Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, July 23, 1926, Image 7
————————— - Galli-Curci Swayed by the Seer of Sweden Hall Bellefonte, Pa., July 23, 1926. am i it State is Covered with Public Camps. Harrisburg, July 15. —Scattered throughout Pennsylvania on State forest lands and located on secondary roads are to be found almost a score of public camps designed primarily for use by hikers, hunters, fishermen and picnickers. The camps are known as Class “B” camps and cover about 400 acres. Each is equipped with a lexn-to fire- place, benches, tables, comfort sta- tions and garbage containers. may be occupied for two consecutive days without obtaining permission from the district forester. Among the camps are the follow- ing: Sizerville Camp—Near a big min- eral spring just east of Sizerville, Cameron county; has about 100 miles of roads and trails in adjacent forest. Old Locust Camp—Named for an old locust tree probably planted by Major Jacob Neff, an early settler, located in Centre county along Lewis- town-Bellefonte highway. McCall Damp Camp—Affords good hunting and fishing and on site of old McCall dam along White Deer creek; in Centre county and reached by forest road linking State highway route 306 with Sugar valley. Byron Foust Krumrine Camp—In Centre county south of Coburn; named for Byron Foust Krumrine,, newspaperman and World war soldier who was drowned in Penns creek nearby. : Ravensburg Camp—Named for rav- ens which formerly nested in great numbers in the rocks near the camp; in Clinton county along Loganton- Rauchtown road. Sprow’s Run Camp—Named for the Sprow family, well-known in the char- coal industry of the State; in South mountains with good fishing and hunt- ing; along Caledonia-Mount Holly springs road, north of Lincoln high- way. Laurel Forge Camp—In Cumber- land county, along Caledonia-Mount Holly Springs road about seventeen miles north of Lincoln highway; Laurel lake, nearby, created in pre- Revolutionary times as part of the Pine Grove Furnace operation. Bear Valley Camp—Named for the large number of bears formerly found there; near old Tuscarora Indian trail, located in Franklin county twelve miles northwest of Chambersburg. Buchanan Camp—In Franklin coun- ty south of Fort Louden on Lincoln highway; an edge of Buchanan State forest park named for President Buchanan, Clear Creek Camp—Along Clarion river in Jefferson county; reached by road from Sigel or Hillstone. Upper Pine Bottom Camp—North- east of Waterville, Lycoming county; was famous for white pine growth. Sulphur Spring Camp—Eight miles southeast of Mount Union in Mifflin county; near large forest growth. Kansas Valley Camp—Southeast of East Waterford, Perry county; said to have been the refuge of Lewis, a robber. Cherry Springs Camp—Affords ideal spot for remoteness; eight miles south of Coudersport and reached by Jersey Shore-Coudersport turnpike. Keser Camp -—Between Mount Pleasant and Somerset, Somerset county. Baldwin Run Camp—In Tioga ccun- ty, nine miles west of Wellsboro; home of much wild life. Joyce Kilmer Camp—Named for Joyce Kilmer, American poet, who lost his life in the World war; along Lewisburg-Bellefonte highway in Un- ion county. Laurel Summit Camp—In West- moreland county, twelve miles south of Lincoln highway at Laughlintown and said to have the highest elevation of all camps. Find Fish Still Used as Candles in America. The history of lighting from such crude beginnings as when the Shet- land islanders made a torch-lamp by sticking a wick in the throat of the fat stormy petrel, forms the subject of an interesting manuscript just completed as the fruit of years of re- search by a Smithsonian scientist, Dr. Walter Hough, head curator of an- thropology. Doctor Hough reveals that animals have played a surprisingly large part in furnishing light to man. A very fat little fish, called the candle fish, is burned like the stormy petrel by the Indians of the northwest coast of America. In the tropics of America the natives used to build cages to hold the great light-bearing beetle or fire- fly for illuminating purposes. But whales and seals have made the larg- est contribution, of course, in supply- ing lamp fuel. Up to the discovery of petroleum in quantities in 1859, they provided the major portion of the world’s lamp oil. Farmers Petition for More Research. Farmers and business men of Erie county, several hundred in number, have petitioned the Pennsylvania State College experiment station to start experiments in that county on various problems facing fruit and vegetable growers. The project pro- posed for consideration are in horti- culture, plant pathology, entomology, and agronomy. Increasing competition from east and west has made it imperative, say the farmers in their request, that some relief come to the growers of the lake shore county so that they can produce more economically and thus meet the growing competition. A committee composed of horticul- turists, plant pathologists, and entom- ologists of the Pennsylvania experi- ment station staff has been appointed to investigate the question. 