Dewalt.
Rellefonte. Pa., April 29, 1927.
NEW WELLAND CANAL
WILL FREE ONTARIO
“Cinderella of Lakes” to
Take on New Life.
Toronto, Ont.—Lake Ontario, the
€inderella of inland seas, rejoices in
the prospect of an early emancipation
‘by the opening of the new Welland
canal,
In every port on the great lakes
shipping men and others are discuss-
ing what will happen In the new era
to be inaugurated by the canal, which
in some respects rivals Panama. There
.#8 much difference of opinion, but
‘whatever happens will be an improve-
apent for the ports located on Lake
Ontario.
Here is one of the finest bodies of
water in the world, 200 miles long by
40 wide. Surrounded on all sides by
rich country and teeming cities, it
ought to be alive with commerce. But
the ordinary view of Lake Ontario is
as lifeless as the picture of the “paint
ed ship upon a painted ocean.”
Imprisoned by Falls, Rapids.
Nature played a mean trick on Lake
Ontario. It made her the connecting
Mink between two of the most famous
rivers in the world—the Niagara and
the St. Lawrence—but the falls of
Niagara and the rapids of the St.
Lawrence, which millions of. people
have come from the ends of the earth
to see, have isolated and imprisoned
©ntario.
Great ocean liners come up the St.
Lawrence to Montreal and stop. Great
liners of the inland seas cruise Supe-
rior, Huron, Michigan and Erie, but
they stop when they approach the
mouth of the Niagara river.
It is true both the Niagara and the
St. Lawrence have been canalized, but
the ships than can be accommodated
are small and the trips through the
Yocks tiresome.
The new Welland canal will be rev-
olutionary in its capacity. Instead of
a draft of 12 or 14 feet it will pro-
vide a draft of 25 feet, which can be
deepened to 30 feet. Instead of 27
locks, it will have only 7 locks, and 3
of these will be double locks in flight,
enabling boats to ascend and descend.
Instead of 12 to 18 hours now re-
quired to get through the canal the
passage wil be made in 8 hours or
less. Ships of 12,000 tons, good-sized
acean liners, will be able to make the
Niagara detour with ease.
Ontario Ports Looking Up.
© A great milling industry has grown
ap. at Buffalo, N. Y. and Port Col-
borne, Ont.,, because all the larger
grain ships from the head of the lakes
were stopped by: Niagara. Now all
the ports at the eastern end of Lake
Ontario are getting ready to capture
or at least share in’ this trade, ‘The
large boats will be able to get down
the St. Lawrence as far as Prescott,
Ont.,, and Ogdensburg, N. Y., but as
the channel through the Thousand is-
lands is tricky the ports of Kingston,
Ont, and Oswego, N. Y., are more
generally favored. Kingston, one of
the most ancient cities in Canada, is
preparing for a great revival.
Montreal also hopes to benefit.
Kreight rates” for the all-Canadian
rpute will, it is hoped, be lowered
¢fhrough as to this there is some
doubt) and Montreal will be able to
compete on more favorable terms with
the Atlantic American ports. In any
case, Montreal hopes to become a
great milling center.
Toronto, in anticipation of the ca-
nals, has spent $20,000,000 on a har-
bor development and even if the
achievement of ocean port status is
delayed it hopes by more accessible
coal and ore supplies to establish on
tis harbor front large new industries.
By the end of the present season
80 per cent of the new Welland canal
undertaking will be completed. By
1930 at the latest it will be ready for
traffic.
The cost will be well ‘under $100,-
@00,000. : :
Ore Eye Her Oculist
>» Son Could Not Help
Fhe oculist had a joke the other
morning. Every now and then he
smiled; quieily to himself. “You know,”
he said finally to the Woman, “moth-
ers are woaderful people. They always
believe there is nobody quite so clever
a8. their own children.
“Now, my mother, for instance,
thinks 1 know everything about eyes.
