es Bellefonte, Pa., July 15, 1927. Aviator’s Story Cld to Enoch and Elijah An aviator who had broken the world’s altitude record, but who had lost his life in the attempt, was sit- ting on a celestial corner telling a wide-eyed circle of friends of his ex- ploit. He described at length the thrills and the crash which had brought about the end. A wing had broken, and he had gone jerkily down through space, wobbling like the Toonerville trolley, and had landed with a fatal crash in a city street, His words held his hearers spellbound, for it is not given every man to die an adventurous death, and as he talked on passersby stopped to join the crowd which had gathered around him. Final- ly the talker noticed two old men with long, flowing beards moseying slowly up the street. They stopped to learn what the excitement was, shrugged their shoulders, smiled amusedly. and passed on. “Who are these two old birds?” asked the aviator, somewhat cha- grined. “Why,” replied a bystander,” don’t you know them? That’s Enoch and Elijah.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. One Form of Salute That Franklin Liked “It was charming to see the em- braces of Solon and Sophocles,” wrote John Adams, present when Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire were introduced to each other at the French Acudemy of Sciences. After they were intro- duced they bowed and spoke, but there was no satisfaction among the audi- ence; it expected something more, Adams wrote. Neither of the philos- ophers seemed to divine what was wished or expected, but they took each other by the hand awkwardly and Stood there. But this was not enough; the clamor continued until the ex- planation came out—they were ex- pected to embrace after the French fashion. The two thereupon embraced each other and kissed each other's cheeks and then the tumult subsided. Franklin, however, once said that the only really enjoyable fete tendered him by the French was the one wher e, as the apostle of liberty, he was hon- ored by baving the most beautiful of 300 women designated to place a wreath on his head and to give him two kisses.—Kansas City Times. Wanted All the Goodies Teddy was about to enter his tenth year. His mother told him he might invite his little friends to a birthday party, and she made the necessary preparations. On the important eve- ning they were waiting for the guests. Suddenly the youngster said, “Mother, don’t you think it’s time to eat the ice cream and cake now?” “Certainly not, dear,” she replied. “We must wait until your little friends are here.” “Well. I'll tell you the truth. moth- er,” Teddy began, “1 just thought that for once in my life I'd like to have all the ice cream and cake I wanted, so I guess we'd better begin now, cause 1 didn’t invite anybody.”—Boston Tran script. : Rockets Travel Far Many different types of rockets are made. The distance to which they will range and the height to which they will ascend depend upon the type. An ordinary sky-rocket, such as used on the Fourth of July, will probably not ascend more than 500 feet if fired from a vertical position. and will probably not range farther than 1,000 yards if held elevated at an _ angle of 30 degrees. The highest de- veloped rocket is probably the tracer shell used in artillery. In this the projectile carries a supply of illumi- nating tracer composition in its base, and the tracer shell has nearly the range of the ordinary projectile. in some types upward of 20,000 yards. Where Man Is Vain Among the Kavirondo negroes of Oentral Africa a man wears as many coils of iron as his arms and legs will hold, and keeps them brightly burr ished with oil or fat. Meta! is so fascicating to the men of this tribe that telegraph wires are sometimes torn down to be made into armlets or anklets, or to be twisted ir imitation of European travelers. . On festive occasions the numerous coils of iron are specially polished for the occasion. Then the Kavirondo man adds a string of empty cartridges, a piece of chain mall, anklets of bells, and any odd scraps of metal he car find. Wished They Hadn’t As she tripped blithely across the roadway the celebrated actress noticed an old friend, a playwright, who was heavily bandaged, coming toward her. “Good gracious:” she exclaimed. “My dear, have you been in an accl- dent?” : Her friend regarded ber a moment. “No,” he answered; “but you re- member that play ¢f mine which came on the other night?” The other nodded. “Well, they called for the author at the end and, unfortunately, I didn’t realize how much they wanted him.” —Subscribe for the Watchman. i I eee HEART SECONDARY, ASSERTS DOCTOR Cell Activity Forces Blood in System, He Says. Berlin.