im —
Bellefonte, Pa., January
28, 1927.
Musician Found Much
of Interest on Tour
To go on a concert tour lasting for
five years is in itself something of an
achievement, but when it embraces
not only the temperate and torrid
zones but the frigid zone as well, the
achievement verges upon the phenom
enal.
And yet Laszio Schwartz, well
known as a violinist and composer in
this country, has come back to these
shores with much music of interest
which. he has gathered during his
travels.
“In the Fiji islands,” Mr. Schwartz
related, “the heat is terrible. Com-
bined with the dampness it is death
and destruction to musical instru-
ments. I asked how the piano was
and was told ‘We are airing it!’
“The day of our first concert, the
goundpost of my violin came unglued
and nothing would make it stick. I
tried everything I could think of, but
to no avail, so I simply had to tell
them that there would be a concer*
but no violin.
“Sumaira seemed to be the hottest
place in the world. A violin will go to
pleces there any time. I had to play
with clamps on mine to keep it to-
gether, which, you may imagine, did
not improve the tone.
“In the Fiji islands we heard a
native chorus of 600 with the most
marvelous basses I have ever heard
anywhere. They have an amazing
sense of harmony, like the American
negro, but much more-intricate. They
learn tunes from a phonograph, and
then harmonize themselves. They
were learning the Tannhaeuser over-
ture while I was there, each member
of the band memorizing harmonie?
from the phonograph.
“I was asked by a rich native how
much my charges were for a concert
and when I told him the next
question was: ‘How long will the con-
cert be? ‘About an hour,’ I said. ‘Oh!’
he replied. ‘But I can hire a man who
will play for four hours for that
amount without taking his bow off
the strings!” "—John Alan Haughton
in Musical America.
Fish Travel Far to
. Escape From Storms
‘That! fish are capable of swimming
hundreds of miles seeking refuge
from storms has been proved in the
waters -of St. Andrew’s bay, at Pan-
ama City, Fla, according to a dis-
patch from that place. Some of the
bocal fishermen returned with an
enormous catch of a kind of mullet
that is never seen in these waters.
Its habitat is the gulf of Mexico off
the southernmost shores of the West
coast, a distance of 300 or 400 miles.
Large-schools of various kinds of fish
foreign to this district have been
seen in the gulf outside the city
fn the last few days swimming in this
direction, in an apparently exhausted
eondition. Another Interesting oc-
currence, but one which preceded the
storm, in this section, was the fact
that hundreds of thousands of gulls
flew into the harbor and its connecting
bayous for several days prior to that
event.
Rare Bird Specimens
Despite all the search made for
them in the past, not a single mu-
seum on earth has on exhibition a
specimen of the wandering albatross
or of the giant man-o’-war bird, that
strange specimen from the Ascension
islands, but the Blossom expedition,
sent out by the Cleveland museum,
bas returned with about 25 specimens
of each, will have all the specimens
mounted with care and expects to ex-
¢hange the surplus birds for others
of interest in making distribution
among the various museums of this
and other countries.
Surgery Above Medicine?
An old medical man I know says
doctors are not much needed, except
surgeons. (And this man is not a sur-
geon.) He further says that nine out
of ten cases of illness are due to im-
proper diet, and might be cured by
fasting and less and more proper
food thereafter. “The few wonders
in my profession,” the doctor says,
“are accomplished not with medicine,
but with surgery."—E. W. Howe's
‘Monthly.
Good Artificial Milk
Artificial milk, which is asserted to
‘possess all the qualities of fresh
cow's milk, Is te be manufactured
in Denmark. The product is said
not to be merely a substitute for milk
as the real butter fat is replaced by
‘vegetable fats and the addition of
vitamine gives it character of fresk
milk,
Egyptians First Surveyors
The art of land surveying owes its
origin to the fact that the Egyptians
were unable to keep permanent monu-
ments on land which was overflowed
every year by the Nile. Under such
¢ircumstances it became necessary to
have some means of reidentifying the
various pieces of land.
Wifely Wails
“I've been: wearing the same hat
for two years”—“The gas man called
put I didn’t dare give him a check
‘cause ¥ didn't know how much we had
in the bank”—“I've called you five
times; you're gonna be late for work.”
INDIAN RED BUGS
RICHLY ENDOWED
Wealthy Banker Leaves $100,-
000 for Rest Homes.
Allahabad, India.—One hundred
thousand dollars for a home of rest’
for bugs (the irritating Indian red
bug) is the strange legacy left by a’
Marwari banker millionaire named
Soth Buddhimai, who died recently ir
Sihori state, central India.