She doesn’t confine her boasting to the
neighbors, either. She is just as like-
ky as not to walk up to a nearsighted
or crosseyed passenger in the subway
and tell him his eyes need attention
and that her son is the best oculist in
New York. She says that isn’t hunt-
img business for me; it’s helping
people .who don’t know enough to looi
after thelr sight, But the joke is on
her.
“Yesterday she. met a man who I8
distinctly and painfully ‘wall-eyed.’
“You mustn't let your eyes go like
that,’ she told him, immediately the in-
troductions were made. ‘My son can
do anything with eyes. Why don’t
you go to see him? ‘I'm afraid he
can’t do anything with this eye, mad-
am, answered the object of her so-
Hecitude; ‘you see, it's a glass one.’ "=
New York Sun.
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Success Credited to
Exactions of Poverty
Boys who have grown into success-
ful men will, as a rule, say that the
greatest asset and blessing they en-
joyed was the exactions of poverty,
the struggles they had to make
through which they kept their appe-
tites in check, in keeping with their
earnings; that frugality was necessary
because they had to make ends meet.
had to pay for their keep and could
only have what they were able to buy
after contributing to thelr families or
relatives. They will say that the self-
denials they made for others were the
most valuable lessons on the road to
success, and that the practices forced
upon them by necessity lasted through
their business careers and made suc-
cess possible, It is hard for the boy
who earns a dollar a week to give
part of it for his keep—but there is
more in it than the mere contribu-
tions of the money. The boy is learn-
ing—learning everything worth while.
Poor is the boy who is denied this
part of his education, it matters not
how great his money riches.—Macor
(Ga.) Telegraph.
Fool Friends Scored
by Great Naturalist
Luther Burbank preferred his gar-
den experiments to business ventures,
but the activities of his friends suc-
ceeded in embroiling him in business
relations with various people for more
than twenty years. His business ven-
tures not only turned out badly, but
they took considerable time from his
creative work. :
“I do not believe any of the men
who tried to exploit or subsidize me
or my work had base motives,” he
wrote in the Saturday Evening Post.
“On the contrary, most of them were
actuated by a desire to increase my
usefulness and to widen the scope of
my experiments and to broadcast the
results over a greater area.
“I would rather have five energetic
and competent enemies than one fool
friend; now and again my friends
have led me astray, and it has cost
me a lot of money, a world of trouble
and a multitude of worries before I
got back on the main track again.”
“Ghost Money”
“Money” and other articles made
out of tinfoil, and intended for the
special use of departed spirits, pro-
vides the town of Shaoching, China,
with a curious and profitable indus
try.
All day long the din of thousands
of hammers pounding on anvils can
be heard, and the production of these
symbols for departed spirits is said
to bring in £3,000.000 a year.
The symbolic money is made by
hand, the tin being hammered out on
anvils until a surprising thinness is
obtained. Although the “money” fs
) Apr the use of ‘the dead.
there is considerable traffic ‘in the
ashes of the fires burnt at the tombs
where the “money” 18 placed. The
tin is extracted from the ashes and
used again to make more “money.”
London Tit-Bits. :
Sugar Cane in America
Sugar cane was introduced into the
New world shortly after its discovery.
and it is recorded that in 1518 many
sugar mills .were in operation on the
Island of Santo Domingo. It was not
until 1751, however, that the plant was
grown in continental America, as a re-
sult of the importation of cuttings by
Jesuits in Louisiana. From that time
it was cultivated in a desultory man-
ner until! the end of the Eighteenth
century, when the failure of indigo
and other crops forced the Louisiana
planters to turn their attention to the
manufacture of sugar as a source of
revenue. Establishment of the Amer-
ican sugar cane industry may be said
to date from 1795. when the first sue-
cessful mill began operations on a
plantation about six miles from New
Orleans.
Odd Butterfly
Perhaps one of the most remarkable
nstances of camouflage is that of the
“Green Hairstreak™ butterfly. The
upper surface of the wings are black-
ish-brown ; the undersides an intensely
vivid leaf-green.
i butterfly invariably folds the
#ings close upwards when resting.