8S. W. Fletcher, head of the department of horticulture at Penn State, is chair- man of the committee. A preliminary survey will be made this summer. \ Is Future American They, to Forget Laughter? It is gradually beginning to dawn upon the most reluctant people in the world—I refer to the Americans—that their humor is not laughing matter. Laughing will soon be recognized as a vibratory emotion in which the death rattle is distinctly discernible. Unless all signs fail, laughter will soon be relegated to the past as one of the lowest forms of self-expression. The man who laughs will be in the same case with the man who spends money only upon himself. Both are forms of ostentatious vulgarity, not to be tol- erated where spiritual intelligence wil’ soon hold dominion over intellect. Hitherto, in order to conceal our dis- may over the sudden display of truth as it came in humor, we have thought it best to laugh. But this is an age of exposure. The necessity for dissimu- lation has gone. We no longer feel ashamed at anything we do. Hence, when a good joke comes along, we may easily be inclined to shed tears over it. The tragedy of it will shock us more than before the truth of it tended to make us conceal it with an. outward show of mirth. And from all this—who knows?—a na- tional sense of humor, hitherto lack- ing, may arise. In a democracy all things are possible.—Thomas L. Mas- son, in the International Book Review Railroad Would Join President in Hades A young man had succeeded his de- ceased father as president of a small railroad in the Southwest. The old man had been heartily disliked, for he had worked his employees and his road to the last gasp and the new presi- dent on his first inspection trip found the equipment in bad shape. Toward evening his special stopped at a di- vision point and he got out. As he walked alongside his private car he met a grizzled old “car tink” who was busy tapping the car wheels with his little hammer. “What do you think of the car?” the president asked. “Good enough for the rails it rides on,” was the ambiguous reply. “Well, how about the rails?” “Rotten.” “Listen here,” said the young ex ecutive, “do you know who I am?” “Sure. You're the president. I fnew your father when he was presi- dent, and he’s going to be president again.” “What do you mean? Don’t you | know my father’s dead?” “Yep,” the old-timer nodded. “I &now he’s dead. And the road’s going to hell, too!”—The Funny Side Out, by Nellie Revell. French Middle Class The term “bourgeoisie” is applied ¢o the great middle class of the French people, consisting of the merchants, manufacturers, and upper tradesmen. Previous to the Thirteenth century they were included among the serfs, | and for long after were forbidden the use of certain ornaments and stuffs | reserved exclusively for the nobility. | Owing to the favor shown them by Philip Augustus (1189-1223), their ; social position was much improved. | As late as 1614 the president of the | States-General, speaking of the bour- | geoisie, said, “It is a great insolence | to wish to establish any sort of equal- | ity between us and them; they are | only to us as the valet to his master.” | The nobles further demanded that “the | common people be forbidden to carry pistols, to wear velvet or satin, or to own any but hamstrung dogs.”