1 GUATEMALA ADOPTS Deworaic Walco Bellefonte, Pa., March 5, 1926. Swedenborg Had Few Equals in Versatility The annual Swedenborgian comvin- tion in Cincinnati a few weeks age recalls the man from which this small est of sects derived its name, Fir manuel Swedenborg of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, statesman, inventor, says Time. Da Vinci himself could not look down on him; Franklin's achieve- ments cover a narrower range. There was "seemingly nothing he could not do, nothing he did not do, in the early 1700s. Did the lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII of Sweden with dis- aster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuei Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for women? They applied to Sweden- borg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished one. He produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden In its currency policy, dealt with the bal- ance of trade and the liquor laws, an- cestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine. But with all this done and learned, life still lay flat and unpalatable on Swedenborg’s tongue. He sought, like Paracelsus, the infinite and the spir- itual; and neither geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles led him to them. But they must be found. And so to work on a new path. Then, in 1745, “heaven was opened to him by direct spiritual rev- elation from God.” Cheap Lunches for Girls in almost every parish in Paris— some of them housed in separate quarters, some attached to the clinics and creches maintained by the church, there has been established a “L'Oeuvre Diocesaine,” or restaurant, for working girls who find the ordi- nary restaurants too expensive. The average pay of midinettes, many of whom carry their lunches in small compact leather boxes, is microscopi- cally small, judged by American standards. But many of the girls find lunch boxes an inconvenience and in answer to their need “L’Oeuvre | Diocesaine” has been -inaugurated. The girls can have soup, hors d’oeuvre, a meat course, vegetables, dessert and wine for about 8 cents. They can or- der less if they like, and if they do not wish to spend so small an amount, or cannot afford to do so, they may bring their own food and make use of the kitchen. The New Man It is true that man is gradually be- ing forced to take up the domestic arts, affirms the Wilmington Every Evening. It blames it all on women’s efforts to enter the masculine realm. “He is forced to attend to the babies,” says the paper, “wash dishes and ‘dust the living room’—and, if needs be, wear a gingham apron—while madam is playing bridge or attending a lec-. ture on the subject of ‘Wives and Mothers.’ The natural consequence is that the poor man, saturated by an atmosphere of domesticity, takes on an effeminate air before he realizes it. He finds himself walking in a woman- ish manner and answering the door- bell with a toss of the head and a gesture of the hands that reminds one of Maud Muller.” First Baltimore Monument The first monument erectéd in Bal- timore was in memory of Christopher Columbus, and was dedicated October 12, 1792. It stands on the grounds of the Ready asylum on North avenue. Productive Ice Machine Los Angeles boasts of the largest electrically driven ice machine in the world. It has a daily capacity of 700 tons and is operated by an electric motor of 800 horsepower. Dishonest Bail Straw bail signifies bail offered by persons not possessing the necessary property qualifications, but willing to swear they do possess them. One Explanation Our troubles come often from this: We do not live according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of our neighbors.—Exchange. Irreligious? Why say I'm irreligious? I'm afraid of the church, a preacher and God, and that’s as religious as anyone is. —HE. W. Howe's Monthly. Kept His Dogs Busy In eight years a Canadian trapper named Luke Cartledge has traveled 35,000 miles by dog-sled. Until Time’s End The question of the hour is, “What time is it?”’—Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay. Healthy Appetite An alligator weighing 1,000 pounds consumes 40 pounds of meat dally. ‘large part of the chicle that goes into will not even live if kept in captivity. cestors, a more or less sacred symbol QUETZAL, NEW COIN Turns From Paper Money to Silver Coin. Washington.