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Bellefonte, Pa., August 13, 1926.
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Holy Fire Burns for 200 Years.
Deeply impressive and often |
strange are the many examples of
perpetual fires and flames that are
kept burning for a long period, as
memorials to the great and as sym-
bols of certain creeds and customs of
religion and humanity. Perhaps the
best-known example are those of pag-
an people who keep up perpetual fires
as a religious custom.
The oldest known fire in the world
is that in a Buddhist temple near
Bangkok, Siam, which has been burn-
ing without interruption for two cen-
turies. A priest is always on guard
to watch the sacred flame. Every
four years a new flame is kindled, but
this is always lighted in the great
blazes from a brand of the old fire.
The life of a grand vizier in Persia
was once saved by a Parsee trader,
who discovered and exposed a plot to
kill the royal official. In spite of the
fact that the Persians are Mohamme-
dans and hold fire worshipers in con-
tempt, a single flame has been kept
burning continuously for seventy-five
years at Sarhad in honor of the huni-
ble trader.
In inhabited lands within the arctic
circle fires Lave been known to burn
for years. This, however, is not so
much a custom as it is simple prac-
tice based on resources of convenience
and necessity because of the scarcity
of wood or kindling of any kind to
produce ignition. Oil is the fuel of
the people who live in the eternal
snows of the cold north.
Soon after the death of Caruso, a
candle of chemically treated beeswax
was constructed in New York to be
used as a memorial to the famous
opera singer. It ‘was designed to
burn twenty-four hours on each All
Soul’s day in the Church of Our,Lady
of Pompeii, Italy, where Caruso last
worshiped. The candle, 5 feet in cir-
cumference at the base, 16 feet high
and weighing one ton, will burn for
eighteen centuries at the rate of one
day a year, it was estimated. Made
of antique Greek design with Roman
rennaisance relief on the order of an
orphan asylum in New York of which
Caruso was a generous benefactor,
the candle cost $3,700. It bears an
inscription: “Offering to the Most
Holy Mary of Pompeii in behalf of
our benefactor Enrico Caruso.”—Ex.
Camping and Problem of Food.
There is no healthier sport than
camping. During the warm and balmy
spring and summer days, it is real
recreation. To get out in the fresh
air and sunshine, free from worry and
care, enhances the health of anyone,
be he office man, salesman or what
not.
But due to the entirely inadequate
means of food preservation and re-
frigeration found in the majority of
camps, there is the ever-present dan-
ger of sickness from infected foods:
The utmost care must be taken in or-
der that this may be avoided. Butter
and eggs should be bought only as
used. The milk is a problem in itself.
Perhaps the solution lies in the use of
a milk other than market milk, in or-
der that purity and sterility may be
assured. For such use, evaporated
milk is ideal. Many people are wont
to confuse evaporated and condensed
milk but. there is no similarity be-
tween the two. Condensed milk is a
combination of sugar and milk and
can be used only when both of these
substances are desired. Evaporated
milk is merely pure, fresh milk with
about sixty per cent. of the water re-
moved and the nutrient content left
intact. It is absolutely sterile and
pure, having been sterilized before
leaving the factory. The water, re-
moved by evaporation, may be re-
placed very easily and the milk re-
turned to its original volume. Evap-
orated milk may be obtained in small
cans, containing six ounces or in larg-
er ones containing sixteen and can be
taken to the camp in quantities suf-
ficient for the needs of the entire per-
iod, thus assuring a constant supply
of pure, fresh milk without the worry
or the danger attached to the use cf
the market product.
The Bird Population.
The total bird population of con-
tinental United States, as estimated
by biologists of the department of
agriculture, is 4,000,000,000 to 5,000,-
000,000. There are probably about 40
birds to every person, says the Bulle-
tin of Mass. Audubon Society.
As to the breeds, it is pleasant to
note that the friendly robin is most
numerous. In the northeastern and
central States, the only sections
thoroughly covered in the bird cen-
sus, out of 1,052,000,000 in all, there
were found 82,000,000 robins. Next
came the English sparrow with 69,-
000,000, the song sparrow with 50,-
000,000, the catbird with 34,000,000,
the meadow lark with 29,000,000, the
house wren and kingbird with 23,-
000,000 each, and the bluebird with
22,000,000.—From “Our Dumb Ani-
mals.”
Florida Lots Sold to Pay Back Taxes.
Miami, Florida—Several thousand
Florida lots, located in developments
around Miami, are offered at auction
at the country court house of Dade
County for back taxes. Many of the
properties are held by Northern resi-
dents who purchased during the buy-
ing hysteria, which continued for sev-
eral years up to last Fall.