—Prof, Martin Mendelsohn, who has occupied the chair of diseases of the heart in Berlin university since 1899, has put forward the extraordi- nary theory that the heart is not the prime power for life, but as an organ plays only a secondary part. His the- ory is that the activity of the cells of the body, in absorbing and eliminating fluids, constitute the chief motive power in forcing the blood through the system. In support of his theory Doctor Men- delsohn calls attention to the fact that many persons with exceedingly weak hearts continue to live, although in these particular cases it is impossible to believe that their hearts can pump the blood through the body. Professor Mendelsohn first pro- pounded his theory in the new medical weekly, Die Medizinische Zeit, in a re- cently published article, which subse: quently was taken up by Alfred Kerr of the Berliner Tageblatt. An elabo- rate discourse on the subject is being prepared by Doctor Mendelsohn for an early meeting of the medical se ciety. The author of this new theory con- tends that “the human body’s motive power is represented by the cellular activity of the glands and skin in ab- sorbing and excreting liquids which furnish the requisite fuel for the hu: man motor, whereas the heart and blood circulation merely play a regu- lative role in distributing such fuel and resulting refuse to and from the various motors throughout the body, namely, the internal, glandular an¢ epidermic cells.” Doctor Mendelsohn says that this explains many cases of the burial of persons apparently dead, and he argues that other tests besides cessa- tion of the heart beat are necessary to establish true death. Special Outfit Saves Fallen Totem Poles Vancouver, B. C.—The dominion gov- ernment totem pole preservation out- fit has arrived at Skeena Crossing, B. C., with a flat car load of hoisting gear including the huge derrick used for erecting fallen poles. This gear came from the totem pole village of Kitwanga, where the government work of totem pole preservation was car- ried on during the last two seasons to the great interest of the tourists who are allowed to walk through the Githsan Indian village while the trains stop for water. This year the work of totem pole Jreservation will be carried on at Gytsegvuela, a village about a mile below Skeena Crossing, where there are 18 huge roreni poles close to the river bank plainly seen from the rail- road car windows for over half a mile on viver. The northern end of the Pacific aighway is at present within four miles of Gytsegyuela so that automo- bile parties from many parts of the United States can now come close to this remarkable collection of totem poles and in a few weeks the road ecang will resume work on the high- way and push it on past Skeena Cross- ing, Gytsegyuela and well toward Kit- wanga during the present season. Dig Up Ruins Believed to Be Timur’s Palace Samarkand, U. S. 8S. R.—Remains of walls of what is believed to have been one of the palaces belonging to Timur or Tamerlane, the renowned Oriental conqueror of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, have been un- earthed by excavators here. The walls appear to have been richly decorated with frescoes and other ornamenta- tions. “Pimur the Lame,” who carried his /ictorious arms from the Volga to the Persian gulf and from the Hellespont to the Ganges, had his capital in Sa- markand, once the richest city in the Orient, and it was from there that he started on his famous expedition to conquer India, From this venture he is said to have taken back to his na- tive city an immense quantity of spoil and 90 elephants laden with stones of a peculiar quality with which to build his palace. ARS AR I io) x Briton Finds New Way to Get Auto Repaired 4 % % London.—A new way to get 4 one’s automobile repaired has ; been discovered by a London 4 man. The formula is to leave J it standing alongside another ¥ one of the same make in the g hope that the owner of the other 3 * k ¥ + 4 # ¥ 4 + #4 9 of car wiil mistake it for his own and put it in order. Anyway this happened at a sea- side resort recently. A London- er returned in the evening to the ¥ place where his car was parked % but on getting into it he found ¥ that it wouldn’t start. There- upon he climbed out, removed > and cleaned the spark plugs, tuned up the magneto and ad- #% justed the earburetor.” The car started off beautifully just as the real owner rushed up shout- % ing, “Police.” The first man then i found his own car just behind the one which he had so kindly jo EE I LL the opposite side of the Skeena | | not always possible to ward off exter Odd Legends About Inhabitants of Moon The weird marks seen on a full moon, and today known to be moun- tains and valleys on the face of the Queen of Night, have given rise to many quaint legends, peculiar to dif ferent countries. In certain races the man in the moon is a being who, on account of great wisdom, says a writer in the Popular Pictorial, was trans- ferred to the moon, from which he was able to see everything that occurred. To the Chinese he is Yue-tao, who ar ranges all marriages. Among the old Red Indian tribes the medicine men received their power by departing into the middle of a lake and holding cor sultation with the man in the moon. The German version deals with a peasant who was reprimanded by an angel for gathering