Soth Buddhimali set aside a quarter
of a million rupees (which is roughly
$100,000 real money) for the building
and maintenance of three resthouses
In Sihori state, in each of which a
special room is to be set aside for the
preservation of red bugs.
The red bug is a well known Indian
pest, encroaching everywhere in rail-
roads, trolley cars, automobiles, houses,
and, in fact, wherever human feet
tread, the bug creeps in to disturb the
peace and quiet of the evenings. The
Sthori banker demanded that in the
red bug rooms at his resthouses, poor
travelers should be paid for the “serv-
ice” of sleeping in them at the rate o*
roughly $1 per two hours.
There is of course a catch in this.
If at any time a poor unfortunate bug
be found dead, through the uncon-
scious squirming of the paid victim,
or otherwise, the traveler loses hi»
dollar.
There are at present some 250 “red
bug rooms” in the resthouses cf Rajpu-
tana state, but the occupants thereof
sre not paid for the privilege of their
compuny. They are more or less
“quarantined” for the benefit of the
non-infested travelers who use the
resthouses. But while it has been a
long standing custom to provide “bug
rooms” for resthouses, no such valu-
able legacy has been left for many
vears in this part of India, and cer-
tainly no such legacy which seeming-
ly considers the feelings of the bugs.
Believe Rich Copper
Vein Found in Canada
Timmins, Ont.—Interest is running
at fever heat over the first geological
report of what may be the biggest
copper strike ever made in the north
country in the Kamiskotia lake gold
area.
“Anything from 60 cents to $30,000,
400” was the only declaration of pos-
sible wealth George Scott, geologist,
would give. “It may be worth a for-
tune and may be a washout.”
Mr. Scott accompanied Georges
Jamieson, prospector, to the district
and made a survey of the vein. Com-
paring it with the Flin Flon and
Horne camps, Mr. Scott said in his
opinion the Kamiskotia find appeared
to have better prospects. “Every new
discovery of sulphides in the area, no
matter how small, will be of unusual
interest,” states the geologist.
He has been in and out of the Kam:
iskotia lake area three times within
the last few weeks, and on his second
trip he would have staked a claim on
his own behalf in Jamieson township
if he had been able to persuade the
men accompanying him to- cross the
Mattagami river on an improvised
raft.
London Fog Changes;
Even Taste Altered!
1.ondon.—London's fog has lost its
individuality and some of its taste.
Time, or something, seems to have
worn the edge clear off of it.
Dickens, who so delightfully de
scribed the London mist, would be
disappointed were he to see one to-
day. He would not recognize the
modern fog any more than he would
know the narrow streets which David
Copperfield so often trod.
The same old streets wind about in
he same old way, but many of them
have been widened. This may have
something to do with the changing
fog. which is not so impenetrable as
formerly, but the scientists disagree
about the vapor’s transformation and
its causes.
At any rate, the wider streets are
Jow more easily negotiated even when
a fog is at its height. And the old-
timers are quite positive that the fog
of today tastes much different to that
served in the days of Victoria.
War on Prairie Dog
Is Finally Victorious
Hot Springs, S. D.—The prairie
dog, which since pioneer days
had roamed the South Dakota
prairies, has suffered the fate of
the buffale and the rattlesnake
in the war of extermination in
this section of the state. In
Fall River county the war of ex-
termination against the rodents
is considered practically at an
end.
As late as ten years ago the
prairie dogs were appallingly
numerous. When the campaign
to exterminate the animals be-
gan, it appeared that the task
was a fruitless one. Not only
were the rodents discouragingly
prolific, but farmers were skep-
tical or indifferent on the battle
of extermination.
Year by year, however, the
campaign continued, concentrat-
ing on the more infested dis
tricts. Farmers in recent years
have co-operated in the cam-
paign and many have conducted
individual extermination work.
Today the prairie dog has be
come more or less a rare sight in
¢
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ANCIENT TOMB NEAR
ALGIERS AWES ARABS
Antedates Christianity by
at Least Two Centuries.
Paris.—A mysterious tomb, regarded
with awe by the lowly Arabs of the
region, stands on the crest of a lofty
hill, about fifty miles from Algiers.
It is known as Le Tombeau de la
Chretienne, the tomb of the Christian
woman, although French scholars re-
gard it, without proof, as a Punic
structure antedating the Christian era
by at least two centuries.
