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“Bellefonte, Pa, August 12, 1927.
OUTLINES HIS WOES
IN STYLE OF DAVID
English Clergyman Tells ol
Tribulations.
To write a modern parody of the
Psalms of David has been often tried,
but seldom with much success beyond
achieving an occasional smart phrase
without real application or point. Uns
deterred by the previous failures of
others, however, a much perturbed
London clergyman has sought this
vehicle for the easing of the woes that
beset his soul, and by the judicioug
use of solemn language diluted with
a liberal allowance of up-to-the-minute
glang, he has accomplished something
that may, perhaps, be regarded as
worth while. Thus, complaining of
those who resent his air of solemnity.
he writes as follows:
“Be he grave or serious in his de.
meanor : seeking to uphold the dignity
of his cloth.
“He is said to be standoffish, ‘pi,
and uppish: yea, the ungodly call him
‘Holy Joe.”
Similarly, he finds that, If he tries
to be gay, greeting all and sundry
with a merry jest, there are many
whom he displeases, so that, in re-
spect of his demeanor, he is very like
the old man in the fable of “The Old
Man and His Ass,” who, trying to
please everybody, ended up by pleas-
ing nebody and lost his ass into the
bargain. This good clergyman has
his problems also with young men
and muidens, for if he holds aloof
{from them they mislike him much:
“So that when to him they shoulda
turn as to a friend in need, with
them he cutteth no ice.”
zt is, however, when he seeks to in
terfere with the widespread habit of
tippling that he gets into really hot
water:
“Again, If beholding overmuch in.
semperance in his flock: he exhorteth
all men to abstain from strong drink.
“He is said to be a killjoy and in-
auman: a very Stiggins whose mind
is straightened.
*But if he entereth a tavern and
putteth his foot upon the rail of brass:
there be those who say, ‘Behold a
wine-bibber.’
“So when he bloweth froth, he com-
mitteth iniquity : and when he bloweth
it not, he is like a sinner.”
The conclusion to which the parson
comes, surrounded by perplexities so
dire, is doubtless the best thing in his
Twentieth-century psalm:
“Let the servant therefore walk in
the steps of his Master: and care
nought for the opinion of men.”
it is an undoubtedly wise decision
and has the added merit of possessing
a far-reaching application.
“Hand Shague” Common
“Hand shague,” which caused Presi
dent Coolidge to carry his hand in a
bandage as a result of too much
handshaking, is a very troublesoma
complaint, according to medical men.
It belongs to the family of writers’
eramp and tennis knee and other
complaints that can be traced to a
definite pursuit. Many persons in
public life have suffered from it. Only
the other day Mrs. Stanley Baldwin,
wife of the British premier, suffered
an attack of it after shaking hands
with 600 women at a political meeting.
The prince of Wales suffered from it
badly on each of his tours to distant
parts of the empire. Lloyd George
and the earl of Oxford and Asquith
have both been laid up with it. And
Bernard Shaw has been heard to de-
elare that he will never risk it again.
The Unkindest Cut
After months of careful nurturing,
the fledgling mustache was just be-
ginning to be noticeable on the lip
of its proud young possessor, who
walked manfully into the barber shop
and demanded a shave. The hot tow-
els were soothing and he half napped
as the conscientious barber scraped
off fuzz and lather with practiced
strokes. The process completed, the
youth roused himself and glanced into
the mirror at his clean-shaven lip.
Consternation flushed beneath the
talcum.
“Where is my mustache?’ he ex-
claimed.
“I haven't seen it,” replied the puz-
gled barber.
fered
Tesla Sees Air Fleets
Using Wireless Power
New York.—Nicola Tesla, in-
ventor of the alternating system
of power transmission, in an in-
terview on his seventy-first
birthday predicted that air-
planes and airships would circle
the world driven by light elec-
tric motors receiving their pow-
er by wireless transmission from
generating stations on earth.
Power for manufacturing and
for light and heat, he believes,
will flow freely through the air
from central generating stations
to wherever it is needed.
“I have already demonstrated
‘i experimentally that I can trans-
mit power by wireless half way
around the earth without losing
one-half of 1 per cent of it,” he
said.
TREE RINGS CLEWS T0
HISTORY AND WEATHER
Life Story Is Revealed in
Own Cross-Section.