The publication of the list of prop-
erties against which the country and
State hold claims took twenty-four
pages of a Miami newspaper. The
owners of many of these properties
are unknown to the tax departments
of the county.
Rough roads cause considerable
damage to the working parts of an au-
tomobile. Uneven roads are often un-
noticed while driving as the body of
the car does not shake with the axles
“land -(on” account. of the excellence
and differential.
FOREIGN TRAVEL
HOLDS SURPRISES
Americans on First Trip
Abroad Find Hotel and
Train Customs Different.
New York.—Americans contemplat-
ing a first trip abroad are particularly
interested in all the hints they can
obtain on differences in mail, travel
and hotel! customs abroad, said a rep-
resentative of the American Express
company recently, ‘when asked for
some general information on baggage
and other items connected with trav-
el. Seasoned travelers know all these
things, b¥&t each year produces a
brand new crop of visitors to Eu-
rope who have to get this information.
Not only are customs different, but
common everyday things go by dif-
ferent names, he pointed out, and
this applies not only to countries
where foreign languages are spoken,
but to England, where a street car is
called a tram, “curb” is spelled
“kerb,” and a “check” is “cheque,”
and that the latter has to bear »
revenue stamp.
Division of service on trains into
classes, since many years unknown in
America, is universal in Europe. In
most countries there are three classes
and in some four. First class is
everywhere used only by the very
rich—and by Americans. Second class
has practically disappeared in Eng-
of third class), except on a few trains
connecting with boats for the Conti-
nent, on which services there is a de-
mand for second class all the way
through. The almost universal habit
among well-informed Americans, he
said, is to travel third class in Eng-
land and second in most of Europe,
going first perhaps in Spain and Por-
tugal. Where fourth class is foun”
the seats are seldom upholstered.
In most countries circular tickets
(like our prewar mileage books),
good for a certain amount of travel
anywhere over certain lines or within
the country, may be obtained. In
some, reduced rates obtain for trips
of more than a. certain length; in
others, tickets good for unlimited
travel for a certain number of days
may be obtained at a flat price.
Ticket Examination.
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Throughout Europe: tickets are in-
variably examined on entering the |
train platform or boarding the train, |
and must usually be retained and sur |
rendered at destination. |
Time tables, it was said, are not
freely distributed in Europe, and it is
sometimes difficult to obtain informa- |
tion about connections even from the
station agent..! On most of the Conti-
nent the 24-hour clock is used, the
hours from 1 p. m. to midnight being
known as 13:to 24 o'clock. : Trains are
not commonly referred to by their
numbers, as in America, and the story
of the American who with infinite
pains had learned the number of the
evening train is classic. “How is No.
15 running this evening?’ he asked
the station agent. “The 7:43 is re
ported on time, sir,” replied the ir
flexible Britisher.
The fact that European goaches
are divided into compartments is
known to most Americans. Originally
these compartments ran all the way
across the coaches from one side to
the other, and access from one com-
partment to the next was only by
opening the door and swinging along
an outside running board. Such
coaches are still to be found on local
runs, and are practically universal
in rural districts, but on through runs
on the Continent they have been su |
perseded by corridor-and-vestibule
cars. The compartments open at one !
side directly out of doors, but on the
other into the corridor, which rung
along one side of the coach. |
Reserved Seats.
Jn European railways there are ma
most no separate coaches consisting
entirely of reserved seats, like the’
pullman cars in America. A few lines
in England run pullman cars, and of
course all compartments in sleeping |
cars are on reservation, but in general
the above holds true. Instead, any
seat, number of seats or compartments
in an ordinary day coach may be re-
served according to regulations, which
vary in different countries.
Usually a small fee is required for
reserving a seat, and in some coun-
tries, for instance in Italy, the reser-
vation protects the seat only until a
few minutes before the time of de-
parture. After that the seat belongs
to the one who gets there first.
Throughout Europe it is the custom to
require the marking of a seat in some
manner when leaving it, for however
short a time. A book, gloves or hat
suffices. It is sometimes possible to
obtain exclusive use of a compartment
without taking quite all the seats
therein.
Tor sleeping, first (and usually sec
+nd) class passengers on payment of
an additional amount have access to
sleeping cars much like the compart-
ments in the newer American pull-
nans, where all bedding is supplied by
the company. On other runs only
“couchettes” are available, and the
traveler must supply his own cover:
ing, if desired. This can usually be
rented and turned over to a repre-
sentative of the renter at the end of
the run.
To Americans the total absence ot
Jrinking water on most trains (except,
of course, in the dining cars) proves
an inconvenience, but the natives pro-
vide themselves with bottles of min-
| many cities and some countries there
i not taken Into. consideration the total
i is apt to be more than expected.
