Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, December 24, 1926, Image 6
Deworaii Waldman, “Bellefonte, Pa., December 24, 1926. SAGE SAYINGS Every man swells up after uttering a big word. If we did everything we were told ‘to do—we couldn't. The man who works hard to think ‘thinks hard to work, Among the drugs that are not habit- forming is castor oil. He who lives for self and self alone is a successful failure. A dear girl is apt to make a poor young man feel cheap. Contentious people will even argue with you about the weather. Books must follow sciences, not sciences books.—Bacon. It is often difficult to get even with people who owe you money. A woman likes to move to another locality so that people won't know her age. Never judge a man’s knowledge ot ‘human nature by the opinion he has ‘of himself, Riches ‘have wings, but they don’t seem to have any tail that you can put salt on. He gains wisdom in a happy way ‘who gains it by another's experi- ence.—Plautus. Half the people are worrying about ‘being found out—the other half about ‘being taken in, The average man hasn't enough “courage to applaud until some other fellow starts it. A good doctor has to know almost -a8 much about medicine as he knows -about human nature. and Everybody wants to boss somebody . and there is always somebody who wants to boss everybody. ‘Good Hauls of Fish Thrown Up on Beach An unusual sight was reported in the vicinity of Hoodsport, near Shel- ‘ton, Wash., when residents observed hundreds of fish from the deeper wa- ters ‘thrown up on the beach for a mile or more and captured what they wanted by merely picking up the squirming fish. There were rock cod, mackerel, flounders, sole, eels, crabs and shrimp, and even a wolf fish nearly five feet long, says the Seattle “Times. As a school of black fish was notea ‘In the canal during the week before ‘it was thought they might have chased ‘the smaller fish ashore, although the ‘black fish are not uncommon, and the show of so many small fish ashore ‘has never been known before. An- ‘other suggestion is that the recent storm, although mild in this section, might have created some underwater disturbance which drove the fish to commit suicide.” At any rate it was easy fishing while it lasted. Planted a Great Forest Boy scouts played an important part in the New York state tree-plant- ing program during the last spring and summer, according to a report of the conservation commission of that state recently made public. New York is one:of the states which has adopt- ed a broad reforestation program and bas invited private individuals agencies to assist. The boy scouts, according to the report, planted 70,- G00 trees, an increase of 100 per cent over the year previous. The scouts in their increased planting kept pace proportionately with the increase in tree planting activities throughout the state. : Inquiry and Reply “Here, there!” yelled Constable Slackputter, the faithful guardian of the peace and dignity of Petunia. “What in tunkett d've mean—dod blast ye!—by tearing around the pub- lic square like forty dogs after a cat? What d’ye expect to accomplish by it?’ “Thought I might be able to bust through the front window of the bank, run over a prominent citizen, or some- thing of the sort,” returned the of- fending motorist, cheerily.—Kansas City Star. Second-Hand Radio Sets A recent survey carrying a Washing- ton date line states that the problem of merchandising second-hand radio sets is becoming as important a busi- ness as that of selling second-hand automobiles. The survey claims that the great majority of radio fans start - with small sets and gradually work i up to the many tubed receivers, pro- viding a continual and every-creasing supply of “trade-in” sets. It is pre- + dicted that the coming winter will : See many used radio sales.”—The Outs look. Those Dear Girls ‘Madge—Are you going to return the poor fellow’s ring? Marie (who has just broken her en- gagement)—I haven't decided. I sup- pose he’ll propose to you now, and I thought I'd just hand it over to you to save the bother. Nothing Like That Judge—Then the two women had an epistolary dispute. Witness—No pistols at all about it, sah. Dey Jes’ writ a lot 0 mean things to one anothah. Getting Perfect “Well,” sighed the fellow whose horse hadn't shown, “at least I am a good loser.” “You ought te be,” snarled his wife. “You have had plenty of practice.” eastward to Monterey, and | YANGTZE IS LIFE ARTERY OF CHINA Only River Outside Amer- ica Guarded by U. S. Washington.