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? Bellefonte, Pa., August 26, 1927.
Jewels in Profusion
Decked Desert Queen
It Is not generally known that the
Sahara desert has encroached hun~
dreds of miles eastward during the
centuries since the great days of Egyp-
tian civilization, and has in conse-
quence buried in sand many forgotten
cities and centers of population. One
often thinks of the treasure lying on
the floor of the ocean, but the treasure
buried under desert sands must alse
be incalculable,
A sensational discovery was made
recently, not on the Egyptian side,
where the sand almost succeeded in,
overwhelming the mighty Sphinx, but,
on the western side of the desert. The!
body of some ancient queen of the Sa-
hara was found beneath the sand. On
her arms were found eighteen brace-
lets, nine of gold and nine of silver;
five necklaces of jewels were around
her neck, and on her head was a
diadem of gold starred with jewels.
There was much exquisitely carved,
furniture in the tomb, and near by,
were piles of jewels—emeralds, rubies,
onyx, and so on. On the opposite]
side was found a superb statue of a
woman carved in stone. The date of;
this tomb is placed at least a thousand!
years before the Christian era.
Ey
Homan Blood Stream
Has Tides Like Sea
The only time most people think
anything about the ebb and flow of
tides is when they are at the seaside
or on the river. Few people know
they have their own daily tides in the
blood stream pumped from the heart.
That this is so has been shown by
Dr. F. B. Shaw, who declares that the
high tide of the white corpuscles of
the blood usually comes just after
midnight and again in the afternoon.
These tides, he says, may be related
to the hours of eating and sleeping or
to the changing positions of sun and
earth,
Another doctor has discovered that
anger makes the blood sweeter. After
making several people angry, he drew
off samples of blood, and in all cases
found more sugar in the blood after
the fit of emotion than before,
His Impulse
The following true incident was told
to a friend of the Companion not long
ago by a woman of the Quaker faith.
A Quaker was once passing a Quak-
<r meetinghouse in the country when
suddenly he felt an impulse to go in
and preach, although there was no
audience. He acted accerding to his
impulse, preached a short sermon and
then left the building.
Some years later, while in Londor,,
ne was accosted by a man who said
to him, “Sir, you saved my life.”
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Astonished at such a remark, he
said, “What do you mean? TI do not
know you.”
Well,” said the man, “1 was pass
sNg a certain meetinghouse ene day
and, hearing a voice, I listened out !
side the window.” And then he add-
ed in a low voice, “I was an ex-convict
and in despair, but your words siaved
me.”—Youth’s Companion.
Great Wal! of China
Few people realize what an almost
perfect condition prevails along a
large part of the great wall of China.
The bricks of the parapet are as firm
as ever, and their edges have stood
the severe climate of north China with
scarcely a break. The paving along
the top of the wall is so smooth that
one may ride over it with a bicycle.
and the great granite blocks with
which it is faced are as smooth and as
closely fitted as when put in place
over 2,000 years ago. The entire
length of this wall is 1,400 miles; it is
22 feet high and 20 feet in thickness.
At intervals of 100 yards or so there
are towers some 40 feet in height,
‘= Considerate
{ The artist had agreed to paint the
portrait of a beautiful young girl in
her very beceming lavender evening
gown.
The girl’s mother decided, as she
thought the matter over at home, thai
she would prefer to have her daugh-
ter wear a yellow dress.
A few days later the portrait painy
er received a message over the tele
phone from the young girl: “Mother
thinks I'd better wear my yellow
dress and hopes ycu haven't bought
the paint yet!”—Vancouver Province.
One Year's Moose Bag
It has been estimated that about
10,000 moose are killed in Canada
each year. This seems a heavy
slaughter, but far from there being
any danger of extermination from
this toll taken by the moose hunter,
authorities in different sections are of
the opinion that a killing of twice
that number could be made each year,
and the natural increase would defi:
nitely offset any danger of the extine
tion of the moose.
Not to Be Consoled
Little Katherine was crying, not fo
anything in particular, but for every
thing in general. Her mother, trying
to divert her attention, said:
“Oh, look at that pretty horse tied
out there.”
But Katherine took it as one more
grievance in life, saying: “I wan
that horse to be a mule.”
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“DRIVER” ANTS
PROVE TERROR
West African Insects Travel
Much Like an Army—
Eat Elephants.
Purdue, Ind.—Ants are looked upon
in Indiana mostly as household nui-
sances, but in West Africa they can
become a question of life and death.
