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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.”
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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.
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upon he climbed out, removed
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tuned up the magneto and ad-
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
A Safe Investment
very community is full of people eagerly seeking
to save money and to safely invest it so that they
may be independent in their old age.
Here are five questions they should ask, before
investing.
1. Safety.
Is the investment safe ?
2. Diversification (not too many eggs in one basket)
3. Market.
Has it a wide market? Can I sell,
if
necessary, within a narrow range of my purchase
price?
4. Income. Is the rate of
of perfect safety?
5. Growth.
interest within the limits
Is the property in which I am investing,
through the purchase of its shares or to which I am
lending money through the purchase of its bonds, a
growing concern? Isit a staple, necessary business,
not subject to killing competition, or change of
fashion?
These are some of the questions asked in our
Trust Department.
They require intimate knowledge and experience
to answer.
Make this bank your Executor or Trustee and
safeguard your investments and your estate.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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