fagots on a Sun: day. He replied, “Sunday on earth, or Monday in heaven, it is all the same to me.” For this he was sent to ar sternal moonday in heaven. The earliest English version ap pears in the writings of a St. Albans wonk. Here it was Moses who found 4 man gathering sticks on the Sab path, and expelled him to the moon. In France the man in the moon be comes Judas Iscariot, and the wood is a load which he must always carry AS a punishment. Captive Wild Beasts Have Strong Appeal Long before Christ the desire of the public to view wild animals, birds. reptiles and fish at close range mani fested itself. Royal preserves and me- uageries are as old as the civilization of Assyria and Egypt. In 1100 B. C it Is recorded that the first emperor of the Chou dynasty in China estab {ished a zoological garden, the first of its kind of which there is definite knowledge. This garden was called {ntelligence park and appears to have had scientific and educational objects The ancient Romans kept in captiv- ity large numbers of such animals as leopards, lions, bears, elephants, cam: els, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses. as well as ostriches and crocodiles Bmperor Frederick II had at his Scil- ian court a notable collection from which he sent to Henry III of England three leopards, in compliment to the three animals of that species that ap- « peared in the monarch’s coat of arms. These animals, with an elephant sent not long afterward by Louis IX of France, formed the nucleus of the famous Tower menagerie. — Detroit News. Cultivate Good Mind Worry produces indigestion and dys- pepsia; the gastric juices are not formed. Hate thoroughly, and you will be a martyr to neuralgia. Be vio lently jealous, and the upset to the glands sows the seeds of cancer. Be malicious and cruel, and you'll get neuralgia. Be a fault-finder, a nag ger, a scold and asthma comes. It is impossible to disconnect the mind and the body An ill thought doesn’t stay in the mind; it hits the body some where. It has been noted that extreme disgust will produce catarrh. It Is nal causes of disease, but we ought to be able to control our minds. Poi sen in the mind means poison in the hody—suffering, and a shortening of | life. Have a “good” mind, and you'll | ave good health.—London Tit-Bits. | | RR | American Ideas Abroad Emigrants returning to their native owne in Europe after having made heir “fortunes” in the United States, arry back with them American ideas and the American language, which has supplanted French and German as the international tongue among the Euro pean masses. In hundreds of villages in southeastern Europe there are two districts—one the “native,” built of stone and rubble, with the chickens roosting in the dining and bedroom; the other the “American,” with houses of white plaster and a special. barn yard for the live stock, says a corre spondent of the New York Sun. Doubles—and Quits They were sitting out a dance. Great palm fronds hid them from «few. The saxopbone wailed and moaned and in the dim light the girl's head rested on her partner’s shoulder. Suddenly the girl spoke: “How much do you love me?’ she sked. “As much,” murmured the young Gan, “as much, darling, as you love me.” The girl looked up and drew away quickly. “Humph I” she said. Whole Alphabet in Name Here is a simple way to learn the .etters of the Eawalian alphabet, A son was born recently to Mr. and | Mrs. Joseph Alohikea of Honolulu. And the child was named: Joseph Keohookalanikamakanloka- kae Alohikea. The youngster’s middle name con- ‘ins all the letterg of the Hawaiian alphabet with the exeeption of “w.” Literally transiated the name meuus “the hair of the king is like the wind of Kakae.” Kakae 18 a settlement on the island of Maui. The Vicious Circle Prisoner—I admit, your honor, thet: I ~as exceeding the speed limit, but I was afrald of being late at court. Judge—Ang what was your business tm court? Prisoner—]1 had. to answer the charge of exceeding the speed ihnft. ODD WAYS YIELD TO MODERN TREND Americans Cause Important Changes in Albania. Tirana, Albania.—Picturesque ¢os- tumes of Albania are succumbing to progress, and America has a large share in causing the metamorphosis. Albanians have been called “more Turkish than the Turks” because of their faithful adherence to traditions fmported by Mohammedan invaders centuries ago. Recently an Italian ship which arrived during the fast of Ramadan, a 30-day period in which no Moslem is supposed to eat or work ivefore 6 p. m., had to go back with out landing its cargo. The United States government came in conflict with the Mohammedan faith in its purchase of a site for a new legation. The woman owner of the site refused to allow herself to be seen unveiled for legal identification in transferring the site until she was convinced that a man had seen her face once before, and then she per- mitted him to see it again. The site chosen was outside the city limits ot Tirana, and an Albanian law prohibits foreigners from owning property ex- cept in