Consequently the green hairstreak,
conspicuons enough among the hedges,
has only to alight upon a green leaf
for his green undersurface to render
him instantly invisible.—Nature Mag:
azine.
Order Was Placed
fhe teacher of the kindergarten
sunday school class was asking each
member if there was a little brother:
or sister at home who might seon be
eligible for admission to the class. One
little boy, as he heard the proud re
sponses of the children in front of
him, felt that he was rapidly lesing
caste.
No, ma'am,” he admitted reluetant-
ty, then added in sudden desperation,
“But we're going to get one!”
The Orly Girl
Jack had just asked Jill to marry
aim, and she had murmured, “Yes.”
“Jack, dear,” asked Jill, after a long
silence, “am I the onty giri—"
“Jill, darling,” he interrupted, “don’t
ask me if you are the only girl I
have ever loved. You know it as well
as I do.” ;
“That wasn't the question at all,
fack,” she answered. “I was just go-
ing to azk you if I was the only girl
woo would have you”
Ye
PLANNING TO PUT
VOLCANO TO WORK
Scientists Seek Method of
Harnessing Crater.
Not so many years ago the people
of Iceland conceived the idea of har-
nessing the famous hot springs which
abound In that ceuntry and, by means
of pipes, conveying the hot water to
their homes for heating and domestir
purposes.
The wise men of Naples, Italy, are
seeking for some method of impress-
ing the volcano, Little Vesuvius, into
service, and utilizing {its heat fo~
train car operation.
For 800 years the crater at Pozzuoli
was considered extinct. A few years
ago It awakened, and two volcanic
cauldrons opened at the crater base,
while more recently an eruptive mouth
appeared.
Men of science consider that if the
forces, heat and electricity, at this
point were controlled by a power
plant, it would be possible not only to
provide sufficient electricity for the
supply of the surrounding towns. bnt
for Naples as well.
The great difficulty is in finding a
piping which can resist the corroding
power of the hydrosulphides and sul-
phuric dioxide of the soil near the vo!
canic mouth,
The commune of Naples had a huge
fron pipe sunk, but after a short time
it was entirely destroyed by the ac-
tion of these gases. Later a smaller
pipe of white metal was used, but this
too, corroded.
So far it has not been possible to
find a piping which lasts more than =
few weeks, after being sunk.
The Solfatara, ever since Roman
times, has been celebrated for its cura-
tive properties.
In Roman days its baths were fa.
mous and today remains of them can
be seen in the hillside.
Since the war the sulphurous vapors
from the different apertures have
brought health to many ex-soldiers
suffering from lung trouble,
Ouring the past five years vast
quantities of kaolin have been taken
from the crater basin, for the Neapoli-
tan industry of chalk statuettes.
It was this extensive digging which
caused the ground to cave in, when a
volcanic cauldron of lava mud made
its appearance. 1
A small observatory was erected. in
order that the crater could be studied.
The volcano was given the name of
“Little Vesuvius,” though it is miles
away from Mount Vesuvius, and situ-
ated on the other side of Naples.
Jixperts consider the Pozzuoli crater
as far more wonderful than Vesuvius
itself.
The heat generated by the mud
cauldron is 100 degrees hotter than
boiling water, and is thus capable of
generating power for electrical. pur-
poses,” TL CZ Te El
“ts vapors also carry a positive
charge of electricity. :
The only recorded eruption of lava
rom Solfatara is one of doubtful au-
thenticity aseribed to the year 1198.
Early Life Insurance
Originally life insurance was not
much more than an incident of ma-
rine insurance. When the success or
failure of a voyage depended largely
on the personal qualities of the mas-
ter of the ship. the owners of ship and
cargo would insure themselves not
only against the perils of deep. but
also against the aanger of loss
through the death of the master—that
is, they took out insurance on the life
of the master for the voyage. These
early life insurance policies were writ-
ten by individuals long before life in-
surance companies came into exist-
ence. The earliest policy of which
anything definite is known was Is-
sued in London in 1583, insuring the
life of one William Cybbons for 12
months. This was underwritten by 13
persons acting individually; the pre-
minum was $80 per thousand. A simi-
lar policy would cost today about $10
at age thirty-five.