Washington.—Announcement by Dr.
A. E. Douglass of the University of
Arizona that the study of the sequence
of tree rings is likely to be of value
in long-time weather forecasting re-
calls that tree rings already have fur-
nished valuable clews to dating pre-
Columbian history of America.
This method was used in conjunc-
tion with pottery types in fixing the
time when Pueblo Bonito, New Mex-
ico, flourished as the metropolis ef
America in the years before 1492.
Trees Our Oldest Inhabitants.
Dr. Neil M. Judd, leader of the Na-
tional Geographic society expeditions
to Pueblo Bonito, with whom Doctor
Douglass collaborated in applying his
method to the Pueblo Bonito ruins.
writes:
“The oldest living things in Amer-
ica are its big trees, the sequoias of
the Sierra Nevada. The pines and
junipers of Arizona and New Mexico
are much younger than the sequoias;
but, like the latter, they are older
than any other living thing in their
own neighborhood. Some of these up-
land trees are between four hundred
and five hundred years of age, and it
is not at all improbable that still old-
er ones may be found.
“The life history of almost every
tree is revealed by its own-cross sec-
tion, this year’s growth being record-
ed by a new ring. If any given year
has been one of scanty rainfall, the
particular ring for that year will be
relatively thin; and, conversely, if the
rainfall has been abundant, there will
be a corresponding increase in the
thickness of the annual ring.
‘Periods of drought or excessive
«oisture, it has been learned, tend to
repeat themselves at fairly regular in-
tervals, resulting thus in a more or
less orderly sequence of thick and thin
annual rings which do not vary, to,
any marked degree, in all the trees
of any one district.
“Certain of these ring series pos
sesses individual features that quick-
ly identify them, no matter in what
locality they may be found, and these
are naturally utilized by the investi-
gator as ‘keys’ to the problem he is
seeking to solve. And what is true of
living trees Is likewise true of dead
trees, and beams or roofing timbers
from prehistoric ruins, like Pueblo
Bonito.
“From the foregoing it will be ob
cious that if any overlapping series
of annual rings can be discovered—
that is, if a given sequence of rings
can be found both in a beam from
Pueblo Bonito and in a tree still liv-
ing—it will be possible to date the
former with reasonable exactness.
Tree Calendar’s “Missing Link.”
“Such a direct connection, however,
vith no intervening links in our time
chain from the beams of prehistoric
Pueblo Bonito to the living trees of
northern New Mexico, is rather be:
yond the range of possibilities; the
explorer’s task is rarely quite so easy
as that.
‘It seems necessary, therefore, in
the present case. to tind a ‘connecting
link’ in this time chain, and that was
the especial object of a subsidiary ex-
pedition authorized by the research
committee of the National Geographic
society in connection with the explora-
tion of Pueblo Bonito.
‘Cross-sections from 49 timbers un
carthed during the explorations of two
seasons were examined by Doctor
Douglass with very instructive re-
sults. These beams, taken from the
eastern portion of Pueblo Bonito, ali
seem to have been cut within a period
of 12 years.
“Some timbers exposed in the north:
western quarter of the ruin, however,
were cut several years earlier, thus
corroborating the archeological evi-
dence previously presented.”
Cemetery Centuries Old
Found, History Unknown
Chester, Pa.—Curiosity-seekers have
discovered an abandoned burying
ground near here, said to be the oldest
in the section, as dates of 1698, 1704
and 1735 are decipherable on the few
remaining stones, which also show the
family names of Ford and Smith.
The two-century-old cemetery is lo-
cated in two states, Pennsylvania and
Delaware, as the Mason and Dixon
line runs directly through the prop:
erty, located in the most southern
part of Lawncroft cemetery, on the
Wilmington pike. A cluster of trees
stand guard at the rapidly vanishing
plot, which is on a hill, overlookicg
the valley between the two states.
Inquiry fails to find anyone to relate
its history.
Origin of Shoemaking
Traced Back to Egypt
~ New York.—It may boot little to
you that the origin of shoes has been
traced to Egypt, through the foot-
wear taken from mummies in public
museunis, but in the days when “wom-
an bangled her arms, bingled her hair
and bungled her face,” as Homer or
Herodotus put it, she always was care-
ful to “tittivate her toes,” asserts Dr.
Frank H, Vizetelly.