cities, so the authorities ac- commodatingly extended the city limits. H. F. Fultz of Washington, a gradu- ate of the University of Chicago, is busy Americanizing young Albanians in the American vocational school here. He is teaching youngsters to build houses, run and repair steam engines and other mechanical occupa- tions. American sports, particularly baseball, have been introduced. American shoes are popular with all classes. The peasants and mountain- eers cling most avidly to ancient cus- tom, but even at weddings American shoes may be seen worn in odd cor trast to native costumes. Of the country’s 700 motor cars, 600 are American, the preference being ex- plained by the statement that “Ameri- can cars are the best climbers and swimmers,” which in this mountainous country, laced with streams, is the best of recommendations. An American who tried to introduce modern farming methods was van- quished by the old-fashioned donkey and stunted Albanian ox. With trac- tors and the latest American agricul- tural machinery he produced an excel- lent crop. But there was no market for it, as the Albanians live cheaply, so he got just a little less for it than enough to pay for his gasoline. Al- banians live on a small quantity of Indian corn, with mutton and rice at intervals. [ree Comes to Meet Farmer at the Barn Pomeroy, Ohio.—Alonso Kesterson nag.mever. believed in fairies, but now —well, consider the evidence: Mr. Kesterson, who is past the age | of believing in fairies, owns a farm just outside Pomeroy. As is a habit of farms in that vicinity, it runs most- ly up and down. just back of the house the Kester- on farm turns sharply upward for several hundred feet. Three hundred feet up this steep clay slope stood an apple tree. Its apples were of a va- riety particularly prized by Mr. Kes- terson and he bemoaned their inacces- | sibility. “I wish that old tree was down ir «he barn lot,” he confided to his grand- son the other morning. “I like them apples special and it’s gittin’ too hard to climb up there.” A few minutes later the two heara « rumble, a clatter and a crackling of timbers; they turned to behold the apple tree, its roots still buried in a gigantic clod of earth fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, settling itself in the barnyard. A bare slippery expanse of clay on the hillside revealed its path. The slippery clay, softened by heavy rains, had staged a landslide for the apparent benefit of Mr. Kesterson. The tree crashed through a fence und demolished a shed. It was in bloom at the time and now is prepar- ing, Mr, Kesterson said, to bear a crop of apples. Yet He Failed Cracow, Poland.—Stanislas Schware, chief of the political police, was or- dered to run down a gang of counter- feiters. He failed. Other detectives were put on the job. THey reported Schwarc was head of the gang. Got Relief Budapest.—Jail promised such a re- tief from his wife’s company that An- dreas Kurdi passed himself off as his son, served three months in prison and asked to stay longer. Show Dog Vaccination Stamping Out Rabies Paris.—Vaccination of dogs has done much to stamp out rabies, it was agreed by scien- tists attending a recent rabies congress at the Pasteur insti- tute. Japan, Italy and the United States, it was said, had vac- cinated several hundred thou- sand dogs. The results have shown that dogs so treated de- veloped rabies in only a small percentage of the cases. This vaccination, however, i8 said to give only temporary protection. It must be repeated every year to be effective. RF TTS Rr ES ESS Ta ISS Journalist Defined A good journalist is one who can ex- pand the material for a paragraph into a whole article, but never does go If he can avoid it; who is widely in. formed, but respects the limits of his information: who is violent in express. ing his opinions, but reasonable in forming them; and who seeks to win the agreement of his readers, but would rather inspire their indignation than their indifference.—London Na- tion and Atheneum. a ——————————————————— ——— ———————————————————————————————— Getting Things Straight The sentence: “All men are born free and equal” is a quotation from the constitution of Massachusetts which was framed in 1779, The complete sentence says: “All men are born free and equal, and have certain nat- ural, essential, and unalienable rights.” Many people erroneously suppose the phrase “born free and equal” occurs in the Declaration of Independence. That document says “all wen are ere- ated equal.”—Exchange. 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Saturday regular $7 and $8 shoes. only at urday only, at - - only, at Goodness . Goods. Sharan ASS es 3 E = —- t= One Day Sale 187 pair men’s Walkover Shoes, 300 Men’s Dollar Nockites, Sat: About 160 Boy’s Wash Suits, regular $2 and $2.50 Suits, Sturdy These are real Bargains. DON'T MISS IT. AUBLES | July 16 One day $3.85 48c : $1.49 Honest - to - All REST | i -— SASS I New Efi =} CHS Ci EEE SSNS -— ar REE
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