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PLEASANT GAP.
George Cabers is driving a new Star
sedan.
Rev. McKechnie has been laid up
with the grip. i
Roy Bell had a radio installed in his
home recently.
Mrs. William Rossman visited last
week in Milton.
Mrs. Nellie Gheen is visiting this
week in Sunbury.
Harry Bilger installed a new radio
in his home recently.
Mrs. A. M. Kerstetter is visiting
with her daughter in Linesville.
A kind word may fall like drops of
rain upon the drooping flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter are rejoicing
over the arrival of a young son.
Frank Millward was discharged
from the hospital last Saturday.
Mrs. Jack Noll attended the C. D.
of A. card party on Friday evening.
* Mrs. Lyons, of Bellefonte, is spend-
ing some time with Mrs. W. D. Her-
man.
Miss Helen Noll entertained a num-
ber of her friends at a 500 party last
Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Lowman have
returned from a two weeks visit with
friends at Berwick.
Mrs. McKechnie had a scovere at-
tack of neuralgia the past week, but
we are glad to announce that she is
gradually recovering.
A kind word, an obliging act, even
if it be a trifling one, has a power su-
perior to the harp of David in calm-
ing the billiows of the soul.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Noll and Mrs.
Fred Clemens were visitors in Belle-
fonts on Tuesday; taking in the town
and having a most enjoyable time.
I am convinced that there never yet
was an instance in which kindness has
been fairly exercised, but that it has
subdued the enmity opposed to it.
Our school board left for Harris-
burg on Tuesday to consult with the
State officials, with a view of fixing up
the location of our new school build-
ing. om
Mr. and Mrs. David Crum, of Lines-
ville, are rejoicing over the arrival of
a young daughter. Mrs. Crum was
formerly Miss Tamazine Xerstetter
before her marriage.
Miss Bess Eckenroth continues
quite ill. She has a trifle of over $3,000
tied up in the Centre County bank
mix-up, but now since there is a pros-
. pect of an early settlement she may
recuperate.
Nothing is more valuable and so
easily purchased as good nature. A
man with a pleasant disposition finds
friends every-where, and makes
friends when people of a contrary
nature see only enemies.
Rev. Rishell held revival services
the past week at the M. E. church.
Seekers for the better have not up to
this time been in evidence. In:the
language of Billy Sunday, “those who
don’t want to go to Heaven will have
to go to Hades.”
Mrs. John Herman, Miss Edith and
the son-in-law, the Rimmey family,
motored to Lewistown on Sunday and
spent the day with the Harry Grove
family. Mrs. Herman and Miss Edith
will spend the balance of the week at
Lewistown, returning home on Sunday
next.
Men think very little of the value
of a bow, or a smile, or friendly salu-
tation, yet how small the cost, how
great the return. By a few soft words
and a pleasant look, enemies have
been made friends, and old attach-
ments renewed that had been annulled
for years. A smile beams upon the
lover’s heart like a ray of sunshine in
the depths of the forest.
We had 18 inches of snow the past
week but the same is gradually pass-
ing away, so that we have experienced
no inconvenience. The fall was surely
beneficial to all kinds of grain. Our
sportsmen, true to their nature, have
given considerable attention towards
providing for the sustenance of the
small game. All seem to think that
the indications are that we will have
an early spring. It is to be hoped
‘they are correct.
Pleasant Gap has been fortunate the
past week. Our former barber left us
with a view of locating at State Col-
lege. The Noll Bros. refitted their
cozy little shop in first class order in
every detail. Mr. J. H. Halstead, a
practical barber of Cleveland, Ohio,
called to inspect the premises, resuit-
ing in his renting the same, since
which time the shop has been very
busy up to 11 p.m. Everybody here is
delighted, and a bright fufure awaits
the new comer. And the beauty of all
is the barber's wife is also a practical
barber in every detail. She is quite
proficient in marcel work, besides
being up-to-date on the most fastidous
hair bob accessions. Yes, we are again
in our glory.
RUNVILLE.
Mrs. Leona Osewalt and daughter,
of Snow Shoe, visited at Mrs. Jacob
Shirk’s on Friday.
Miss Catherine Rowe and Miss Iva
Lucas, of Bellefonte, were Sunday
visitors at the John Lucas home.
Miss Lulu McClincy went to Wil-
liamsport, on Friday, to visit with her
brother, James McCliney and wife.
Mr. and Mrs Ford Walker, of
Milesburg, called at the L. J. Heaton
and Earl Kauffman homes on Sunday.
The stork has been busy in our
town the past week, making three
visits. At Earl Kauffman’s he left a
young son; at Fred Witherite’s
young son and Claude Confer’s a
Jeughter. They are all getting along
fine.
