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"Bellefonte, Pa., August 21, 1925.
Quaint Annual Festival
in Shakespeare’s Town
Coming almost coincidentally with
Thanksgiving day in Canada, is cele-
brated at the historic town of Strat-
ford-on-Avon, immortalized by WIil-
liam Shakespeare, what is called the
annual “Mop” day, the Montreal Fami-
ly Herald tells us. Its name was de-
rived from the oldtime custom of men
with mops journeying through the
streets; but although this has now
dled out, the fair has never lost its
quaint name. Pigs and other animals
are roasted whole in the streets, in
small, walled-in spaces. At the larg-
est Mop, which was just before the
outbreak of the war with Germany,
there were 36 pigs and 16 other
beasts roasted. The meat is sold at
adjacent tables or to the citizens who
send their servants to fetch it. Part
of the custom is to eat Banbury cakes
on Mop day. Originally a hiring fair,
both for farm hands and for maidserv-
ants, a fortnight later it is followed
by the “Runaway Mop.” This was in-
stituted for those who, having found
their situations unsatisfactory, had
run away. Servants hired at the
“Little Mop” were forced to keep their
places until the “Big Mop” came
around again. For the “Big Mop”
there are countless caravans and side-
shows, switchbacks, and wild-beast
shows; but for the “Runaway” there
are only a small number, as few as
five pigs and two beasts sometimes
sufficing for the roast.
8
“Doctors and Quinine”
Built Bolivian Railway
The most wonderful, and at the same
time the most isolated, railway in the
world is in South America. It begins
and ends 2,000 miles from civilization.
The terminus of steam navigation up
the Amazon and its mighty tributary,
the Madevia river, is at Porto Velho,
2,000 miles from the sea. Here the
Madeira-Marmore railway begins, car-
rying the traveler and his merchan-
dise past 250 miles of cataracts and
rapids to the navigable rivers of
Bolivia,
The task of getting European goods
into northeastern Bolivia used to be
gigantic. It took six months, and
every pound had to be carried on the
backs of natives to escape the rapids.
The rallway was begun as long ago as
1874, but it had to be abandoned, be-
cause every sleeper laid cost a life.
It was only when medical science
stepped in to help the engineers that
the colossal task was accomplished
ten years ago.
The line was built by the govern-
ment of Brazil. It circumvents 19
cataracts, starts 2,000 miles from any
other railroad, and ends at a similar
distance in Bolivia. The great water-
ways complete the journey from At-
lantic to Pacific. "The Americans say
that it was really built by “Doctor
Lovelace and quinine.”
Isinglass Production
Isinglass is the commercial name for
dried swimming bladders of several
varieties of fish. The amount of gela-
tin in isinglass is from 86 to 93 per
cent and even more. It is prepared by
tearing the air bladder or sound from
the back of the fish, from which it has
been loosened by striking several
blows with a wooden club, then wash-
ing in cold water. The black outer
skin Is removed with a knife, again
washed and spread on a board to dry
in the open air, with the white shiny
skin turned outward. To prevent
shriveling or shrinking, the bladders
must be fastened to a drying board.
The best qualily of isinglass comes
from sounds that are dried in the sun.
After drying, the sound is again
moistened with warm water and the
interior shiny skin is removed by ham-
mering or rubbing. Finally, it is rolled
. between two polished iron rollers.
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> Archeology School in Cave
Prof. George Collie, head of the
~ anthropology department at Beloit col-
lege, at Beloit, Wis. is planning on
:going to Europe and starting a school
«of archeology in a cave in southern
France. Only about a dozen students
will be permitted to attend the school
at one time and they will have to sup-
port themselves while there. The main
purpose of the school Is to test the
theory that man originated in south.
western France. Although Professor
Collie himself believes man originated
in Africa, he is willing to test the
theory advanced that France was the
cradle of the human race, If the pian
is carried out, the school itself will be
in one of the prehistoric caves. Lodg-
ing accommodations for the students
will be close at hand.—Pathfinder Mag:
azine.
Color-Blindness
Prof. H. E. Roaf has described a
new method for the investigation of
color-blindness. It consists in finding
the wave length of light by which a
color-match given by a color-blind per-
son appears also to match for one of
normal vision. It is evident when this
has been found that the region of the
spectrum in which the defect lies must
also have been removed. The prob-
lem, therefore, is one of cutting off
different regions of the spectrum and
finding the wave-length limits of the
smallest decrease in the spectrum for
which the original and the comparison
color match to a normal person. In
28 cases it was found that the defect
is always In the red end of the gpec-
trum,
African Oil Palm Has
Great Variety of Uses
Unlike the date and the coconut
palm, the oil palm is not at all well
known, Nevertheless, it is exceeding-
ly useful. In the Congo, writes Mr.
Isaac F. Marcosson in “An African Ad-
venture,” and for that matter in vir-
tually all of the West Africa, it is the
staff of life.
