
ing sent out from Harrisburg that
highway patrolmen were going to
“check up” for the purpose of min-
imizing the nuisance.
_ In addition to the glaring head-
lights, there are any number of ears
running nightly on the streets and
highways with only one headlight il-
luminated.
Word comes from Harrisburg that
members of the state highway patrol
are to be instructed to put a stop to
the disregard of motorists of the
headlight regulation. This order is
MEDICAL.
Back Lame and Achy?
The Advice of This Bellefonte Resi-
dent Should Help You to
Get Well.
Do you suffer nagging backache?
Feel dizzy, nervous and depressed?
Are the kidney secretions irregular;
breaking your rest? i
Likely your kidneys are at fault.
Weak kidneys give warning. You
have backache; rheumatic twinges.
You feel weak, tired, all worn out.
Heed the warning. Don’t delay!
Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diu-
retic to the kidneys.
Your neighbors recommend Doan’s.
Here is a Bellefonte case:
Harry Rossman, drayman, says:
“My kidneys didn’t act right and I had
to get up several times at night. My
back was lame and ached a great deal,
especially in the morning, making it
hard to keep at my work. I used
Doan’s Pills and they quickly relieved
me. My kidneys were soon acting
regularly.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Pills—the same that Mr.
Rossman had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 70-32 |
pouring into the State Highway De-
partment from all parts of Pennsylva-
nia concerning glaring headlamps.
Disregard of the headlight regula-
tion has become an actual menace in
many places, especially on wet nights
when the concrete highway reflects
the lights.
reer:
——British interests have started
in Buenos Aires the largest beef pack-
ing plant in the world, even larger
than the Swift plant that handles
4,000 beeves daily.
——~ Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Looking well—well, X should
SAY 60
That is why I eat and play so.
—Young Mother Hubbard
Good, pure food for the
sturdy youngsters. - Keeps
’em in good health. Well
fed parents feel like romp-
ing with them. Satisfying
service and fine meats. But-
ter and eggs for happy meal
times.
Beezer’s Meat Market
ON THE DIAMOND
84-34-1y Bellefonte, Pa.
— A EE PT AS SAE PAR ly
due to the complaints which have been
| restful night on Lake Erie
Makes a pleasant break in your journey. A good bed in a clean,
cool stateroom, a long sound sleep and an appetizing breakfast
in the morning.
Steamers “SEEANDBEE”-“CITY OF ERIE”—*“CITY OF BUFFALO”
Daily May Ist to November 15th
Leave Buffalo=—
9:00 P. M. Ea
Arrive Cleveland *7:00 A. M. { Standard Time
1 Leers Cleveland —9:00 P. M.
Arrive Buffalo —*7:00 A. M.
i San vary OF FUFEALO» arrives 7:30 A. M.
onnections for Cedar Point, Put-in-Bay, Toledo, Detroit and oth.
Ask your ticket agent or tourist agency for tickets x C& B oe. bell
Automobile Rate—$7.50.
Send for free sectional puzzle chart of
the Great Ship “SEEANDBEE” and
32-page booklet,
The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co.
Cleveland, Ohio
Fare, $5.50
Your Rail Ticket is
Good on the Boats
Lyon & Co.
The Great Ship
SEEANDBEE" =
Length, 500 feet,
Breadth, 98 feet
Lyon & Co.
Specials rmenmau fuqust
In Every Department,
B==A visit to our store will mean money-saving
for you.
We have slashed prices again.
All
Summer Ready-to-Wear and Piece Goods must
go to make room for our New Fall Arrivals.
Silk and Light Wool Dresses
at $10.75; Voile and
English Broadcloth $2
up; Spring and Fall Coats—a good range of colors and
sizes—at $8.00.
All Summer Dress Materials
Broadcloths and Gingham.
For the School Kiddies
included in this sale—
Crepes, Voiles, English
we have Gingham
Dresses as low as
08 cents ; §Wash Suits and Crepes g8 cents.
IT) One Special Lot of Children’s Socks—3 pairs for $1.00,
me
all sizes and colors; 34 lengths.
The Biggest Bargain Ever Offered
—1 table of Shoes
for Ladies and Chil-
dren—just the thing for the kiddies for school wear—$1 up.
New Fall
Arrivals
Canton Crepes, Crepe de Chine, the New
Flannels 54 in. wide, in all the ]atest shades—
Pansy, Pencil Blue,
Jade, Tan, Brown,
+ Russian Green, Cuckoo, Burgundy.
Lyon & Co. wx
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