—The only river outside American territory on which United States gunboats are constantly on guard; the busiest river waterway in the world; and the stream whose basin holds a greater population than any other. Such, according to a bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) headquarters of the National Geographic society, is the Yangtze river of China, where, because of looting expeditions by Chi- nese faetional troops, the United States naval authorities have warned American ships to curtail sailings on part of the stream. “The Yangtze Kiang cannot quite claim to be either the greatest or the longest river in the world,” says the bulletin. “Its length is about 3,000 miles and it is therefore exceeded by the Mississippi-Missouri, the Amazon, the Nile and one or two others. In volume it probably ranks third: after the Amazon and the Congo. But the Yangtze can lay claim to a much more important factor than mere bigness or length. With its tributary rivers, lakes and canals, it constitutes the inland water system most used by man as a carrier of his commerce. “The Yangtze rises in central Tibet at an altitude of 15,000 feet or more among the tangled mass of mountains and plateaus that also give birth to three other huge Asiatic streams: the Yellow, the Mekong and the Salween. In its journey to the sea it cuts through several distinct mountain ranges, forming some of the deepest: river gorges in the world. At one point in Yunnan, the gorge of the riv- er is 13,000 feet deep. In 1923 and 1924 these far western gorges of the Yangtze were explored and for the first time photographed by an expe- dition of the National Geographic SO- ciety, headed by Joseph F. Rock. Not Yangtze to Chinese. “As a whole, the river is known as the Yangtze only to the western world. It has perhaps a dozen names to the Chinese at different points along its course. Only the two or three hundred miles nearest the ocean go by the name ‘Yangtze Kiang’ to the natives. The most popular names farther up are the Chinese equlva- lents of ‘The Long River’ and ‘The Great River. “The Yangtze is a west-east river fdowing in the lower temperate zone. Placed in the same latitude in Amer- lca, the stream would rise in south- western Arizona not far north of Yuma. It would cross into Texas Just east of El Paso and zigzag south- v Mexico, its southernmost point. Turning north- eastward it would then parallel the Gulf coast a few miles inland, pass- ing near Houston, New Orleans, and Pensacola, to flow into the ocean at Savannah. To duplicate actual con- ditions this imaginary American Yang- tze should, of course, have a solid block of rich territory to the south where the Gulf of Mexico lies. “On this relocated river, ocean-go- ing ships would sail 640 miles to New Orleans, the relative position of Han- kow, China’s greatest distributing cen- ter. Smaller river steamers would ascend more than 300 miles farther to Houston, the relative position of Chungking, head of steam navigation. passing en route through the famous mid-Yangtze gorges. Junks would as- cend as far as the Texas-Mexiean bor- der and beyond. “The Yangtze is the life artery of China. It drains an area of 770,000 square miles, equal to one-quarter the total area of the United States; and in this basin live approximately 175. 000,000 people—once and a half the population of our 48 states. : Natural Commercial Advantages. “At no other place in the world are three all-important economic * factors making for trade so happily asseci- ated: a broad, deep-natural waterway for ships and a teeming, civilized pop- ulation living om fertile, cultivated soil. The Yangtze, from 30 to 40 miles wide at its mouth, is a broad open door to the sea inviting the ships of the world to enter. And enter they do. Trans-shipping is unnecessary for 640 miles, ocean-going steamers ascending easily that distance te Hankow. But broad as the Yangtze is, it is crowded with traffic. The traveler finds ne break in the unending stream of steam- ers, barges, junks and sampans. And frequently he encounters one of the huge rafts of logs on each of which the crew and their families have built a little village. On these floating is- lands, pigs and chickens wander about, children play, and women hang out their wash and carry on other do- mestic duties exactly as in some Ilit- tle Chinese hamlet on dry ground. “When China was forced after the raiddle of the past century te open up interior ports to the commerce of the West, the ships of the United States, Great Britain. France, and oth- er powers entered the Yangtze. This shipping was often in danger because of uprisings and looted towns. The powers, including the United States, therefore stationed gunboats on the Yangtze to protect their interests, This is the only place in the world where the United States navy main- tains such a force on a foreign river. Since the World war this flotilla, now consisting of seven boats, has been known officially as the American ‘Yangtze patrol.’ Their cruising itin- erary takes them far up the Yangtze river. Jefferson Bible One of Nation’s Treasures The so-called Jefferson Bible is a fompilation made by Thomas Jeffer- son, consisting of passages from the four Gospels cut out and pasted in a volume according to a scheme of his own. He began the work about 1804, during his Presidency, when he bought two English Testaments and compiled a work of 46 pages. Two evenings were spent at this interesting task, at the conclusion of which the Presi- dent remarked: “A more precious mor- sel of ethics was never seen.” He intended this first abridgment for the use of the Indians, From a letter which he wrote to a friend it is learned that he was in the habit of reading from the volume every night before going to bed. About 1819 Jefferson completed the work by doing the same thing with Testaments in Greek, Latin and French. He entitled the work, “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Naz- areth.” The book contains no notes except the section of the Roman law under which Jesus was supposed to have been brought to trial. The list of passages, the title pages and the references to passages are in the hand- writing of Jefferson. Two maps, one of Palestine and another of the an- cient world, are pasted in front. The original work is in the National mu- seum, Washington.—Pathfinder Maga- vine. Thoughts of Worth Call for Expression These two forms of silence—the silence of communion and the silence of repression—spring from beautiful and sterling foundations. ‘But in them- selves they are incomplete, and indi- vidual lives, though enriched. are never fulfilled through them. Mysti- ¢ism and martyrdom must be related te living issues through expression, or they degenerate the one into in- trospective solitude, the other into narrowness of judgment, says a writer in the North American. Lives become sterile which might have been rich, had experience been translated inte ntterance. The ministration of words is indeed a blessed ministry. Because there are so many idle words, so many harmful words, so many insincere and bitter and malicious ones, we must not stumble into the mistake of believing that silence of itself has golden merit. There is the silence of indifference or self-consciousness, of carelessness or weariness; there is the lazy silence, the silence which grows from a sense of futility, or from contempt and pride. Silence, no less than inaction, may be a form of selfishness, As the laws of harmony exist without music, so may all that is fundamentally beautiful in human life exist with- out words. Birds That Live Long There is yet no reliable method by which to determine the length of nat- ural life among the wild animals and birds, says Pathfinder Magazine. Most estimates of bird longevity are based entirely on birds kept in. cap- tivity. It is supposed that vultures, eagles, hawks, crows and parrots live the longest among birds. There are many records of parrots which lived over 80 years, and a few lived over 100. There is doubtful evidence of one macaw parrot in Italy living to he 200 years old. A white-headed vulture in the zoological gardens at Vienna, Austria, lived 118 years. ‘Eagles, hawks, and crows are popu- arly supposed to live a century, but there is no substantial evidence to prove the supposition. Eider ducks are also believed to pass the century mark. Like ’Em and Tease ’Em At twenty-one a man is a musical instrument given to the other sex, but it is not as ipstruments learned at sehooul, for when she sits down to it ~he cannot tell what tune she is about to play. That Is because she has no notion of what the instrument is ea- pable. Babbie’s kind-heartedness, her gaiety, her coguetry, her moments of sadness, had been a witch's fin- gers, and Gavin was still trembling under their touch. Even in being taken to task by her there was a charm, for every peut of her mouth, every shake of her head, said: “You like me, and therefore you have given nme the right te tease you.” Men sign these agreements without reading them. But indeed, man is a stupid animal at the best, and thinks all his tife that he did net propose until he blurted out : ‘I love you.”