~ ER RR Bellefonte, Pa., January 8, 1926. S—— The Schmidts are Enjoying Life in Washington. Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose Schmidt are evidently pleased with first im- pressions of their new home in Wash- ington. When they brought to a close their long residence in Bellefonte and decided to make their future home in the National Capital it was wit some uncertainly as to whether the change would prove as pleasant as they hoped. Of course there are so many opportunities for cultured di- version in a city like Washington that neither of them will find chance to grow homesick for Bellefonte. The following letter from Mus. Schmidt would indicate that they are very fortunate in having made Wash- ington their home: 1 want to tell you of a rare treat that Mr. Schmidt and I enjoyed lately in Washington. We heard that Ignace Jan Paderewski, the great Polish pianist and statesman, was to give a benefit concert in the Poli theatre, so we secured tickets. The auditorium is large and was filled to standing room. The benefit was for our dis- abled soldiers and their orphans. We were comfortably seated and enjoyed the quiet assembling of that large audience. Mrs. Coolidge was present and had as guests, Mrs. Dawes, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs Nicholas Longworth and her son John Coolidge. There were other notables present and it was all so interesting to us be- case of their connection with our great government. The concert began at 4:30 and last- ed until after 6 p. m., but even then the audience was not sated and finally called for Mr. Paderewski to return. He had already donned his great fur coat and had joined Mme. Pader- ewski at the side of the stage, but in response to the calls he slipped out of the coat and sat again at the piano to play until 7 o’clock. . His program was all Chopin and his music was simply wonderful; something we shall never forget. Sometimes loud and full of fervor and again so sweet and soulful as to fair- ly transport one. I especially enjoy- ed those parts with which I am famil- jar. The sonata that contains the funeral march as its largo and then the five of the “Revolutionary Etude” and the “Polinnaise in Major,” was played as only a great artist can. Before the concert began two Amer- ican Legion boys marched down the aisle bearing our flag and that of Po- land. After planting them at either side of the stage they stood at atten- tion until the great artist entered and was seated, while the audience arose en masse. It repeated this com- pliment at the conclusion of the first | half of the program when a huge wreath of yellow chrysanthemums, much higher than the piano was pre- sented him by the American Legion. This was the fourth benefit concert given by M. Paderewski for our sol- diers-and he has promised- to-give -an-. other during his present American tour. We can’t help but admire him when we think of what he did for his own country and what he is now doing for our disabled soldiers. Mr. Schmidt and I saw him in Pittsburg thirty years ago and though 70 now he seem- ed as vigorous and played even better than then. We are well and having a good time, though it is quite cold here, with high winds and the thermometer at 11 degrees above zero. We wish all of our Centre county friends a very Happy New Year. MRS. A. M. SCHMIDT. MUST KEEP ROADS OPEN. Harrisburg—The snow removal or- der for the State highways during the coming winter, was issued to the sev- eral divisions and district engineers, by W. J. Connell and is the most ex- tensive snow removal program ever undertaken by an American State. The activities of the department will mean that 5,200 miles of improv- ed State highways wlll be kept open for traffic at all times. Under the plan as outlined in the letter sent out by Mr. Connell a night watchman will be maintained at all of the storage sheds and telephones must be installed in the buildings. When it looks as though a snow storm will break, the night watchman must call the superintendent and they together will confer on the advisabil- ity of calling out the workmen, When snow has fallen to a depth of two Inches all of the workmen will be called and continue to work until the storm has subsided. In cases of emergency or when the snow fall is un- usual, the Harrisburg offices will be notified and every available means to keep the roads open will be made. The order calls for immediate open- ing of the drains and ditches along the road so that in event of rain follow- ing the snow, the roads will not be flooded. The