The Israelites wore sandals. The
early Chaldeans wore neither sandals
nor shoes, but shoes were not un-
known to the Assyrians even in the
earliest period, for they were indi-
cated on the feet of foreign tribute
bearers as early as the Black Obelisk
king, Shalmaneser.
Any Story About Dogs
Finds Ready Believers |
A dispatch from Winsted, Conn.
tells a tale of a fifteen-year-old dog,
belonging to a Winsted resident, who,
finding himself alone in the house
and becoming lunely, went to the tele-
phone, knocked the receiver off and
barked into the mouthplece until com-
panionship came in response to the
tppeal.
The ark probably produced the first
dog story, but unfortunately we do
not know what it was. Scripture is
silent on the subject. From the time
of the Flood onward, however, there
have been dog stories in rapld suc-
cession, most of which still are to be
found on record in the baked brick or
the papyrus records of the ancients.
There were tales of dogs in the semi-
ancient, medieval and modern times.
Everybody likes a dog story and ev-
erybody tells them. The dog always
has had his day.
It is just 100 years ago this year
as the record goes that Alfred Jingle
told his story of a usually obedlent
hunting dog that refused to enter a
certain field even under the urging
of calls and whistles from his master.
When the master jumped the fence
he found the dog looking at a sign
which read, “Any dog found in this
field will be shot.” That yarn of Al-
fred Jingle's was at least 500 years
old before Jingle gave it to the ears
of listeners unlearned in dog lore.
There is another dog story which
they tell in newspaper circles in Eng-
land daily and have been telling ever
since newspapers first were printed.
A dog was sent every evening by his
master to bring his favorite paper
from a dealer half a mile distant. As
they tell the story in England the
names of the newspapers are changed
to suit the occasion. When It was
heard the last time the dog's master
was a subscriber to the Times. One
day copies of the Times had not been
received by the dealer. He offered
the dog a Daily Telegraph, which the
1cg promptly refused to take.
There is nothing at all unbelievable
about the tale of the Winsted dog. If
occasion had required it he probably
would have dropped a nickel in the
slot and given the correct number,
and then would have uttered a canine
~urse if he got the busy signal.
Spoke With Authority
The boulevards were perfumed with
the odor of flowers. Two weeks of
golden sun had brought the first
abundant harvest. Near the Made-
leine church carts were buried under
violets, jasmine and lilacs. Every
Parisian was buying a “bottle.” A
rubicund parish priest from the coun-
try on the way to the station stopped
to select a little bouquet. He exam-
Ined the wares of a big red-faced
woman, but apparently not quite sat-
isfied, he made as if to go to another
stall. Then we heard the flower seller
say: “Monsieur le cure, whatever you
do, don’t buy of that woman next
to me. She has no conscience; you
will be cheated; she is a good-for-
nothing.” “Ah, but,” replied the old
priest, “really this IS no way to speak
of your neighbor, my good friend.”
But the flower seller quickly added
to support her opinion: “I know her;
she is my own daughter, that!"—
Pierre Van DPaassen, in the Atlanta
Constitution.
Reduces Accidents
draking by electricity—the newest
idea in street and interurban railway
operation—is cutting down car accl-
dents materially. A number of rail-
ways throughout the land are equip-
ping cars with the magnetic airbrakes.
A car so equipped carries flat shoes
each about two inches wide with the
face suspended above the top of the
rail. When the power is applied—
usually in emergencies—these shoes
drop and the electric power stops the
car in one-third the time required by
airbrakes alone.
Direct Rail to Mexico
When the Southern Pacific of Mex:
ico connects its rails at Salsu Pueds
bridge in the Barrancas (deep gorges)
on the Jalisco-Nayarit state line, the
western American states will be given
direct rail communication with the
Mexican capital. One may then de-
part from any point in the United
States, travel down the west coast
of Mexico to Mexico City, connect
there with the railway to the Guate
malan frontier and thence continue
on narrow-gauge rails into Central
America.
Try Budgets on Babies
£conomics experts at the Univer
sity of Nebraska have worked out a
system of household budgets for five-
year-old girls. Early training in the
budget system, the home economies
ladles think, will prevent many fu-
ture homes from ending on the rocks.
The Woman's Home Companion sug-
gests facetlously that the training
should begin still earller—“and per-
haps soon, at a certain important
family event, the official attendants
will include a doctor, a nurse and a
budget expert.”