—Ex- change. Too Cold to Snow ‘The weather bureau says that the greater number of more or less heavy snows come with southerly to easterly winds—i. e., in what is known as the “rainy” portion of the cyclonic or storm area. "These winds generally are relatively mild. As the storm passes the winds come from the north- west, roughly, and are relatively cold. In short, precipitation comes with relatively warm easterly to southerly winds, and clear weather follows with relatively cold northwest winds. HM, then, the winter wind is from the northwest, it is cold, and from the wrong direction to give much snow. This, presumably, is the origin of the saying, “It is too cold to snow.” This statement, however, is not literally true, for light snows can occur at any temperature; and, indeed, it occasion- ally happens that heavy snows occur when the surface air is quite cold. Rather “Near” Relative A Chicago woman gave a relative & pox of expensive stationery. The fol- lowing Christmas the relative asked her to buy it back, offering to sell it for half she paid for it. He ex- plained he preferred a paper with lines and that he was giving her the opportunity to buy a nice gift for some one else at a reduced price. We are reminded of the story of a little boy who has just asked his mother what a near relative is, The Chicago man was a “near” relative.—Exchange Tony’s Trouble A small boy, who was sitting next ¢o his mother at dinner, was trying to force a large piece of pudding fnto his mouth, when looking up he caught his mother's eye on him. He guiltily low- ered his spoon to kis plate. “Ch, Tony,” said his mother, “I was so afrefd that was all going in.” The child looked up with a roguish smile. : “Well, mummie,” he said, “I was afraid it wasn’t.” Emanuel Sedetiock Amelita Galli-Curci Frarence go Darron, Prima Donna Gives Wonderful Interpretation of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg— ENRY FORD’S Dearborn Inde- pendent publishes a remarkable article on Galli-Curci and Ensen Swedenborg, by Clarence W. rron of the Wall Street Journal, the world famous financial authority. Mr. Barron declares that Galli- rci has the most wonderful brain has ever met or heard of in a oman, although she is much more a true woman with a life and soul pf affection for all that is ennobling mnd uplifting in the family, and in polor, form, and music.” Mr. Barron is chairman of the fRotch Trustees, who acting under the of Lydia S. Rotch of New Bed- ord, Mass., began in 1872 a modern glation of the Theological Works hich Emanuel Swedenborg wrote gnd published in the Latin tongue, pnd deposited in the libraries of the world 160 years ago. This work was completed and pub- hed by the Houghton Mifflin Co. in volumes in 1907. About three years ago there ap- ared in a Cleveland paper a para- aph that among her other accom- plishments Galli-Curci had read all the Theological Writings of Emanuel {Swedenborg. The claim seemed so rd to Mr. Barron that he thought might be easily punctured by a pimple inquiry as to the edition. The Bible a Greater Work Than Ever To Mr. Barron’s direct inquiry Madame Galli-Curci promptly re lied: “Yes, I have read in the past ear the complete Swedenborg Works, “fact it is the Rotch!Edition' of the oughton Mifflin Co. that I have. “] can say certainly that the Bible to me is a greater work than it was before.” Mr. Barron -says: “My astonish- ment was intensified. Familiar over many years with Swedenborg’s gen- eral theological writings, I had set out to read the entire thirty-two vol- umes preparatory to an advertising campaign for the sale of this edition. Reading a few pages each day I fin- ished my self-imposed task in four- teen years. I shall probably finish a gecond reading, at my present rate of rogress, in perhaps ten years. Was jt possible that a woman with no previous knowledge or relation to these books had really intelligently read them within a year?” Swedenborg’'s Writings Mr. Barron continues: “As an economist writing state papers on weights, measures, coinages and cur- rencies, Swedenborg is easily com- rehended. As an engineer transport. ng ships overland he is easily visual ized. As a government official in the great ‘mining industry of ‘Sweden, ing practical books on mining nd smelting, declared to be the foun- tion of modern metallurgy, he is of interest in the encyclopedia of sci- gntific history. As the writer of vol umes—original studies in search for fe human soul—he is not without uman interest. “But when one comes to the realm f the unseen, where there is neither me nor space upon which to rest ental conceptions, few may enter nto the fullness of the revelation which has come into the libraries of the world through Emanuel Sweden- PTS ik of twenty modern-sized lumes, originally written in the tin tongue and unfolding from the ebrew of ‘Genesis’ and ‘Exodus’ the ternal or spiritual sense that lies eath the letter. Annex a dozen more similar volumes that not only expound every picture set forth in the book of ‘Revelation’ as conveyor of g tremendous truth of universal application throughout invisible de- of creation and life, but also fllumine all the problems of sex as presented throughout the universe from the union of the love and wis- dom in the divine down to sex crystal- lization in the mineral kingdom; in- clude the deepest of all works ever written entitled, in the original Latin, ‘Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Di- vine Love and the Divine Wisdom.’