Storms and Headaches
Each of us is carrying through life
un enormous weight in the form of the
pressure of the outside atmosphere
upon our bodies. We don’t, it is true,
notice ft, because inside our bodies
is another pressure’(in: our blood, and
so forth) which exactly balances the
outside pressure.
Were it not for this equalizing pres-
sure, we should experience grave dis-
comfort Just as do mountain explorers
who go to great heights where the
air Is “thinner.”
* Roughly speaking, this Is generally
what causes many people trouble in a
thunderstorm. The atmospheric pres-
sure alters suddenly and disturbs the
balance, with the result that the ar-
teries swell up and probably affect
the brain and nerve centers, causing
a headache.
Sun and Fire Symbols
rhere are to be found occasionally
apon the walls of old brick houses,
at about the line of division between
the first and second stories, flat pieces
of iron 5 or 6 inches in length and
shaped somewhat like the letter “S.”
The use of these articles was clear-
ly brought from England, where it is
still continued, and there is a curious
origin and meaning attached to them.
The figure In question is an early
svmbol of the sun. It is still used in
Herefordshire and other parts of Eng-
land. ‘There one is informed that the
reason for the particular form of these
frons is that they were made thus in
order to protect the house from fire
as well as from collapse:
London was a mere handful of 50,000
MOTHER’S DAY MEDITATION.
In one of the great churches in
Paris there is an altar and over the
altar is the figure of a woman with
a babe in her arms standing on the
world, and under her feet lies a crush-
ed and bleeding serpent. The power
which crushes evil and becomes the
hope of the world lies in consecrated
motherhood. In the formative period
of France’s history, when the future
seemed uncertain and insecure, Na-
poleon cried: “What France needs is
mothers.” Civilization will always
owe an enormous debt to that man or
woman in whose life’s career is ex-
pressed a mother’s dreams and ideals.
As we wrestle with the responsible
tasks ‘of our life’s work, it is a moth-
er’s soul which rises to meet us and
with whom we keep companionship.
It is her soul we would interpret. The
most wonderful thing in the world is
a mother sending forth her child into
the world with high ideals burning
like beacon lights in his heart. The
destinies of civilization rest very
largely in the hands of motherhood.
On Mothers’ Day our minds espe-
cially return to the old home. We are
reminded of the secret of the home
life. We live over again the days of
our childhood. In memory of the
mother who made that home what it
was we wear today either the red or
white carnation. We should not be
ashamed to do it. . We should do it
with the spirit of pride. Whistler was
not ashamed of his mother. He paint-
ed her in a picture everybody admires.
Kipling was not ashamed of his moth-
er. He wrote in her memory that
beautiful poem, “O, Mother of Mine!”
It is said that upon the occasion of
his inaugural exercises, President Mc-
Kinley, in the presence of a large
number of people, went over to where
his mother was sitting and kissed her.
Our opportunities are made possible
because some mother suffered, and
prayed. She toiled many times when
we slept. Her hands were soiled with
work when ours were soft. She sac-
rificed that we might live. There are
different kinds of love in the world,
but there is nothing that can compare
with or take the place of the sacrificial
love of a mother.
Find Ample Proof of
Elephants in America
Scientists interested in the prehis-
toric animals that roamed the North
American continent in times too re-
mote to calculate offhand have pow
and then resurrected from their beds
of rock and debris the skeletons of
mammoths and mastodons, those
strange creatures akin to the elephant.
That the elephant species was known
to the civilizations of Central Amer-
fca not so many thousands of years
ago seems to be proved cobelusively
by recent excavations made in Pan-
ama. A. Hyatt Verrill, writing in
World's Work, describes the strange
sculptures of an ancient people, dug
up from the volcanic soil of the little
isthmian republic showing the degree
of artistic advancement achieved by
that vanished race.