Such is the gist of a letter received
recently by T. R. Johnson of the Pur-
due university news bureau from
Homer Pease, a graduate of the Pur-
due school of agriculture, class of
1926, who is a junior planter at Mon-
rovia, Liberia, West Africa. Pease is
a native of Seelyville, near Terre
Haute, and was prominent in campus
activities while in Purdue.
Mail takes a month to reach Indi-
ana from Monrovia, and the incident
which Pease relates occurred in June
The letter follows:
“The drivers, the particular species
of the ants which created havoc last
night, came in about 1 a. m. They got
in my bed and woke me up with their
biting, and they can bite. The bed was
nearly covered. I jumped out and
pulled on my mosquito boots and by
that time there were so many on the
bed I couldn’t see the sheets. I tried
to find an ant-free room, but there
wasn’t any! I ran to the kitchen—
the kitchen is a separate building—
and told my boy to get my bath robe,
but one look at the ants and he
wouldn’t stir, Those natives have had
previous experience with drivers. I
threatened to fire him but he was
adamant, so I spent the rest of the
evening—it was raining—in the damp.
with a fire blazing in the kitchen.
Ants Kill Rats.
“About 4 a.m. I heard rats squeal-
ing in the thatch roof and a little
later I heard something Fit the ground,
I went cut to investigate with a flash-
light and counted five half-grown rats
covered with ants and more falling
every minute. By daylight there were
just a few stragglers left on the floor.
The boy got my clothes and I picked
the ants out of them. I put my boy
to work and came in for breakfast
about 8 a.m.
“By that time the drivers were leav-
iug. The drivers or ‘warriors’ of the
outfit (what do you call a group of
ants—colonies, gangs or what?) had
rounded up the workers from off the
floor and furniture and had estab-
lished a line or trench from the roof,
down a post to the floor, across the
floor about two feet from where I was
sitting, and on out the door. I went
out to see how the rats fared and all
that was left was a few bones. When
[ came back at noon there wasn’t e
sign of an ant,
“I just feel like L imagine folks feel
after a tornado or hurricane that has
created havoc with everything but
left their house standing.
“To you people who don’t know
drivers, this whole thing may sound
like a wild dream, but it is rhe truth,
“Old and experienced men say that
the driver ant is one of the most
feared animals in Africa. They eat
anything from dead monkeys to live
elephants. In killing elephants they
crawl up in the trunk and drive the |
beast crazy and he beats himself to
death. There is the story of a man
who got so drunk that on his way |
home he fell and presumably couldn't
get up; the next morning they found
his bones and the drivers leaving.
“I haven’t any technical knowledge
of ants, especially drivers, but I have
watched them a great deal. There
seems to be a definite form of organi-
zation, much like an army. The work-
ers are small, about one-quarter inch,
while the drivers are large, with fero-
cious snippers. In moving, the drivers
form compact lanes in which the
workers move lightning fast, some-
times in single layers and sometimes
in four or more deep, but all in one
way. Other times I have noticed that
they spread out over an area 15 to 25
feet wide. If you break a line the
drivers rush around like mad, hunting
the disturbance, while others drive the
workers back in line and get them
moving,
“But that isn’t all of the ant. We
aave lots more. My bungalow seems
to be on an ant hill, for there are al-
ways hundreds of little black ones in
everything.
Various Kinds of Ants,
“Then we have ants that live in
wrees, ants that live in bushes, ants
that build big mud houses and some
that build small insulator houses, like
the insulators on a high tension line.
“The little black ones are not dan-
gerous, just obnoxious and pestiferous,
They eat my sugar, get on the table
and into everything—the soup, jam,
the water and everything that hasn’t
a fool and ant-proof lid. You can get
used to a lot of little things, but I
can’t get used to ants in my drinking
water,
“These little red ants that build
cheir nests on the under side of the
leaves of small bushes are not to be
disturbed because they are liquid fire
and nothing else.
“The ‘mason’ ants are the large
ones that build large pyramid mud
houses, Some of these houses are six
or seven feet high and built out of the
choicest clay. Each hill constitutes
a colony and has one queen, which like
a queen bee does nothing but lay eggs.
It is six inches long and a great deli-
cacy for the boys.
“Besides all of these ants we have
one ant which at one stage in the life
cycle sprouts wings and flies about
for one night—not just a few but
millions of them.”
“WOODPECKERS” AID UNCLE
SAM IN EGONOMY PLANS
Save the Government Several Millior
Dollars Yearly by Thrift
and Efficiency.