So little is actually known of this
mausoleum that small wonder is occa-
sioned by tlee fantastic legend handed
down about it in truly Oriental style
throughout the countryside. The
Arabs themselves call it Khour Er-
Roumia, which means European or
Christian tombs, the use of the plural
suggesting that they regarded it as a
multiple tomb. Even their legend
throws little light on the origin of the
strange edifice.
The mystery that hangs about it is
deepened by current Arab legends,
which imply the fixed belief that much
undiscovered treasure lies buried in-
side.
At the top of the hill which rises a
chousand feet above the Mediter-
ranean, this extraordinary relic of an.
tiquity rears itself an additional 100
feet. The structure is a circular mass
of dressed stone, at least 200 feet in
diameter.
Sculptured Columns.
Sixty engaged columns, sculpturea
.n relief and resembling the Ionic in
style, decorate the lower circumfer-
ence of the tambour, a drum-shaped
edifice, originally surmounted by 8
lofty cone of rock. At the four car
dinal points of the compass huge false
portals are sculptured. A design on
each of them, resembling a great cross,
is responsible for the present French
name of the ruin.
Tn an effort to discover the treasur.
.wo small tunnels were long ago dug
through the center. On one side near
the summit Is a-considerable depres
sion made by Baba Mohammed Ben
Othman, pasha of Algeria, in 1776,
when he used cannon to demolish the
tomb. The French government has
now put a stop to the work of treasure
hunters and other vandals, and some
years ago restored one of the princi
pal facades.
¥ntrance is possible through a low
and very narrow passage which earlier
excavations revealed in the substrue-
ture beneath one of the false portals,
that facing the east. This entrance
leads to a fairly spacious vaulted
chamber whose solid stone masoned
walls had apparently never borne dec-
orations. But the right-hand wall has
small relief sculptures of a lion and
lioness.
Directly underneath these bas-re
Jgefs another short, constricted pas.
sage, which has to be traversed on
hands and knees, leads to seven as
cending steps and then into a spacious
and beautifully vaulted gallery built
of large: blocks of neatly dressed
stone. This gallery, spiral In form, is
more than 400 feet long. At the end g
third passage leads first into a small
chamber and then into a larger one,
This was supposed, until recently. to
be the exact center of the monu-
ment, but it is now known that it is
somewhat off center, whether through
aceident or design has not been deter-
mined.
Place for Cinerary Urns.
I'he purpose of the chambers is also
fn doubt. Nothing has been found in
then or in the spiral gallery. It may
be supposed that the first was a vesti.
bule to the second, in which three
niches are sunk in the bare walls. [It
is a further guess that the niches were
intended to hold cinerary urns. [It is
possible that these supposed mortuary
chambers are blinds, like the four por-
tals. and that the real vaults are deep
in the foundations, approached by
vertical shafts with horizontal pas-
sizes at the bottom.
This manner of entombing the dead
rlling up and disguising the shafts,
after each interment, corresponds with
the Phoenician and Punic practices of
antiquity. If this supposition be true,
the tomb still guards its secret, and
the local Arabic tradition of the mul-
tiple tomb is not without meaning.
I'he builder, whoever he may have
oeen, chose well the site or his last
resting place. To the north, a thou:
sand feet below, stretches the waters
of the Mediterranean; to the south,
long green slopes reach into the fruit-
ful valley of the Mitidja. Along the
southern horizon the cedar bearing
Atlas mountains rear their purple
wall, from which clear streams de-
scend to make the valley prosperous.
find Tree Stump in
Process of Petrificatior.
Bethany, Mo.—Workmen with a rail
:0ad construction crew from St. Jo-
seph, working on the Burlington rafl-
road right of way near this city, un.
earthed a red oak stump in the process
of petrification. The stump, which
measured about two and one-half feet
through, is believed to have been
buried in the fill for almost fifty years,
or ever since the rallroad was built.
Its removal required four days. It
showed no signs of decay and was so
tough it could not be split with an ax
World’s Richest Girl
Somerville, N. J.—Fifteen-year-old
Doris Duke, probably the richest girl
of her age in the world, is worth $53,
451,089, it is shown in an accounting
of the estate of her father, James
Ruchanan Duke, tobacco magnate,
| LOST FORTUNES |
LYING IN BANKS
Owners and Heirs Are Difficul*
to Find.
New York.—A neat fortune in un-
claimed savings lies in the vaults of
New York banks awaiting trace of de-
positors.
The pennies of “floaters” the world
over, from diverging sources and in
varying amounts, add to the total
which, in one bank alone, has climbed
to six figures.