determination, which the road department of the State Highways Department will try to keep the main thoroughfares in the States open for traffic during the winter is best ex- plained by Mr. Connell’s letter: “We will expect that each one will do his part, and that there will be no excuses for not keeping the roads open for travel at all times.” The Toll of War. Only one general officer was killed in the World war. He was Brig-Gen. Sigerfees of the infantry. In fact, the infantry lost more offi- cers than any other single arm of ser- vice. Final figures recently compiled by the war department show that of the 2285 officers of the American army killed in action or died from wounds 1756 were in the infantry. The air service came next with 175 deaths and the field artillery third with 103 killed. First lieutenants comprised the grade that suffered the most. This was due to the fact that they usually lead an advance. Their death roll was 999. However, 958 second lieutenants also lost their lives.—Exchange. | Cossacks Refuse to Violate Old Tombs The similarity of the burial mounds in Siberia, north of the Gobi, with those several thousand miles distant on the Black gea, seems to indicate that they were built by the Mongols— perhaps in the age of Genghis Khan, perhaps in the day of Tamerlane (as we call Timur-i-lang). Perhaps in the time of the khanates of central Asia— the Golden Horde, etc.—in the Six- teenth century. No one knows for certain, There are also found in the steppes curious stone warriors and women that face always to the east. And I think the figure monuments of Siberia are very much like them. The Cossacks relate that when these stone women are carried away, to make gate posts for a house in some Russian village, it takes a half-dozen oxen to drag them to the west, although one can draw them back again. Moi, je me sais— At any rate most of the Cossacks are extremely unwilling to dig up the burial sites, the kurgans. A hundred years ago the British explorer, Clarke, asked the hetman of the Don Cossacks for some men from the village to help him the next day. The men were ready enough until they found out that he wanted to uncover a near-by kurgan. They refused point blank— said it was unthinkably unlurky—and Clarke did not get a look at the inside of the mound.—Harold Lamb in Ad- venture Magazine. Genius Not Immune to Domestic Trouble It may be some consolation for those who have a servant girl problem to read the following reference to similar troubles in the life of a great mar It is hard to believe that Beethoven, g0 much of whose life must have been spent in communion with the marvel- ous vision of his genius, was constant- ly Immersed also in petty details of housekeeping. In his diaries and let- ters are numerous references to them. His servants, from his own account, were nearly always incompetent, for he describes at length their neglect of him. And one passage in a diary is devoted to entries concerning kitchen maids, one of whom “ran away,” and another of whom he writes—‘gave the kitchen maid warning”—though that is satisfactory to see by the next en- try that “The new maid came.” In the intervals of these distresses Beethoven wrote the Choral Symphony, and the great Mass in D! Oxygen on Mars That the amount of oxygen on Mars | is relatively very low has been shown by a spectroscope fixed on the Mount | Wilson telescope. It is only 60 per cent as great as the oxygen supply on | YE Pp'y | were decidedly lively. They decided |! | | Mount “Everest; where exploring —ex- peditions have had to resort to the use | of oxygen tanks In order to keep alive. Though deficient in water and ox- | ygen, there is no doubt that Mars still | possesses an atmosphere. E. C. Slip- her of the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., showed that photo- graphs made with red light filters made the planet appear larger and showed greater detail than those made with blue light filters. Red light is known to have greater powers of pene- tration through the atmosphere than blue; so that the photographs would tend to indicate the presence of an at- mosphere on Mars. Of Phoenician Origin? Melungeons are a distinct race of people living in the mountains of east- ern Tennessee. They are about the color of mulattoes, but have straight hair. They are supposed to be de- scendants of some ancient Phoenicians, who removed from Carthage and set- tled in Morocco. They have no ad- mixture of negro blood. From Morgc- co, a colony crossed the Atlantic and settled in South Carolina. From that locality they moved to Hancock coun- ty, Tenn, The Melungeons are to a considerable extent illiterate, and are for the most part engaged in farm- ing.