——————————— Sn wi— Pewormaiic, Watch Bellefonte, Pa., April 30, 19286. ES ——————————————— 14,000,000 TONS OF ANTHRACITE IS BURNED IN 67-YEAR COAL MINE FIRE. The most destructive and ‘longest mine fire in the world, according to mining engineers, has just completed burning for sixty-seven years at a loss which can only be estimated in eight figures. The area involved is about a mile in length and 1,500 feet wide and dur- ing the time it has been burning a total of $3,000,000 has been expended in an attempt to extinguish it. Estim- ates of the tonnage consumed dur- ing the entire period of the fire are placed by engineers as high as 14,- 000,000. The area in which the fire has been raging is owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, founded in 1820. It is in what is known as the lower coal field of the anthracite re- gion. Various stories are told concerning the origin of the great underground conflagration, but the following is re- garded as the most authentic accord- ing to officials of the company: In the days before the Civil war, it was common to have large stoves at the bottom of the slopes for the comfort of the men. Daniel Boyle was the bottom man at the Summit Hill working where the fire originat- ed. Coming to work one morning a lit- tle later than usual, Boyle is said to have hastily shaken the grate of the stove and several burning coals fell to the bottom with the ashes. An empty mine car of the all-wood var- iety, which was standing nearby was used by Boyle to dump the hot coal and ashes into. During Boyle’s temporary absence, ERE a driver hauled the car with the hot coals into an abandoned section of the mine as he had been ordered to do by his foreman on the previous day. It was not until sometime later that the fire was discovered in that section of the pit. The hot coals had started a fire in the bottom of the mine car and it communicated with the fifty foot vein of anthracite. Because many of the workings in section were undeveloped at that time, officials closed the burning area work, believing that it would burn itself out. In the early eighties the first at- tempt was made to extinguish’ the burning mass when a large cut was made from one hillside to another. Eventually, however, the fire ate its way past breach. The next attempt was to place dyn- amite holes across the burning base | for a distance of 250 feet and then fill it with a fine silt of water and coal dirt. This also failed. Partial check of the fire was finally made when a twelve-foot gap was sunk to a depth of 160 feet into the earth and lined with concrete and intervening space filled with clay that made a barrier 700 feet long. The fire traveled so rapidly that this was finished only under the most trying hardships. Before the barrier was finally closed, it was possible only for the large force of men to work in twenty-minute shifts. While the spread of the fire has been checked, it is still raging in the original area, evidence of this being revealed by the smoke arising from the surface on rainy days and the ab- sence of snow from that section dur- ing the winter. Despite the fact that a process of flushing the workings with water will be continued until the fire is extin- guished, it is believed that it will burn for the next twenty years at least. RR Keep several smooth hardwood boards in your kitchen so that you will have something on which to rest your hot saucepans. he Problems Presented to the small Bank may seem trivial compared with the im- mense and complicated affairs of a bil- lion dollar institution. But the respective bur- den of responsibility is almost exactly the same. The one calls for the same intelligent care and management as the other. The country professional or business man is often the peer of the more eminent city operator. Judgment, Experience, Knowledge, Skill are necessary accompaniments, wherever the field may be. The First National Bank BELLEFONTE, PA. £ i FA coumulated YE Xperience $& Rr eT NN A NM AANA A MY] QA he accumulated experience of 22 years, together with sub- stantial resources and con- servative progress, equip the First National Bank to serve you well. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK STATE COLLEGE, PA. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM a a EAA TAA EDS AA EINNEIN NNN) = o : A restful night on one of the Great Ships of the € & B Line mak leasant break in your journey. A good bed in a clean, NE somm a long, sound sleep and an appetizing reakfast in the morning. Steamers “SEEANDBEE”—-“CITY OF ERIE”-“CITY OF BUFFALO” Daily May Ist to November 15th 5 9 Leave Buffalo— 9:00 P. Arrive Cleveland *7:00 A. M. { Eastern M. Standard Time Leave Cleveland—9:00 P. M. Arrive Buffalo— *7:00 A. M. *Steamer “CITY OF BUFFALO” arrives 7:30 A. M. Connections for Cedar Point, Put-in-Bay, Toledo, Detroit Ask your ticket agent or tourist agency for tickets via C&B aod Cher Automobile Rate—$7.50. Send for free sectional puzzle chart of the Great Ship “SEEANDBEE” and 32-page booklet. The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. Cleveland, Ohio Your Rail Ticket is Good on our Steamers ints, 'ourist ? Four C & B Steamers in Daily Service Fare $5.50 tie Music Students of Nation in Competi- tion at Sesqui-Centennial. Word of particular interest to Pennsylvania musicians was received a short time ago, concerning the musicians contest under the asupices of the committee in charge of Sesqui- Centennial music, to be held in Octo- ber and November. State contests will be held between October 7 and 17, district contests in fourteen districts between October 19 and 24 and the National contest in Philadelphia November 1, 2 and 3, CLEAN OUT YOUR CELLAR. In the health talk of the Pennsyl- vania department of health prepared by H. F. Bronson, section of housing bureau of engineering, state depart- ment of health, Mr. Bronson says: “The living room is by no means the most important one in the house. Many people, however, think that it is. On the contrary, it is the cellar. It is there that the health factor in your