Thousands of years ago the Egyp-
tians used the sap for embalming the
bodies of their kingly dead. Today the
oil palm not only represents the most
important agricultural industry of the
colony—it has long since surpassed
rubber as the premier product—but it
has an almost bewlldering variety of
uses. It is food and drink and shelter.
From the trunk the native extracts
his wine; from the fruit comes oil for
soap, for salad dressing and for mar-
garine; with the leaves the native
makes a roof for his house; with the
fiber he makes his mats, his baskets
and his strings for fishing nets. The
wood itself he uses in building.
An ofl palm will bear fruit. within
seven years after the young tree is
planted. The fruit comes in what is
called a regime, which resembles a
huge bunch of grapes; each fruit in
the cluster is approximately the size
of a large date. The outer part, which
is called the pericarp, is almost en-
tirely yellow oil incased in a thick
skin. Imbedded In the oil is the ker-
nel, which contains a finer oil. The
fruit is boiled down, and the kernels
are dried and exported in bags to
England, where they are broken open
ind the oil in them used for making
margarine.
For hundreds of years the natives
have gathered the fruit of the palm
and have extracted the oil. The waste
at first was enormous; the blacks
threw away the kernels because they
were unaware of the valuable sub-
grance inside.—Youth’s Companion,
py
Few Have, or Acquire,
Good Thinking Habits
The average man works about eight
hours a day, or is supposed to. The
rest of the time is divided about equal-
ly, so the theory runs, between recrea-
tion and sleep.
Of the 16 waking hours how many
are devoted to thinking? Psychologists
tell us that a tenth is a liberal allow-
ance, and, in actual practice, from that
down. Only a little more than an hour
and a half out of the twenty-four oc-
cupied in thinking! st
Thinking:is one of the most dificult
and trying of occupations, says Col-
lier’'s. Were this not so it is probable
that we might spend more time at it.
To prove this, try to concentrate your
mind on the book you have just read;
on the lecture you have recently
listened to; on the Important inter-
view you have just had. Try to remem-
a
‘ber and recount to yourself, item by
item, just as much as you can of the
thing you read or listened to. It will
tire you out. Unless you have trained
vourself to the task your mind will
wander—you will lose the thread.
Psychologists recommend the culti-
vation of thinking habits; they recom-
mend less reading and more thinking
about what you have read and heard
and seen.
“As we do this well or ill,” says
John Stoart Mill, “so will we dis-
charge well or ill the duties of our
several callings.”
Sky Problems That Are
Puzzle to Scientists
Scientists have weighed the planets,
the sun, and the moon; we know the
distance of stars whose light takes
centuries to reach us, and we can even
measure accurately the minute amount
of heat given by distant stars. For
all that, the sky is still full of puz-
zles which astronomers are aitempt-
ing to solve.
Take, for instance, the problem of
dark stars. Possibly it has never oc-
curred to you that there are such
bodies, yet for every bright star you
can see on a clear night there must
be thousands which have gone cold
and are therefore invisible. Yet, dead
as they are, they are still plunging
through space at appalling speed.
On February 2, 1901, there blazed
out in the constellation of Perseus a
star of amazing brilllance. It was
not, of course, a new star. What had
really happened was that.one of these
dark stars had elther hit another, or,
perhaps, struck one of the big gas
clouds which hang in space. The re-
sult was an explosion on a scale we
eannot even imagine.
These dark stars and gas clouds are
among the greatest of sky puzzles. It
is only three years ago that a Dutch
scientist discovered a mystery cloud
140,000,000,000,000 miles in length and
twice that distance from the solar sys-
tem. It may be gas, it may be dust.
We do not know and probably we
never shall.
Line of Least Resistance
Janet’s husband was a simple old
fellow,
One day the good laundress wanted
her husband to paint the mangle.
Having told him what to do, she went
out to buy the dinner.
On her return she could see no sign
of her husband in the cellar.
“Joe! Joel” she called. “Where are
you?”
“Upstairs!” replied Joe from above.
“What are you doing up there?” ,
“Painting the mangle.” i
“What are you painting up there
for?”
“Well, the paint was up here!” re-
plied Joe.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally.
The first letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will all
the white spaces up te the first black square to the right, and a number under
“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the mext black one
below. Np letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words;
except proper mames, Abbreviations, slang, imitials, technical terms ‘and obso<
lete forms are Indicated ta the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLENo. 5.
i PPE PR 5 IE I7
9 0 = Tes Awe
13, Al 1S 4 ; 15 |/6
77 73 ! 7
Mi 2 6 27
28 0
5
7
51 52, 53 5
55 56 57 59
Fe) ol 6
64 [eS 66 e7 |68
9 0
(©, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal. Vertical.
1—Footgear 1—Senior (abbr.)
5—To correct a MSS. v 2—That man 8—ledze
9—To peruse 4—Boy’'s name
10—Mexican coin 5—Period of time
11—Hebrew month 6—Obligation
12A—Double 7-—Part of ‘to be”
14—Ribbon on a watch 8—Preposition 11—Assiats
15—Note of the scale
17—Maiden loved by Zeus
18—Leg joint 19—To perform
20—Indefinite article
21—Depicted 24—Below (poet.)