—Washington Star. Brain Méasure Won’t Work A doctor friend tells us there is noth. ing to the scheme to measure the brains of congressmen to find out how much they know, that the most bril- linnt senator New York ever had had a very small head. . . . When it comes to brain power it is quality, not quantity, that counts. In the labora- tory of a great medical school is the brain of a world-famous genius, so small that it is little more than half the weight of the average human brain.—Capper's Weekly. Lightning in Forests When lightning strikes a tree the ordinary result is to splinter the wood or strip off bark through the sudden generation of steam, says Nature Magazine. In the great majority of cases the tree 1s not set on fire. Never theless, the aggregate number of for est fires started by lightning is in many parts of the country, greater than the number due to all other causes combined. Smart After All A young boy who lived next door to a certain Indianapolis lawyer did not have a high opinion of the mentality of the lawyer. His parents, however, were not aware of their son's opinions until one day, when he came in and sald: “Well, I guess Mr. Blank is smart after all. He took his automobile apart and p<c* 't back together, and ** runs.” South American Gold in Solomon’s Temple? Ophir, land of rich gold mines that supplied metal for the decorations of King Solomon’s temple, was in South America, according to Dr. Van Hauch of Vienna who has been exploring the forests of Peru. The fabled country has been the subject of speculation for years, and has been variously lo- cated in Arabia, India or South Africa, says a writer in Popular Mechanics Magazine. In support of his theory the Vienna explorer declares that he found an Indian tribe of 300 whose features bore a Jewish cast and whose lan- guage contained many words like those of the ancient Hebrew. The name Solomon had been given to a number of men in the tribe, and legends were told him of a race of seafaring men who landed on the banks of the river Hualla and carried away quantities of gold ore. They called the region around the river Ophira. Dr. Von Hauch be- lieves that the strangers may have been King Solomon’s sailors, and that the three years’ absence of his fleet mentioned in Biblical accounts is ex- plained by the long journey to Peru. Columbus believed that he had found the source of Solomon’s riches when he set’ foot on the West Indies. The African theory is based on the dis- covery of ancient mines among ruins south of the Zambesi river, and a Seventeenth century writing to the effect that one was the Abyssinian mine from which the queen of Sheba obtained most of the gold she gave King Solomon. | | | Masterpieces Lost to | World Through Flames | The world is very much poorer today | because so much classical literature | of the early centuries has been Inst | Aeschylus is said to have written ! from 70 to 90 dramas, but only seven, | in a complete state, have been handed | down to us. Only seven, too, of the | 120 tragedies written by Sophocles are | known, with, perhaps, 100 fragments i of the others. Of the dramatic works of Euripides, which are said to have totaled 92, only 17 tragedies and a play, dealing with satyrs, also a few fragments of the other compositions, now remain. These losses, also of Greek lyrical works, are due to the de- struction by fire of the two great li- braries of Alexandria in 47 B. C. { when the city was besiged by Julius Caesar. In this fire 700,000 volumes were destroyed. Coffee’s “Discovery” There are many stories as to who . first discovered the food value of i coffee. In Europe this important dis- . covery is usually accredited to the inmates of an old monastery in Arabia who had observed that their goats after browsing upon the coffee berries i to taste the berries to see if they, too, i would be similarly affected. First | they chewed the berries but were dis- Then they i boiled them but without success. Then ‘ they tried roasting them and found this gave a delightful flavor. Later a monk brewed a stimulating drink by pounding the roasted berries in a mortar. ! appointed in the taste. Sugar From Dahlias A new dahlia and artichoke indus . try promises new life for domestic | sugar manufacturers, according to Sci- ence. At present huge beet-sugar | plants are lying idle two-thirds of the year for lack of raw material. It iis now expected that after producing