Perhaps the most interesting and re-
markable find of all, writes Mr. Ver-
rill, was a large sculptured stone fig-
ure thoroughly elephantine in form
and detail... Hitherto ithe “so-called,
“elephants” found In prehistoric €and
modern) American ceramics and stone
work have been generally accepted as
conventionalized antbears or tapirs
with exaggerated snouts. But im this
case It is scarcely possible to account
for the creature on this hypothesis.
Not only is the body elephantine, but
the large leaf-like ears could belong
to no other known creature, while the
hind knees bend forward, a character
peculiar to the elephant. It is dificult
to believe that any man unfamiliar
with the elephant could have conven:
tionalized a tapir or an anthear to the
extent of adding broad fan-shaped ears
and legs bending forward, while
a final touch. the creature is repre.
sented carrying a load or burden upn
its back.
London Fogs
Those Londoners who speak of the
present-day white mists and darkened
skies as fogs are very young. In 1881
the fog was so thick during cattle
show week that several cattle were
‘suffocated by it at the Agricultural
hall. A really long fog was the one
which began in November, 1879, and
lasted until February, 1880. Incident-
ally, it sent up the death rate 48 per
thousand. And we cannot blame our
victorian forefathers for our’ fogs,
either. As long ago as 1306, when
inhabitants, the city’s fog problem
loomed so large that the sin of burn-
ing smoke-producing coal was punish-
able with death.—London Daily Mail
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——Ladies vici kid oxfords guar-
anteed to wear or a new pair will be
given. Only $2.85. Yeagers Tiny
Boot Shop. 17-1t
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Too Much
“Acid?” a
Excess Uric Acid Gives Rise to Many
Unpleasant Troubles.
UTHORITIES agree that an ex-
cess of uric acid is primarily
due to faulty kidney action. Reten-
tion of this toxic material often
makes its presence felt by sore, pain-
ful joints, a tired, languid feeling
and, sometimes, toxic backache and
headache. That the kidneys are not
functioning right is often shown by
scanty or burning passage of secre-
tions. Thousands assist their kidneys
at such times by the use of Doan’s
Pills—a stimulant diuretic. Doan’s
are recommended by many local peo-
ple. Ask your neighbor!
DOAN’ PILLS
60c
Stimulant Diaretic to the Kidneys
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Bellefonte, Penna.
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RHEUMATISM
While in France with the American
Army I obtained a noted French preserip-
tion for the treatment of Rheumatism and
Neuritis. I have given this to thousands
with wonderful results. The prescription
cost me nothing. I ask nothing for it. ¥
will mail it if you will send me your ad-
dress. A postal will bring it Write today.
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72-13-4t Dept. H. C-84 Brockton, Mass.
Whether they be fresh,
smoked or the cold-ready to
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market.
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.
Orders by telephone always receive
prompt attention.
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8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
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county, Pa. Office at his resi-
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D. CASEBEER, Optometrist, Regis-
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Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
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lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg., High St.
Bellefonte, Pa. T1-22-t£
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by the State Board. State Colle
every day except Saturday. Belle-
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the Court House, Wednesday afternoons
from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9 a. m. to
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COW CHOW 24% DAIRY FEED
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$45.00 per Ton
We can make you a 30 to 32%
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Why pay more for something not so
good?
We Have Taken on the 32 per cent
Wayne
Dairy F eed at $54.00 per ton
Our Poultry Feeds Can’t be Better
Scratch grains........... $2.40 per H.
Wagner's poultry Mash.. 2.90 per H.
Cotton seed meal 43%......... $45.00 per ton
Oil meal 832% ........00000000s 58.00 per ton
Gluten feed 239%... ...cco0uvnn 42.00 per ton
Alfalfa fine grade. ...... ... 45.00 per ten
BPR ov: vohicisiiisasarnens 38.00 ‘per ton
Middlings ............... 88.00 per tom
Mixed Chop.........c000n 38.00 per ton
(These Prices are at the MIiIL)
$2.00 per Ton Extra for Delivery.
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It will be to your interest to
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