Disagree as to Just
When Man Should Wed
One of those sweet journalists who
gives advice to the lovelorn propounds
the query, “What is the best age for
a man to marry?” And then, of course,
she answers it, and quotes a
noted physiologist in support of her |
contention. Young men should marry
at the age of twenty-five. Prior to that
birthday they should resolutely resist
the blandishments and artifices of the
fairest charmer, but once the magic
boundary is passed they need have no
fears, They are ripe for the ma=
riage vows.
Married men will venture to disagree
with this feminine authority. Since all
of them are married, more or less, it
follows that most of them have de-
cided opinions on when a young man
ought to abandon bachelorhood and
assume the marital responsibility, to-
gether with the furniture contract. If
you put the question to them, how-
ever, you would be certain to find a
wide diversity of views about the spe
cific age for the venture.
They would agree on this much, we
think, fitting the test to each indi-
vidual: The young man should marry
when he is quite sure he can fee the
minister without cheating the landlord.
He should marry when he is resigned
to the exchange of gentle bonds of
home. He should marry when he is
confident that beating carpets and
mowing lawns will not mar the perfec-
tion of his dream. And above all, he
shouldn't get married for a joke. If
he does he is almost certain to find
that the joke is on him.—Portland
Oregonian.
Law of Treasure Trove
Near Chichester, England, recently
the ancient law of treasure trove was
called in a legal case. A governess,
walking along Selsey beach, had
found an armlet half buried in the
sand—a worthless old ornament, she
thought, of no interest or value. But
Investigation by her employer re-
vealed that the armlet was of pure
gold, and subsequent examination by
scientists proved that it was British
In workmanship and probably 2,000
years old—a rare relic of the pre-
Roman period in the British isles.
No one knew what legal disposition
of the armlet was to be made, until
attorney for the British museum
proved that under the old treasure
trove law it must be turned over to
the government, the government how-
ever, being obliged to pay the finder
80 per cent of its value. But its
value, sald the scientists, was incal-
culable, After an interesting court
case a jury of Chicester farmers
awarded the girl £20 (about $100)
and the British museum took the
Jewel.
The Patriot
Gen. ‘€Charles“P. Summerall told a
story about patriotism at a Washing-
ton reception.
“As soon as America entered the
World war,” he said, “a chap named
Jethro Barker decided to volunteer. He
was on. fire. with a patriotic wish to |
serve his country. So he applied at a
recruiting office and was duly thumped
and prodded, trotted up and down and
jumped over chairs and tables.
“Then came question time. All sorts
of questions were put to him, and his
answers were very satisfactory. But
the final question staggered him.
“‘Have you ever served a jail sen-
cence?
“No, gentlemen, I must confess i
naven't’ he answered, but he added
with a gulp, ‘I'd be willing to serve a
short one if it’s necessary.’”
The Diver’s Telephone
James F. O'Malley, famous diver,
said to a New York reporter the other
day:
“I had a funny experience with an
old lady visitor. I was down on the
sea bottom at the time, and she asked
the men if she could talk to me over
our sea telephone. They sald she
could, and so- this was the talk we
had:
“ ‘Hello, diver!
“ ‘Hello, ma'am.’
“ ‘What are you doing down there?
“ ‘Just now I'm sitting down having
a rest.’
“‘Good graclous!
sitting on?
“‘On some rocks.
“ ‘Oh, diver! Surely you're not sit-
cing on those damp rocks! Do you
want to catch your death?”
What are you
Old Mills Electrified
The sentimental battle waged by old
cesidents of Holland to have their his-
toric windmills preserved, because
modern machinery was making such
inroads, has won out. A number of
old mills in Holland, instead of being
torn down and replaced by modern
machinery, will be retained in their
present appearance, but electrified so
that they may be made more efficient.
The promoters of the electrification
project gave in to the petitioners when
it was brought to their attention that
the windmills were beautiful relics of
old Holland.
The Inspired Compositor
Professor Phelps tells the Boston
Lfranscript that when he was a boy he
set type on a religious journal. One
day, in the column “Ministers and
Churches,” there appeared in the proof
“Lillian Russell will wear tights this
winter.” How it got there no one
knew. The editor crossed out the
line and wrote “such is life!” on the
margin. When the paper appeared it
contained among the news of the
rlergy, the item about Miss Russell,
followed by the editorial comment
“such is life!”
| sycamore;
Ancient Eastern City
Stands for Desolation
With the annexation of Transjor-
dania of the Hedjaz districts of Maan
and Akaba, one of the strangest cities
in existence comes under British man-
date. This is the wonderful pink city
of Petra.
In ancient times this flourishing cen-
ter of eastern splendor stood near the
point of intersection of the great cara-
van routes from Palmyra, Gaza, Egypt
and the Persian gulf, four days’ jour-
ney from the Mediterranean and five
from the Red sea. Now it is miles
from nowhere and can only be reached
on horseback with a strong armed es
cort.