Sharks to Be Capitalized
A new Industry, which wiil depend
apon the shark for its products is to
be established in New Zealand. Prod-
ucts obtained from the shark include
leather, a fertilizer, valuable oll, glue
and a substance from the pancreatic
gland for medicinal purposes. The
uim of the promoters of the enter-
prise, among whom are some of the
foremost men in the country, is to
secure a daily catch of 1,000 sharks,
which abound in New Zealand waters.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the eorrect letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is
indicated by a mushber, which refers te the definition listed below the pusale.
Thus Ne. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
All the white spaces up te the first black square te the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines & word which will fill the white squares te the mext
No letters ge im the black spaces. All words used are dig-
black eme below.
tienary words, éxeept proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, techmienl
terms and obsolete forma are indieated im the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal.
3—Propagative portion of a plant
4—Mast
T—Having form of a bowl
12—Large body of water
13—Woman's origin
14—Perfect golf
15—Period of time
16—To be foolishly fond
17—A literary composition
18—To propel a boat
19—Long piece of hard wood
24—A girl's name
25—An unctuous combustible sub-
stance
27—Entertaining
29—Rise and fall of ocean
30—Arabian ruler
Solution will appear in next issue
National Championship Might be De-
cided at Altoona on Labor Day.
George Souders, modest young west
coast automobile race pilot, now lead-
ing the entire American roster in
earned championship points for the
1927 season will compete with his
rivals in the 200 mile national cham-
pionship race here on Labor day.
Credited with a total of 1000 points,
and the intrepid little Italian driver
i Peter DePaolo trailing in second
i place with 940 points, the clash in
Altoona which offers the winner 400
additional points, will greatly en-
danger the position of the leader.
Harry Hartz, who was acclaimed
the heavy money winner and declared
champion during the past season,
i enjoys third place in the lineup with
‘a total of 595 points.
Considering the limited number of
, awards remaining on the present year
| schedule, Souders will be compelled to
i
earn additional point credits to assure
his lead which was accomplished in
| the sensational victory at Indianapo-
lis.
The Altoona race on Labor day, to-
gether with the events at Charlotte
and Salem tracks later in the season,
i present a trio
awarding contests.
of remaining point
From these races
| the final awards of championship rat-
ing will be based.
It is noted that Leon Duray and
Overdoing?
Hurry, Worry and Overwork Bring
Heavy Strain.
ODERN life throws a heavy
burden on our bodily ma-
chinery. The eliminative organs, es-
pecially the kidneys, are apt to be-
come sluggish. Retention of excess
uric acid and other poisonous waste
often gives rise to a dull, languid
feeling and, sometimes, toxic back-
aches and headaches. That the kid-
neys are not functioning perfectly is
often shown by burning or scanty
passage of secretions. More and
more people are learning to assist
their kidneys by the occasional use
of Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diu-
retic. Ask your neighbor!
DOAN’ PILLS
60c
Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem., Buffalo, N. ¥.
Vertical.
1—Former ruler of Russia
2—A bag
3—Annoyed
5—Doctrine of uncertainty
6—What all roads lead to
8—A beverage
9—Aural appendage
10—Wrath
11—Kind of tree
19—A short poem
20—State of hostility
21—Call for help
22—A wooden tub
23—A liquid measure
26—Seaweed
28—Way of departure
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Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle.
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Meats,
Whether they be fresh, !
smoked or the cold-ready to i
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.
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prompt attention.
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P. L. Beezer Estate
Market on the Diamond
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of the remaining contests. With
these facts in mind, it will remain
for George Souders to renew his on-
ward dash to victory.at Altoona.
The ninth championship contest
at Altoona promises its usual thrill-
ing aspect, and will afford Peter De-
Paolo, second place holder, an p-
portunity of assuming the lead in the
championship point race, if he re--
peats his victory of June 11th.
—A good variety of feeds in the
grain mixture will be appreciated by
the dairy cow. Successful dairymen
sm —
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Successor to H. E. FENLON
Temple Court,
Bellefonte, Penna.
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FOOTWEAR
worth the price
The new shoe styles as
fashion has designed them for the
summer season.
choose a model for street or for dress
wear, you may feel assured that the
style is correct,
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the quality well
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