| Then answer to yourself the number of years that ought to be required to master these thirty-two volumes.” Mean More Than Any Other Books ) Mr. Barron, still credulous, con- tinued his correspondence With Madame Galli-Curci for some months, He learned that soon after she lost her dear mother she had sought the Writings of Swedenborg in a desire to know more about the other world whence her mother had gone. She spent the entire summer vacation studying Swedenborg’s Works, and declared: “They have meant, and mean more to me than anything else I have ever read.” When Galli-Curci returned from California Mr. Barron motored up into the Catskills to her beautiful Italian palace, and in an afternoon with her and her husband, Mr. Homer Samuels, he was convinced that Galli- Curci had read and devoured Sweden- borg in a briefer period than any- body had ever done before. He says of this interview: “Hours flew like minutes. I wasn’t the questioner. Mr. and Mrs. Samuels were at me with the sharpest and deepest. questions. They seemed "in perfect harmony mentally and spir- itually, as in their work in musie Wanted to Learn “She wanted to know about the ‘Grand Man’. I told her it would be easier to comprehend it if she would forego the idea of time and space and consider, as Swedenborg says in ‘The Apocalypse Explained’, that every so- ciety in .the heavens connects with’ some organ of’ the human .body and helps to sustain it. Therefore the heavens have the organization of the ‘Grand Man’, but we need not think of it as a shape or figure. “‘Yes,” exclaimed her husband, ‘I see it; it is organization.’ I explained, also, how the ‘Psalms’ likewise con- nected with every society of the heavens, and how the world within and without was knit together in one grand poem and song of creation, man in the image of his Maker and knit into Him through the heavens, from which he has life in every organ of his body. ; Swedonborg’s 32 Volumes Read in a * Single Summer “‘Now I understand,’ she said, and asked me for explanation of other things. Her intelligent questions, as well as her statements, left no man- ner of doubt that Galli-Curci had performed the stupendous feat of reading the thirty-two volumes of Swedenborg in a single summer sea- son. She declared ‘Heaven and Hell’ a very attractive and popular title and concerns that about which people are most eager to know; but it is not one of Swedenborg’s great works; al- though it makes a good popular and introductory work.” A Help in Her Work Galli-Curci understands the writ. ings of Swedenborg even better than theologians, because she puts them into practice in the broadest life of loving helpfulness. She said that Swedenborg had helped her in her work. She had no longer to think of herself but of her audiences, and let the music flow through her: regard herself just a medium for life to pour through. She felt with and for her audiences, and singing was no effort for her. All Fear Vanishes “The more you do—the more you give forth—the more life and energy is poured into you, and you are stronger and not weaker for the ing, the working and the singing. always feel stronger; I. am not hausted at all by my singing. enborg shows the reason and comes in as you peer it forth to others. You don’t have to 0 worry or fret. You know it is yo! but that it is just being done through you.” . Speaking further of the help Swed- enborg had been ic her in her work she said: “One gu's so much more confidence. The other world and the one life, that comprehends all life, becomes reality and all fear and worry vanish.” ny Thi g —Many horses fail to stand up un- der the work of the summer months because of the ration fed. It is like burning a candle at both ends to feed a horse a heavy, heating ration internally with the summer sun burn- ing from" the exterior. One dozen eggs weigh one and one- half pounds. 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