26—Land measure 28—To wander
30—Long, narrow inlet.
31—Dart 32—Pleasant odor
34—Tall, spare and loose-jointed
36—You and I
37—Part of “to be”
38—Scotch costume
41—To mark with a hot iron
44—Encourages 46—Fuss
48—The world 61—Deposits
52—Concerning
54=——Circular motion
55—Above 56—To court
57—Metal 69—Otherwise
60—Boy’'s name 61—Skill
62—Body of water
63—Pgeposition
“64—Saucy 66—Mature
69—State of unconsciousness
70-—Slender
Solution will appear in next Issue.
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Africa Make
Progress.
Travelers in Slow
All over central Africa the tsetse
fly renders pack animals of any kind
an impossible dream; except for a
very few, though increasing, arteries
motor roads are unknown; and so
when one travels on one’s feet, and
one’s baggage goes on the heads of
porters.
Various paternal governments have
laid down that these loads shall not
exceed 50 pounds in weight, and one
of the things to remember about Cen-
tral African travel—“safari, ? as it is
called—is that one’s boxes ‘should be
of such size that when filled with or-
dinary things they will turn the scale
at about that weight.
Another thing to remember is never
to be in a hurry. The African porter
is sure, but he is amazingly slow.
Three miles per hour is the accepted
pace and 15 miles a day about the lim-
i on a journey lasting any length of
ime.
To the man accustomed to be rush-
ed the same distance in half an hour
this may seem unutterably tedious;
but it has its compensations—the
start through the magical freshness of
an African dawn; the endless succes-
sion of fascinating sights; here a herd
of hartebeeste or zebra galloping
away in alarm, here a native village
with laughing, chattering women and
solemn naked children gazing shyly at
the white man; here (great excite-
ment) the fresh tracks of elephants
churning across the tracks; the arri-
val in camp and the pleasant comfort
of a battered dock chair while the
cook prepares that finest of meals—
meat one has shot one’s self; the long
dreamless nights of perfect sleep.
And, above all, the African is relia-
ble; he does not go on a strike; but,
being merely a poor, ignorant savage,
serves his master with loyalty and
fidelity for the wages agreed upon in
the first instance.—Exchange.
i ——— i —s
Ford a Billionaire.
Bitter though the pill may be, Wall
street is forced to declare that Henry
Ford is the country’s first billionaire.
Wall street watches Henry like a
hawk watches a chicken—and hates
him. But it was Wall street that
first called attention recently to the
facet that the balance sheet of the Ford
Motor Car company shows a valuation
of $863,000,000, and that in addition
to owning almost all of that plant,
Ford owns a railroad, a steamship
line, several big lumber camps, a
string of Kentucky coal mines and
goodness only knows what else. Last
year was Ford’s best year. He sold
cars at the rate of 250 an hour, 24
hours a day for the 300 working days.
He paid his employees $235,001,528 J
salaries during the year. And when
we realize that the Ford company was
incorporated only 22 years ago with a
capital of but $22,000 it knocks the
wind out of the young men who com-
plain that “there isn’t a chance for a
fellow to get anywhere in this coun-
try any more.’
a——————— e—————
——Uncle Sam is giving special at-
tention to profits made in Florida real
estate. He proposes to get his share.
12—Material consisting of coarsa
diamonds
13—Musical drama 14—Deadly
15—Gambling game 16—Afresh
22—Period of time 23—Battle
25—Three-toed sloth
26—Historic boat 27—To weep
29—Loud, mournful cries
31—Part of a heavenly body having
the appearance of a handle
(pl.)
33—Encountered 35—Atmosphere
38—Tool for opening a lock
39—Possessive pronoun
40—Wooden shoe
41—Boxing matches
42—Horse
44—Wood of the agalloch
46—Military orchestra
47—To perform
49—Horse's gait
50—RBrave man
62—QGreat artery
56—Slightly heated
68—Horny part of fingers
64—Per cent (abbr.) .
65—Prefix meaning early period of
time
67— 3.14159
68—Space occupied by letter "M"™
43—Arid
‘63—Rows
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Spotlight of World
Turned on Minister
The minister is looked upon as the
lgader of the community. He stands
on a high pedestal. The church atmos-
phere, the organ, the painted windows,
the silence, the solemnity, set him off
and apart from his fellows. There is
something of enchantment and mys-
tery about him. Wisdom must flow
from the fountain head, and what the
poor overtaxed man can give 1s mere
words, and sometimes dull ones at
that.
He must stand a little straighter,
keep himself aloof, talk dogmatically,
and be just a little above his fellows.
That makes the minister a rather lone-
some man, spiritually.
He cannot share himself with his
fellow. He must share the pretended,
artificlal self with them, He does that
unconsciously, of course, but that only
makes him a more unfortunate person
still. He gradually identifies himself
with the thing people think he is, and
his real self goes withering away, and
his real.personality loses its force and
character and significance.—A Minis-
ter’'s Son, in Century Magazine.
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