The city is entered down a dark
and narrow gorge, in places only ten
feet wide, which is nothing more than
a great split in the huge sandstone
rocks. It is like wandering along
some mysterious passage to Aladdin’s
cave, until the pass suddenly ends in
a mass of temples, tombs and theaters
of exquisite architecture.
There, right out in the “blue” and
in the wildest aspect of nature, is a
treasure house of the most delicate
masterpieces of Greece and Rome.
Perfect columns with Corinthian cap-
itals, support the richly carved roofs.
Facades and doorwiys of exquisite de-
sign stand desolate in the wilderness.
The architecture of kings is used to
provide shelter for a few wandering
Bedouins.
But the most astonishing thing of
all is that these tombs and temples
were actually hewn out of the solid
rock, which has the most peculiar
deep pink coloring.
ing built up like ordinary buildings,
they were hewn downwards from the
ground level. Almost completely sur-
rounding the city are rose-colored
mountain walls, divided into groups by
great gaping cracks and lined with
rock-cut tombs in the form of towers.
—E. W. Polson Newman, in the Lop
don Mail.
Thames Has Double Ebb
It Is a rare thing that an interesting
happening entirely escapes the eye of
the press, but recently such an event
was unrecorded: London river, the
river of the empire, enjoyed a double
ebb and flow of its tide and no one
said a word about it. Such a mani-
festation is certainly a curious one
and not always explainable. But be-
fore the Thames was embanked, its
vagaries in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth centuries were pretty fre-
quent, for in 1658.it ebbed and flowed
twice in three hours, and in 1662
three times in four hours—a sergeant
major’s allowance which has never
been surpassed. And some old chron-
icler has left an account of the quite
unprecedented freakishness of London
river one winter day in 1641, “a won-
der,” he confesses, “that, all things
considered, the oldest man never saw
or heard the like.” — Manchester
Guardian.
Barrie Publicity Expert
By making his shyness a legend,
Sir: James: Barrie has become one of
the world's greatest . publicity ex-
perts. Last year he made page one
fn most of the newspapers in Eng-
land by demanding that his name,
blazing in electric lights on Piccadilly,
be removed from the signs advertis-
ing “Peter Pan” This year he fis
engaging in a law suit to prevent
presentation of his first play. It is
called “Walker, London,” and accord-
ing to Barrie, is a jejune and imma-
ture work he wants permanently
buried. But the copyright has run
out and an enterprising firm of young
men promises to bring out “Walker,
London” as a musical comedy. Barrie
has sought an injunction.
Beaten
The French foreign minister, M.
Briand, tells an excellent story of how
a friend with a somewhat vitriolic wit
scored over a political opponent.
The opponent was criticizing in the
chamber of deputies a bill brought in
by Briand’s friend. :
“When,” he declared, “I first read
the text of the ridiculous and impos-
sible measure I thought I was becom-
ing mad.”
“Becoming!” interjected the wit
“Becoming indeed! How fond the
honorable member is of adding un-
necessary words.”
Reimbursed in Will
When Carrie Safford of Reading,
Pa., had her will drawn she included
a bequest of $10 to her niece, Mary
Pousland of Portland, ®laine, to pay
for some dishes broken when she
tripped and fell while helping with the
housework while there on a visit.
The niece would not allow her to pay
for the dishes at the time, so the pay-
ment was made as a provision in her
will.—Ohio State Journal.
All Alike
Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, was
calking about certain Greenwich vil-
lage Utopians.
“They despise money,” he said, “and
at the same time they're dreadful bor-
rowers.”
Mr. Dreiser shrugged his shoulders.
“All Utopians,” he ended, “are I-O-
J-topians, I imagine.”
First to Make Fiddles
Iradition has it that King Ravanon
of Ceylon was first of which there is
any record to start the fiddle business.
He is said to have invented the ravan-
| astron, 5,000 years ago, a cylinder of |
open on: one side across :
i which strings were drawn taut. The
:nstrument was played with a bamboo
bow.—Grit.
Instead of be- |
RIGHT?
The great word of impression that
the English visitor takes away from
a study of American universities is
“organization.” It comes into his
constant vocabulary very early. The
idle, easy ways of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, boasting that the greater part
of the benefits that they bestow come
from interminable and spontaneous
conversations round the fire—these
are the things most clearly lacking
in the American university. The foot-
ball player is almost a pawn in the
hands of his coach. The debater often
has the words of his speech written
for him by a professor. Classes are
compulsory. Every breath that the
student takes is the university’s busi-
ness, and he must breathe it at an ap-
propriate and scheduled time.