Burdtely plenty of servants the au-
‘and second-class coaches and smoking
eral water. light wines or beer before
er a —_—
leaving and do not seem to suffer in
the least. :
Table d’Hote on Diners.
Generally only table d’hote meals
are served in dining cars. There are:
several sittings, tickets to which are
issued by attendants, a convenience
appreciated by Americans.
The amount of baggage carried free
varies in different countries, as do
the customs. In England most trains
carry “luggage vans,” or baggage
cars, in which trunks and other heavy
baggage may be carried, but in which
there are no facilities for checking.
On arrival at destination each pas.
senger must claim his own trunk.
On most of the Continent only such
baggage will be carried free as can
be taken into one’s compartment, and
to be allowed in the compartment at
all it must not exceed certain dimen-
sions, so that it can go In the rack
above one’s head. All other baggage
must be “registered,” which means
that it is carried checked in the bag-
gage car mych as in America, except
that extra payment must be made.
The advice often encountered to
carry only hand baggage is due to the
fact that many trains do not carry
beggage cars, so that if heavy arti-
cles are taken they must often he left
behind to come by a later train. Con-
trary to the custom in America, it is
usually the faster trains which do not
carry baggage cars and the locals
which do.
Americans are puzzled at the ab-
sence of any service parellel to the
“express” in this country, whereby
articles are forwarded under receipt
and attended by messengers. Articles
may be sent through the malls and by
freight. i
Sending’ Letters.
When it is défifiltély known at what
hotels one will be, and on what dates,
it is usually more convenient to have
one’s letters sent there. Otherwise it
is best to use the foreign offices of
some travel agency or firm. Friends
should be warned that only to British
possessions will 2 cents carry a let-
ter; elsewhere the minimum charge is
5 cents. The American Express com-
pany, whose Paris office during the
summer rush handles as many as
40,000 letters a day, finds that 80 per
cent of all letters received for patrons
carry insufficient postage.
Another thing which causes confu-
sion is that no telegrams or letters
can be sent collect, so that when it Is
expected that cables will arrive after
one’s departure a small deposit should
be left at the address In care of which
they will arrive to cover the cost of
telegrapbing them on.
Hotel customs do not differ greatly
from those in this country. The
“American plan” of operation is found
far more frequently than in the land
which gave it birth. Many hotels now
make a surcharge for service, and in
are taxes on hotel bills. These items
are not included in the prices quoted
for accommodations, but are added to
the total. of the bill, so that if this Is
The hall porter, or ‘concierge,’ is
an important individual and can do
much to make one’s stay pleasant. | -
Contrary to the usual impression, it
(8s only in England that the traffic
goes to the left. Elsewhere, when it
/ has any noticeable predilection at all,
it inclines to the right. Americans
who have wondered at the incessant
squawking of motor horns in Paris are
informed that an ordinance requires
bulb horns within the city limits. |
Taxis are surprisingly cheap in
Paris, and nowhere are they much
dearer than In this country, in spite
of the considerably higher price of
gasoline. 2
Compared with America, there are
of course extremely few buildings
which have elevators, and those which
do often have queer customs. In
many apartment houses the elevators
will carry one up, but if one wishes
to descend one must walk. In others,
tenants may ride free, but visitors
must pay. Servants are denied the
use of the elevators in many places.
In spite of cheaper labor and com-
tomatic elevator is met with much
more often than in this country.
European Subways.
Americans who use the European
subways are surprised to find first
cars, with different rates and different
tickets for the different classes. In
London the rates vary with the dis-
tance traveled, and the tickets bear
the names of starting point and desti-
nation. On the Continent a flat fare
Is more common. There is no surveil-
lance to see that a traveler with a
second-class ticket doesn’t get into a
first-class coach, but occasionally in-
spectors come through who mildly col-
lect the additional sum from delin-
quents.
On some lines season tickets are
sold, good for an unlimited number of
trips during the period named. As
everywhere, the tickets must be shown
at the entrance, where they are
punched and surrendered at the exit.
In London most of the subways—
“tubes,” they are called—are deep un-
derground, and so elevators from the
train platforms discharge the passen-
gers Into shop-lined arcades through
which they reach the street. Some of
the Paris subways were built by Eng-
lish companies, and consequently the
trains run to the left. Express serv-
ice is practically unknown, though the
London trains maintain a semblance
of one by skipping certain stops. The
signs Indicating such trains read:
“This train passes—,” followed by the
names of the stations skipped, and
many a visitor has been deluded
thereby into believing the train not
only passed but stopped at those
points.
Scientists Working Out Gi-
gantic Jig-Saw Puzzle in
the Southwest.