—A new coin has made its appearance in the money-changing marts of the world. It is called the quetzal, and is the silver standard of Guatemala, After 28 years of a paper money regime the Central American republic is now issuing silver money. to be followed shortly by gold coins, and smaller fractional ones of copper. “A step forward in finance is in keeping with other developments of this most populous, and perhaps most richly endowed, of all the Central American countries,” says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. “Guatemala possesses the largest rail- road mileage of any country between Mexico and South America, and, al- though figures vary from time to time, the value of its exports, well up in the millions, will be found each year Fanking first or second among Central | American countries, % Leadership Traditional. “CGuatemala’s place near the front of the Central American procession is traditional, At the coming of the first Europeans the region was inhab- ited by the Maya-Quiche ‘Indians, fierce fighters but among the most highly civilized peoples of their time. Their history reads like a romance ! and the remarkable ruins they have | left indicate a widespread realm ot power and influence. The Spaniards made Guatemala the administrative center of all of Central America and part of Mexico. “After throwing i yoke the country was for a time a | part of the empire of Mexico, hut in | | off the Spanish 1823 an independent nation was formed under the title of the Central American federation, embracing also | the present Honduras, Salvador, Nica- | ragua and Costa Rica. One by one the states seceded and formed inde- | pendent republics, i “Another unsuccessful attempt to unite several Ceniral American coun- tries was made in 1921. A treaty rati- fied by Guatemala, Honduras and Sal- vador resulted in a federation known as the Republic of Central America, with Tegucigalpa, the capital of Hon- durag, the administrative seat. The new republic, however, was shori- lived. Guatemala today continues in a sole role with the other nations of the world, although many co-opera- | tive agreements, especially in relation | to international railroads, have been | I I made between the members of this effervescent Latin-American family. “Guatemala. has an area about | equal to that ef the state of Louisiana | and is the second largest of the Cen- tral American republics, As it is | about midway between the United | States and South America, and front- ing both on the Caribbean and the Pa- | cific, it occupies a strategic position, | both politically and economically. Mountains near the west coast, how- ever, divide its population unequally. ! “Coffee might justly be said to be! the commercial patron saint of Guate- ‘mala, for other potential riches have | been overlooked or ignored In the de- | velopment of great plantations to help | keep America and Europe supplied | with the cup that cheers. Volcanoes | that so often level its buildings and | houses make rich returns in deposits | of volcanic ash that renew the soil and make fertilization unnecessary. A the manufacture of chewing gum in the United States comes from Guate- mala. Banana farms in the tropical lowlands have lately begun to rival the coffee plantations in production. “Guatemala City, the nation’s cap- ital, presents another example of the progressive spirit of the country. Prac-- tically destroyed by a violent earth- quake in 1917, there are hardly any traces of the catastrophe in the or- derly, well-built city of churches, theaters, clubs, shops and homes of today. Natives Largely Indians. “About 60 per cent of the population is of pure Indian blood and almost half the remainder are half-castes. In the mountains of northwestern Guate- mala live thousands of pure-blooded Indians, maintaining the traditions of their forefathers. They have won the admiration of travelers for their phy- sique, cleanliness and scrupulous hon- esty. One visitor tells of trying to buy a ring from an Indian girl who refused to sed because it was not pure gold, and she did not wish to sell a stranger an imitation! “The nature lover finds the trop- ical lowlands of Guatemala a fascinat- ing land, with their dense forests cov- ering more than a million acres. Giant trees are linked together by trailing vines above a gorgeous carpet of or- chids, waxen begonias, the peculiar blossoms of the plantain, and scarlet voinsettias, “The new coin bears the name of the bird that is the national emblem of liberty of Guatemala. The quetzal is more truly a bird of liberty than the American eagle, for the quetzal It is still, as it was to their Maya an- to the Guatemalians, A story Is told concerning the part a quetzal played in the unequal duel between the Maya king Tecum Uman, and Don Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish con- queror, which was fought to prevent further bloodshed. A quetzal, in his efforts to aid the king, pecked at the eyes of Don Pedro through the holes in his helmet, the only vulnerable spot, ac he was clad in steel from head to foot” . gling, i Venezuela. ! that lived there. . contract was made. | ritory by + rain. i ticularly sporty golf course; Parsees Hold Secrets of Physical Culture The Parsees have recovered from their ancient past some marvelous secrets of physical culture, equally available for both old and young, it was indicated by a remarkable exhibi- tion given at Bombay before the lead- ers of the Parsee sect by a small group which calls itself the Zoarastri an Health league. A slim young schoolgirl, dressed in native costume, but with her sleeves pinned back to free her arms, lifted a heavy army saber—the kind that a cavalryman would exert himself to handle—and began, first slowly, then more rapidly, swinging and flashing it through the air and around her head. She swayed