In the excess of organization some-
thing is lost, although something is
also gained. But it is perhaps the
Englishman to discover the loss much
sooner than he discovers the reason
for it. The reason for it,of course, is
partly in the American. In America
the conversationalist is very rare. The
American does not take to the French-
man’s quick throwing to and fro of
a conversational ball. He prefers tak-
ing turns at monologue. And he loves
organization. The organization ot
his social life, the number of his club
luncheons, is the wonder of the world.
Still, for this organization in the
universities there is a more special
reason. Here, as in so many other
things, America has undertaken a task
quite different from any that the
world has ever before seen. The
European or English university has
been able to leave the student much
freedom to learn as he chooses simply
i because it has made no attempt to
cater for the student who does not
choose to learn at all. The European
university has always been an asylum
| for the oddity with a kink for intel-
|lectual interests, a refuge for the
{ minority. America, the first to do SO,
has tried to give a college education
to everybody. The experiment has
demanded the price.
I have heard Americans argue that
she has by so doing stultified the very
purpose of higher education and sacri-
ficed ability to mass mediocrity. Be
that as it may—and there Ts much to
be said on both sides—it is evident
that it makes education's problem
very different. For not only has it
brought a volume of students to the
university, for parallel to which we
have to go back to Europe before the
Reformation, but—and here the com-
parison with the mediaevals breaks
down—the great majority of them
cannot love learning for its own sake.
For the taste is rare. The eritic who
criticisms answered. Organization?
Yes. But what sort of people are you
organizing ?
But here is a question that will not
down: Granted that organized ath-
letics, the fraternity system, the
amassing of credits, are wise policies
with which to meet the problem of the
indifferent numbers, are you not
sacrificing to them the genuine love
of learning. And is not a system
of education which does such a thing
a very parody ?
Nothing is more foolish than an af-
fected eccentricity of superiority. An
intellectual who cannot take an or-
dinary place in the life of ordinary
world the ordinary world can well af-
ford to spare. This self-differentia-
tion is the quality one finds in the
third-rate; always in a Marie Corelli,
and never in Shakespeare. And yet
is there not a danger? Is the con-
versation of a fraternity house meal
table good enough intellectual chew-
ing-ground for the Oliver Wendell
Holmes of the future?
Is it not the whole philosophy of
loyalty to a fraternity a great fraud?
I shall never forget the sight of a
man of sixty dining with his old
fraternity and singing with them—
Delta Tau Delta,
My home and shelter.
To what was this loyalty? The mem-
bers, the very building, had changed.
There is no way of life of Delta Tau
Delta different from that of all the
rest of the world. How can a man
serve three Greek letters? What re-
sult does the attempt bring but ter-
rible and crushing sameness, man to
man, fraternity to fraternity? It is
just the wrong size; that is the frat-
ernity’s great vice. It is too small to
be a permanent and enduring society,
too large to be a body of boon com-
panions. And this is a vice that it
shares with many instruments of
American sociability.
How necessary is this fear that
the individual is being destroyed. It
is, of course, obvious that no general-
ization about America can be at best
more than half a truth. But if the
Middle West, as it sometimes tells
the traveler, is America, then the fear
is necessary. For the Middle West
certainly hates individuality. But
America, I think, like a wise shop-
keeper, displays its best goods in its
windows, on its east and west coasts.
Why is it that people are best educat-
ed when they live by the sea? The
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to the west coast to find their equal?
Why, if Iowa or Utah have not for-
gotten their pioneer days, has Cali-
fornia left them so far behind in ed-
ucation as in other things?
often told that it is because the sea
brings it into contact with other cul-
tures and saves it from isolation of
the Middle West.
tion is surely too facile. I do not be-
lieve that the excellence of Stanford
is entirely due to the fact that the
students go down from Palo Alto to
watch the steamers coming into San
Francisco.
explanation, if it is not in natural
virtue, is in the climate—the climate
of California, which has forced the
people, perhaps unwillingly, perhaps
unadmittingly, into leisure.
leisurely life is the greatest need of
the American university of to-day.
By far the greatest vice of American
education is that there is much too
much of it.
educated in a hurry. Long evenings,
the Socratic threshing out of subjects
until boredom, talk, talk, freedom;
all is education, and not text-books
and credits.
whether the Eighteenth Amendment
has prohibited it.—M. C. Hollis in The
Outlook. 3
of the old stock company days.
ing his company on tae cheap. They
traveled from town to town in freight
cars at freight rates.
cion one Sunday morning, and the
junction boss came out and bawled
to the conductor of the freight:
sawled back.
ais head out of a cattle car and
thundered :
yut the actors first.” ”
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don’t want to go om your
Bond. I will.
H. E. FENLON
Bel) 174-M Temple Court
Commercial] BELLEFONTE, PA.
56-21 ,