Hundreds of depositors have vis-
ited banks never to return. They
have left their savings and gone, pos-
sibly to death, without leaving record
of their moves.
Owners and heirs to this fortune
are hard to find, says Herbert K.
Twitchell, president of the Seaman’s
Bank for Savings, which, in 100 years
of business, has 2,536 dormant ac-
counts totaling $296,938.67. The task,
however, is a never-ending one and
through a department, instituted for
the purpose, constant search is made
and every possibility of a claimant
exhausted.
The Seaman’s bank is one of many
which have similar accounts whose
depositors have not been heard of in
20 years or more. After this lapse
the accounts become “legally dor-
mant,” interest no longer is paid and
the banks have use of the money, bur
not for individual gain.
Up the winding Bowery, in the twi-
light of the elevated, wander ageless
Chinese, men of bearded styles, hat-
less foreign women, pale, old-faced
children. Such is the clintele of the
Bowery Savings bank where the dor
mant accounts total $100,000.
Once in this parade, said a bank
official, was Mary Ellin, a quaint old
char-woman, seventy years old. She
had forgotten some of her accounts
and was found to have $12,000 de-
posited with the bank under four di*
ferent names.
Science May Open Up
Fuel Fields of West
Washington. — Extensive lignite
fields west of the Mississippi, an area
now largely coal importing, may be
made commercially productive as fuel
by a cheap, carbonizing process deve’
oped by the bureau of mines.
The Department of Commerce dis-
closed in a statement that the bureau
has perfected a method of carbonizing
raw lignite into briquetted char fuel
and the product is believed capable of
meeting industrial demands.
Lignite deposits make up nearly
one-third of the total solid fuel re-
sources of the country, but as it is
mined has insufficient heat units to
make its wide use practicable. If the
bureau's new process is applied, it is
held Western regions now importing
coal may be able to utilize the pros.
uct of their own areas.
Extensive lignite fields lie in North
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
and Texas. The Commerce depart-
ment views these deposits of such
enormous potential economic value as
is seldom recognized. Up to the pres-
ent the relatively cheap rates on
transporting Eastern coal via
of the full possibilities of lignite.
Find Bronze-Age
Bones in Thames Bed
London.—Skulls and bones of what
are believed to have been lake-dwell-
ers of the Bronze age, approximately
2000 B. C., have been found in the bed
of the Thames at Sunbury, and Sir
Arthur Keith, famous anthropologist
pronounces them at least 4,000 years
old.
The bones were found about twenty
feet below the river bed while excava-
tions were being made for the con-
struction of a new lock, and they con-
sist of a woman's skull; thighbone of
a woman about five feet one inch in
height; man's left shinbone, and man’s
right armbone.
The shinbone Is flattened with what
the scientists call the ‘“squatter’s
facet,” showing the man passed mur"
of his time in a crouching position.
Bones of oxen, horses, pigs and red
deer also were found, as well as sir
antlers.
Sir Arthur says the human bones
doubtless were those of the lake, or
pile, dwellers of the Celtic pre-Roman
race of the late Neolithic or early
Bronze age.
Panama Tolls
Panama.—Vessels passing through
the Panama canal during 1926 paid
tolls the aggregate of which is second
only to the record year of 1924. The
total for the year just closed was $23,-
901,540.
Bad Times Silence Song
of the Volga Boatmen
Astrakhan, Russia. — “The
Song of the Volga Boatmen” is
no longer heard along the great
river, where it originated. For-
merly the Volga was a stream
of romance and laughter, cov-
ered with fleets of pleasure and
cargo boats, but ten years of
war, famine and revolution
have changed all that. The
caviar and fishing Industries
have suffered grievously and
the hundreds of thousands of vil-
lagers who formerly drew their
life from the river have turned
to farming and other pursuits.
the |
Great Lakes has retarded development |
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ETENTION of bodily waste in
the blood is called a “toxic con-
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dull, languid feeling and, sometimes;
toxic backaches and headaches. That
the kidneys are not functioning prop«
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scanty passage of secretions. Thou-
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Whether they be fresh,
smoked or the cold-ready to
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market.
The Tramp isn’t So Common a Sight
in the Small Towns as he Used to be,
What with Food so High and village
cops Hardboileder than Ever. Time
was when he could Panhandle a Feed
and a Shot of Hootch in an Hour and
Spend the Day Pleasantly Snoozing
down by the Water Tank, but not No
More.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
We buy nothing but prime
stock on the hoof, kill and re-
frigerate it ourselves and we
know it is good because we
have had years of experience
in handling meat products.
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