beet sugar in the summer the plants will run four months on artichoke, fol- lowed by four months on dahlia tubers | to produce large quantities of the new levulose sugar. At present levulose is prepared only as a sirup or moist, powder-like brown sugar, but the prob- lems of crystallization are rapidly be- Ing solved commercially. Modesty The parents had been trying for some time to impress a sense of modesty on four-year-old Betty. The following incident caused them to feel pa their efforts had not been wholly n vain, Betty was seated on the floor, play- ing with “dress up” paper dolls, when her grownup cousin breezed in. She started toward the child and was pre- pared to exclaim over the dolls, when she was halted by a frown of disap- proval. “Don’t look,” scolded the youngster. “Can’t you see they're dressing?” In Airtight Bags Observations were made at the Na- tional Academy of Sciences in Wash- ington recently on five subjects (three men and two women) placed in an air- tight bag through which a stream of heated, dry air (about 85 degrees centi- grade) was passed. Loss of weight was five to thirteen times greater than normal, oxygen consumption increased slightly, while skin temperature was fairly uniform and only one degree or so above normal, owing to the cool- ing effect of perspiration. Bran Valuable Food Bran, the dark, fibrous portion of wheat, is less completely digested than the rest of the kernel. As bran is sold commercially it has some food value from the starch as well as from the minerals and vitamins associated with the fibrous parts, but it is used chiefly for its laxative properties. In moderates quantities, and especially as it comes ground up in graham flour, it is usually considered to be a des sirable addition to the diet. Litile Is Urderstood ‘ of Insect Migration There is, of course, a great deal that we do not know. In the final analysis, “all things go out into mystery,” and your most dry-as-dust professor is left at the ceunter of his laboratory with his mouth open and his short-sighted eyes raised in a childish query. Still, he has detected law and order and reasonableness, and the succession of cause and effect in many branches of biology, including bird migration. It is not so with insect migration, which may be on a big scale. This re- mains a thorough-going miracle, still quite unplumbed. In England we en- tertain quite a considerable number of butterflies from overseas, though their arrival or passage over the sea Is rarely observed. But such little flights of a hundred miles or so are as noth- ing compared with some recent ex- amples. Butterflies will fly 3,000 miles on oc- casion. That lovely creature—not so common here as we could wish—the painted lady, has appeared in Ice- lané-at the end of a journey—so it is credibly alleged—from Africa! Quite large groups of white butter- flies have settled on ships in the Medi- terranean, on their way from south to north. So Africa certainly exchanges Insects with Europe.—Sir W. Beach Thomas in the Outlook. Railroads Can Dispute Claims to Precedence There probably will be all sorts of rivalries and disputes in the near fu- ture over the question of precedence among American railroads, just as there were a few years ago over the date and identity of the first steam- boat. It seems not unlikely that the honor will have to be divided and dis- tributed according to the interpreta- tion of the term. The first road on which vehicles ran on rails was per- haps that on Beacon hill, in Boston, in 1807. The first road to employ steam power seems to have been the 27-mile stretch bullt by the Delaware & Hud- son Canal company {in 1827 from Honesdale to Carbondale, Pa. The first road to carry passengers was probably the Baltimore & Ohio, which in May, 1830, began running from Bal- time to Ellicott’s mill, 15 miles, by horse power. Famous Obelisk The obelisk in Central park, New York, is thirty-five centuries old. As the Standard Guide to New York re- marks: “It was old when Moses read its inscriptions in honor of the Egyp- tian sun god.” It stood before the temple of the Sun at Heliopolis, near Cairo, where It was erected in the Sixteenth century B. C. by Thothmes ITI. In twelve B. C. Augustus Caesar carried the obelisk to Alexandria. Here it and two others were erected before the temple of the Caesars. In 1877 it was presented by the khedive of Egypt to the United States, and brought to America by Lieutenant- Commander Gorringe, U. 8. N. It was erected in Central park in 1881, Wil- liam H. Vanderbilt bore the expense of