toward it, pulled by its weight and she retreated staggering before it as it pressed solid momen tum against her, but she controlled it, and, with a slowing swing. finally brought it to a dead stop before her and dropped it to the floor. Parsees clieered and the schoolgir? skipped to the wings. Then some schoolboys gave a wrig- lightninglike exhibition of wrestling—a sort of compromise be- tween native Indfan wrestling and a kind of Parsee jiu-jitsu. Small boys flashed wriggling and kicking in the alr and dropped with a thud on the great mat oaly to be up in a second tossing their late tormentors similarly or perhaps evan more adroitly. It was a great contrast to the heavy western style of wrestling where (wo men grunt in a deadlock from which neither can bulge. The Indian-I’arsee version is more like Japanese t(uii- bling except that the tumblers seek io tumble each other. Then a middle-aged man who had, it was explained, “only taken it up recently,” showed some stunts in scientific weight-lifting; his face showed concentration but no strain, while his biceps—very ordinary look- ing biceps—exerted themselves only moderately, as it seemed. But from various awkward positions he got a solid chunk, a hundredweight, into the air chiefly, as was explained, by “knowing how.” Another devotee of the art who had concentrated on “muscle-control” lay down on the stage while the wheels of a heavy motor car ran over his abdomen. Aviation and Diplomacy Aviation's value as an aid to diplo- . macy in settling disputes between na- tions was demonstrated in the boun- dary quarrel between Colombia and There were in dispute approximately 2,500,000 acres of marsh land and tropical forests. It was estimated that it would take In- | vestigators at least two years to cover i the district on foot, and would neces- sitate a strong military force to pro- tect them against the savage tribes A commercial avia- tion company in Colombia offering to make an aerial map of the frontier, a It required only sixteen days to cover the disputed ter- hydroplane and to make thousands of photographs of the ter- It was upon these photographs and topographical maps that the boundary commission eventually reached its agreement. Star Out on Ventura boulevard, at the Encino Country club, they have a par- in fact, to make the first hole, one has to drive straight over the lake in front of the clubhouse, and a little later there is an orange grove to be circumvented. Naturally, therefore, really good scores a e few and far between—with an equally natural result uncovered in a conversation overheard between two caddies, “What kind of score did that guy make you were carrying for this morn- ing?” asked one caddie of his pal. To which the latter replied belligerently: “Dat gent gave me two bucks an’ his score is whatever he says it is.”"— Los Angeles Times. Hindrance ‘Tve been running the Mansion -fiouse here for 20 years, and practic- ing medicine on the side into the bar- gain,” said old Dock Slaters, “but I'm afraid I've got to get a divorce from my wife for obstructing business, or something of the sort.” “Why, how is that?” guest, “Well, if she don’t obstruct business she dan’t help it along anyhow. I've hinted to her that she might once in a while cook up a little suth’n’ that would give the boarders indigestion and me a fee for attending ’em. But, no, sir—she just goes right on feed- ing ‘em fried chicken, and such as that.”—Kansas City Star, inquired a Rabbits Wear Snowshoes Darwin's law of survival of the fit: test is well observed by the rabbits in the higher Cascade mountains. They have put on their snowshoes for the winter. Living in a snowy region, these rabbits have long spreading toes. In winter their toes are covered with coarse hair, enabling the rabbits to run on top of the snow. Conse- quently they are known as snowshoe rabbits—Capper’'s Weekly. Cuba’s Scrap Iron Output Between 25,000 and 30,000 tons ot scrap iron and steel accumulate in Cuba every 12 months, and most of this scrap is sold to the United States. Among others, the Cuban rallroads produce about 9,000 tons and each sugar central anywhere from 20 to 50 tons per annum.—Compressed Air Magazii> The | Real Estate Transfers. James H. Mitchell to William H. Benner, tract in Bellefonte; $700. William J. Sager, et ux, to Antonio Quaranta, tract in Bellefonte; $3,000. Rachael C. Lucas to Minnie B. Bar- ger, tract in Howard; $1,500. Henry Meyers, Exec.,, to John J. Shultz, tract in Miles Twp.; $610. Clara A. Dugan to Steve Doman, et ux, tract in Rush Twp.; $1. Ida J. Scott, et al, to Thomas G. McCausland, ‘tract in Philipsburg; $18,000. ; A drop of GuLFoIL is “wear insurance” wherever it penetrates —door hinges, locks, washing machines, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, typewriters, electric fans, motors—in fact, every- thing that requires a high grade oil. Itnotonly lubricates butalso cleans and polishes woodwork, furniture and floors, as well as it removes and prevents rust and tarnish on metal surfaces, such as tools /: and cutlery. 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