—J. M. Barrie. The Wedding Fee Nedding fees are to a minister's ' ramily what peanuts are to a monkey. Only the monkey translates the pea- ' nuts into energy, while the rector’s family translates wedding fees into the most joyous and exciting things! Curtains for the parlor, porch swings, ice cream for Sunday dinner, a real new hat for mother and a pair of silk stockings for the family jointly, a new tire for the auto, and on one occasion false teeth, so long needed, for the rector himself. All They Wanted in an Edinburgh shop two young women asked to be shown a selection of tartan cloths, and the assistant turned out bale after bale, naming each tartan as he went along. *0f course we don’t want to buy «ny tartan,” they explained honestly enough, in the end, “but we're going to buy a pack of playing cards with tartan backs, and we're just wanting to find out which was the prettiest!” ' OLD KAISERHOF IS DOOMED TO GO! Famous Hostelry to Become Office Building. Berlin. — The German government: has decided to purchase the historie, Kaiserhof hotel on Wilhelmstrasse and: to convert it into an office building. | Berlin society thereby is greatly: disturbed, and from every quarter: protests are descending upon the min- istry of finance. Parliament is being’ bombarded with pleas to veto the ar-, rangement. Many Berliners feel that’ one of the chief connecting links be-! tween the old and the new Germany: would thus be destroyed. The Kaiserhof during the fifty years of its existence has been the scenei of some of the most brilliant functions: under the imperial regime. Here the weddings of the smart set were held. Whenever a large festival took place! at court, to which potentates came! from foreign countries, some of the guests were lodged in the Kaiserhof,! as the acommodations at the royal! palaces were limited. For mé#ny' years Prince von Bulow, former chan- cellor, was its star guest. The emperor's brother, Prince Hen-' ry, the grand duke of Hesse and many’ other royal personages lived at the Kaiserhof, and among those who paid: them formal visits were Czar Nicholas of Russia and King George and Queer Mary of England, Among historic occasions were the arrival of the Boer generals, De Wet,. Botha and Delare, after the defeat of the Boer armies in South Africa in 1901; the dinner arranged in honor of Count Waldersee and the other officers who served against the Boxers in China, in 1900, and the benefit bazaar, held under the protectorate of Em- press Auguste Victoria in 1900. The Kaiserhof, the first really mod-' ern and luxurious hotel to be erected. in Berlin, so impressed the aged first German emperor, William I, that he remarked to his brother, Prince Karl, “That’s better than anything we can afford.” SOUTHERN BEAUTY ' Miss Fannie Dia!, daughter of the, former senator from South Carolina. and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial, will make her debut to society in Wash- ington this winter. Teras Banker Plans Gulf Bird Paradise Corpus Christi, Texas.—St. Joseph's island, in the bay off Corpus Christi, is to become the home of one of the greatest private bird preserves in the country. Thousands of the winged creatures are to be nested on the island under a plan promulgated by T. O. Frost San Antonio banker and sportsman. Frost and associates have pur- chased the island outright. - A large number of quail already have been stocked on the preserve, and other : members of the game winged family’ are to be placed thereon for conserve tion purposes. Under the Frost plan, St. Joseph's island will outrival in bird tenantry the qualities of Bird island, about which much has been written. No ex- pense is to be spared in making the preserve complete for the future care of the feathered guests. The island will be a mecca for students of bird lore. “Plug in” Telephone Flirts on Police Board Boston.—Many of the tele phone calls answered by the Fields Corner station of the Bos- ton police department recently have been inquiries for “Gladys,” or “Ida” or “Helen.” For a long time Officer Wil- liamson, who handles the out- side calls in addition to his du- ties at the police box tape, was nonplussed by the frequent queries for the girls and called in vain on his thirty-odd years of sleuthing to solve the mys- tery. Then one of the Dorchester telephone operators volunteered an answer. To rid themselves of persistent flirts, who insist on securing their home tele- phone number, the flappers, Gladys, or Ida or Helen and others . give . the inquisitive Johnny the police station num- ber and have the last laugh. ’ BE SURE OF A MERRY CHRISTMAS BY JOINING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOL- LOWING CLASSES CLASS 25 Members paying 25 cents a week for fifty weeks will receive..... 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