Washington.—Scientists are work-
ing out a gigantic jig-saw puzzle In
the Southwest, first searching over
hundreds of square miles of terri
tory for the pieces that nature has
hidden through the centuries.
The story of this fascinating “game”
is wrapped up in an announcement
just made by the National Geographic
society that its research committee
has made an additional grant of funds
to continue this summer the “Beam
Expedition” work under the leader-
ship of Dr. A. E. Douglas of Steward
observatory, University of Arizona
Ancient Apartment Houses.
“No one knows the age of the inter-
esting communal dwellings, America’s
first ‘apartment houses,’ that have
been unearthed in New Mexico,” says
a bulletin from the Washington
(D. C.) headquarters of the National
Geographic society. *“The largest of
these, Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco canyon,
has been intensively studied by Na-
tional Geographic society expeditions
during the past six years. Much new
information has been gathered in re-
gard to these early Americans from
the examples disclosed of their ma-
sonry, pottery, baskets and culture,
for they had no calendar. Now this
‘secret ‘seems likely to be found out
from the examination of what laymen
might consider prosaic old wooden
beams that supported the flat roofs of
the Bonitans.
“Doctor Douglas found some years
ago that trees in growing not only
leave a ring for each year, but that
often the character of the ring de-
notes the particular year in which it
grew. That is, in an unusually moist
season an especially wide or well-
marked ring will be left in all the
trees of the region subjected to the
unusual conditions. If a living tree
four hundred years old is cut and a
recent characteristic ring identified,
other outstanding rings made in the
tree's youth can be dated centuries
ago. These characteristic marks may
be found, in turn, among the most re-
cent rings of an ancient log preserved
in a sandbank, and so nature’s cal-
endar may be followed back still
farther. :
Scientists Hunt Old Wood.
“Since the working out of this
aethod the scientists of the National
Geographic society’s Beam expedition
have been scouring the Southwest for
specimens of ancient wood. Some
have been discovered in the form of
old tree stumps covered centuries ago
by the sand and clay washed by some
extraordinary storm. Others have
been found in Indian pueblos, still in
use; and still others in the ruins of
ancient structures.
“In every case cross-sections have
seen prepared and microscopic stud-
ies made. Many of the specimens, of
course, have been found to cover ap-
proximately the same period of time;
but new and then a lucky find has
pushed the earliest known date line
of the United States a few decades
or generations farther back.
“Science has not completed this
chronological puzzle, but working
from both ends it has fitted piece
after piece into place, steadily nar-
rowing the gap of the unknown. It is
hoped that before long a trustworthy
estimate can be made of the ruins, so
fitting America’s early civilization
into its proper relation to that of the
Old world.”
“Nicky,” Polar Mascot,
Survives Lost Master
New Philadelphia, Ohio.—With a
<ecord behind her that would discour-
age any conscientious mascot, Niec-
carowra, a cat, survivor of. two tyédgic
expeditions, is the house guest of
David Maurer, father of Fred Maurer,
who was lost in a dash to reach help,
when his party, the second Wrangell
island expedition, was stranded in the
Arctic in 1923.
She was mascot on the ill-fated Kar-
fuk, which was wrecked In an ice-
pack in Camden bay in 1913. She was
rescued from the Karluk by a sailor,
and taken by Maurer on the flight
across the dreary snowfields to Wran-
gell island in a fur bag on his dog
sled.
Nine years later at the time of the
second Wrangell island expedition,
after Maurer was given up for dead,
Nicky was brought back to her mas-
ter’'s home here.
Alimony Thief’s Suicide
Laid to Red-Haired Girl
Two Rivers, Wis.—A red-haired girl
set the stage for the final act in the
muddled life of John Walesh, who
crawled into the main street here,
asked for a drink and toppled over,
dead.
Accused of robbing his wife of $55
alimony money, which she expected to
use for her brood of seven children,
Walesh, officers said, went to the
roadhouse near here where he met
a red-headed girl who robbed him.
Making his way back to the city,
Walesh sought seclusion in a barn just
off the main street.
Somewhere he procured a razor and
with blood dripping from gashes from
his wrists, he crawled to the street.
A passerby brought him & drink of
water and he fell dead as he drank.
The Rate of Interest on
Investments of High Grade
is Tending Downward
iberty Bonds now return less than 4 per cent.
~ One Treasury loan was placed at less than
334 per cent. This shows that we are
creating wealth in excess of the capital
needed for the new enterprises.
High Interest Rates today involve a risk
that the prudent investor should avoid.
The First National Bank
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proportion are preventable. Those
who deal with this Bank, and take the
advice of its officers, suffer no accident.
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