removal, which was $102,576. The obelisk is a monolite of syenite from the granite quarries of Syene, Egypt. The shaft is 691% feet high, 7 feet 9 inches by 7 feet 83% inches at the base and weighs 448,000 pounds. Wild Pigeons All Gone Vast numbers of wild pigeons were seen In this country prior to 1865, though not in such great numbers as earlier in the century, namely, 1800 to 1850. The slaughter of these pigeons raged for years with nets, traps and guns, and by 1884 there were very few of the wild pigeons seen in this coun- try. By 1900 they had dwindled down to a few specimens left in captivity in Milwaukee and in the Cincinnati z00. Martha, the last known wild pigeon, died 2 pa August 20, 1914, at the age of twenty-nine. According to all ornithological data available, she was the last of her tribe in the world. Martha's mate died in 1910, and though a prize of $1,000 was of- fered for a mate, none was ever found. Nothing to Worry About To hear some young women talk c¢hey would be very choosey in select- ing a husband. When it comes to domestic ability, men are not so fin- nicky, if we may believe this para- graph from Judge: The ceremony over, the wife began to weep copiously. “What's the matter?” asked the new husband. “I—I never told you that I dox’t know how to cook,” sobbed the bride. “Don’t fret,” said he, “I'll not have anything to cook. I'm an edi- tor.”"—Capper's Weekly. Indian Summer There are no definite dates for In- dian summer, which fs a period of warm or mild weather late in au- tumn or in early winter, usually char- acterized by a clear, cloudless sky, and by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere, especially near the hori- zon. The term is commonly applied to such period occurring in October or more commonly in November, after a definite frost. Meteoric Visitors It 1s computed that between 10,000, 000 and 20,000,000 strike the earth’s atmosphere dally. Two or three mete- orites are seen to fall yearly. Since a large part of the earth is covered with . water or uninhabited, it is thought probable that about 100 strike the earth annually. It is not known positively that meteors and meteorites are composed of the same materials Tests Prove Heat Lowers Pupils Ability to Work. Erivan.—Science has come to the aid of the man who does not want to work in hot weather. Experiments carried out by the Near East Relief among 15,000 children in its orphan- age school and workshops here prove that mental and physical efficiency are seriously lowered when temperature rises above 73 degrees. The experiments covered summer temperatures ranging from 65 de- grees to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Max- imum efficiency in classroom or work- shop is secured under temperatures of 67 to 73 degrees. The human ma- chine’s ability to work effectively de- creases rapidly as the temperature rises above 73. At a temperature of 90 degrees the number of mistakes increases by 62 per cent. CHICHESTER S PILLS Ladies! Ask you Drugglst for, D yl Ay yD 1 Pills in Red and Take other. B uO of no uu ND "Ask for OINT-OIESTER 8. Merry Christmas We take pleasure in announcing that enrollment in our 1926 Christmas Savings Club Began Tuesday December 1, 1925 You will be sure to have money for Christinas if you Join one or more of these Classes. Class 25 Class 50 will receive will receive Class 25—Members paying 25 cents a week for fifty weeks Class 50—Members paying 50 cents a week for fifty weeks $12.50 $25.00 Class 100 will receive. io Class 100—Members paying $1.00 a week for fifty weeks $50.00 Class 200 Class500 will receive will receive Class 200—Members paying $2.00 a week for fifty weeks Class S00 Members paying $5.00 a week for fifty weeks $100.00 $250.00 Class 1000 Class 2000 will receive weeks will receive with three per cent. interest added if all payments are made regularly in advance. Bellefonte Trust Company BELLEFONTE, PA. 70-48-tf Class 1000—Members paying $10.00 a week for fifty weeks Class 2000—Members paying $20.00 a week for fifty $500.00 $1,000.00 Lyon & Co. h h i The Greatest Slaughter of Prices Ever Heard of During the Month of January Ladies and Childrens Winter Coats Must be Sacrificed Regardless of Cost. One Rack of Ladies Dresses —Point Twills, Flannels, Satin Back, Canton, Crepe de Chene and Satins—at less than cost of manufacture. Lyon & Co. Pre--[nventory Sale Throughout (ne Store We Invite Inspection of Prices and Qualities Save Money....Buyy Here Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
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