family is to some extent going to be determined. “Not a few years ago many of the cellars in the cities were unwhole- some. They were dark, they were damp, they were musty. Not a few of them lacked drainage facifities and habitually entertained pools of water. Moreover, certain pests carry- ing disease and death in their train were frequently present. Rats, mice, roaches and beetles occupied the first floor; and being of an inquisi- tive and nomadic nature, they fre- quently entertained themselves by prowling around your kitchen and your dining room. “A damp cellar is a health hazard. Rodents carry bubonic plague and mice can carry typhus fever. There are some authorities who are con- vinced that they also are the purvey- ors of measles and chicken pox. “While modern construction in ur- ban districts calls for a cement floor and a furnace, there are literally thousands of homes in cities where the old-fashioned disease spreading cellar yet remains. And as for rural sections, the modern cellar is even yet the exception. “Moreover, the food supply, espe- cially of the farmer, is located in the cellar. It also furnishes nutriment to the rats and the mice. Much food in the farmer's cellar finds its way in- to the city markets. It therefore follows that the cities and the coun- trymen alike should have a definite in- terest in seeing that all cellars are as sanitary as it is possible to make them. “The state department of health suggests that the model cellar should have cement walls and cement floors as well as a strip of wire mesh sunk in the cement around each corner. The doors leading into the cellar should be made with carefully level- led cement or iron sills and properly protected with a strip of iron around the bottom; this for the purpose of eliminating any space through which either a mouse or rat could gain ac- cess. “Such construction automatically eliminates the rodents and is water- proof when properly drained and con- sequently dry. But do not forget that even the proper type of cellar needs seasonal cleaning. “Buy expensive over-stuffed furni- ture, if vou will; amuse yourself nightly with the radio and victrola, if you can afford it. In other words, enjoy all the high standards of living which your purse entitles you to, but don’t forget that if you have not al- ready done so, whether you be an ur- ban or rural dweller, the best invest- ment from a house standpoint which you can make is to see that your cel- lar is on a plane with the rest of your house. Disease and even death may thus be avoided. Don’t forget the cellar!” cert at the Sesqui-Centennial on No- vember 4. Contestants will be accepted in so- prano, tenor, violin, piano, contralto, baritone, violincello and organ, and must not have reached their 24th birthday on November 4, 1926. The national winners in each of the eight classifications will be awarded a prize of $500. This contest aims to give an imme- diate and definite objective toward which students may work to inspire greater effort in artistic achievement and to demonstrate the important { place given music and music educa- tion in America. Contestants from Pennsylvania will communicate with Mrs. Samuel Lip- pincott Borten, Norristown, Penna. Indian’s Prayer Breaks Drought and Saves Crops. The rattlesnakes of the Hopi In- dians evidently carried the prayers of the red men for rain to the spider woman of the underworld, who the Indians believe has control over the rain clouds, for heavy rains fell, breaking the long-extended drought which threatened the crops and live stock ranges of central and southern Arizona. The Hopi Indians recently staged their annual colorful and weird snake dance at their pueblo at Waipi, near Winslow, offering up their pray- ers for rain by liberating hundreds of rattlesnakes, which were supposed to carry the rain prayers to the snake mother and thence to the spider wo- man of the underworld. The dance is one of the most fantastic of American Indian dances—the Indians wrap and wind the snakes about their bodies and even take the reptiles in their mouths during the dance with utter abandon as to the danger of the poisonous fangs. Solution of Cross-word Puzzle No. 5 VIE|S B mp —-z/>» mi—|~{E >| D{m|-v|OFR WO =D DM = FEEEE Ell m| oom Dm |>ERT O| Ti» =| DHCP IZ m|— >| asm HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puszsle 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 “horisontal” defines a word which will All the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number unded é“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black ene below. No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initinls, technical terms and obse- lete forms are indicated in the definitions, CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 6. seamen 1 2 PB RI 5 [6 [7 & 7 10 11 iz 1 x 15 16 17 1 19 20 2.1 2 23 [Tie 05 6 27 |28 ll 29 30 31 miss 35 36 [37 33 Lu a0 | 1 142 43 44 5 46 47 4 49 50 5 IF I ere a Newser Talon) Horizontal. Vertical. 1—High point of a wave 2—Part of “to be” 3—Measure of length 4—Earth’'s satellite 5—Prohibits 6—Skill 1—To fascinate b—Sets a trap 9—Condition of mind 11—Vehicle 12—Printing measure 14—Temporarily inert 16—To exist T—That thing 17—Juice of a tree 8§—Exhausted 19—Requires _ 10—Vision 20—Writing implement 11—Golf club carrier 21—A snare 13—War god 23—Conjunction 15—F.umans 24—An unusual accomplishment 16—Vegetable 26—Vapor 18—Model 27—To long for 20—Allows 29—To open a keg 22—Rings a bell 20—Circumference of a wheel 24—1Is unsuccessful 26—Fit 28—Period of time 31—Young woman 32—Leather strip 31—Fuses 83—Good 35—Auditory organs 36—Beverage 88—To cease 33—Spiritless 40—To conquer 34—Acts 41—Ensnares 35—Pitchers 43—Ocean 37—To consume 44—Boy’s name 390—Buckets 45—Speech 41-—Horse’'s pace 47--Note of scale 42—Kind 48—T0 exchange (var. sp.) 45—Night bird 49—To let fall ‘ 46—Conjunction 51—The kind of milk not to cry 48—Note of scale 50—Father , over 53—8treet cars (Eng.) oa Sis : Solutien will appear in next issue, 1926. 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