Washington.—*“The Loyal Order of
Woodpeckers”—Uncle Sam’s economy
fraternity—has saved the governmeni
several million dollars in the last yea»
by thrift and efficiency.
Under the guiding eye of the budget
and efficiency bureaus, federal em-
ployees have saved supplies, utilized
)quipment to the utmost, and labored
with as little lost motion as possible
Sale of surplus government supplies
brought in hundreds of thousands of
dollars, it wus stated at the treasury.
Much of these materials had been rof-
ting or rusting away from nonuse.
Then the government gained quite
a profit through telephone coin boxes
in departmental buildings. By a work-
ing agreement with the telephone com-
pany, the treasury collected a portion
of the receipts from coin slots while
lederal phones could not be used for
personal calls.
Many departments economized by
personal cuts. In many instances high
salaried employees who resigned were
replaced by employees at much lower
salaries.
Running the government costs $4,-
J00,000,000 annually and because of
this huge outlay no economies, no
matter how small, could be overlooked.
Rubber bands were used over and
over, until Postmaster General New
exclaimed he could get some of his
around a bass drum.
The Agricultural department ever
Jased its pay envelopes over again.
Employees when paid returned the en-
velopes, thus saving the container and
also the labor of typing the name of
the receiver on each envelope once
more.
At the Commerce department paper
clips were used until they were “worn
thin,” chain envelopes were used for
interdepartmental communications,
pencils sharpened to their erasers and
paper written on both sides for
economy.
The Navy and War departments
«Sed their communication facilities to
send commercial messages and also
practically all the government’s busi-
ness, collecting funds for the treasury
and at the same time saving other
governmental ageucies money on
transmitting communications.
The Woodpeckers were inaugurated
oy General Lord, director of the
budget, to *‘peck away” continuously
at unnecessary expenses.
Vacationist Remembers
Cat; Calls Out Cops
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Chicago.—It was a quiet evening in
«he Oak Park police station when a
breathless messenger boy arrived with
a telegram from Recebert Regan, 533
South Wenonah avenue, Oak Park, |
who is in Eagle River, Wis.,, for his
vacation. !
‘I forgot about my cat when I went
away,” read the telegram. “He's been
alone without food in the house for
three days. Please rescue him.”
Sergt. William Koerber raced te the
Winona avenue address. He pried
open a window. A large cat leaped
out on him, scratched his face and
fled. A squad was called and searched !
the neighborhood. The cat finally was
found under a hedge. It distributed
more scratches before it was caught.
A second telegram arrived at the
station, “Please take care of Thomas
until I return,” it read. “He is a
good cat and deserved the best of care.”
four scratched Oak Park police- !
ment sent a reply. But the telegraph |
company wouldn't transmit it.
Man Eats but Fraction
of Total Food Supply
Yonkers, N. Y.—Burning 8,900,000,
u00,000 tons of coal, 8900 times as
much as the world produces in a year,
will release about as much energy
as contained in the sunlight captured
annually through the production of
plant foods. Of this huge total, the !
human race uses less than two-tenths |
of 1 per cent, according to an esti-
mate by Dr. John M. Arthur of the
Boyce Institute for Plant Research
here.
Jdvery day each one of the 1,750,000--
00 human beings on the earth con-
sumes about 2,000 calories of food.
Even meat comes indirectly from
plants. The human race is therefore
dependent on photosynthesis, the proc- |
ess by which the plant uses sunlight
to form food. The total consumption
of food during a year by man amounts
to about 1,200,000,000,000,000 calories.
All of the other animal life, vertebrate
or invertebrate, large or microscopic,
on the globe is estimated to consume
about six times this amount,
This Man Served on Jury
Every Year Since 1908
+femphis, Tenn.—\When it comes to
serving on the jury, Lawrence W.
Akers, a Memphis man, can tell all
about it. He served on some kind of
a jury every year since 1908.
ZIven though the duties of citizen-
snip at times threaten to break up his
home, ruin his business, and always
gives him a vacation that he doesn’t
want, Akers has had little luck in get-
ting out of jury service. When called
as a venireman the first few times he
acted with good grace, for he thought
he was performing a civic duty. But
with civic duty calling year after year,
Akers got tired.
But the judges laugh at his excuses
and ask for reasons, Akers stays on
the job.
below.
Horizontal.
1--Cigarette (Brit. slang)
4—Sod
8—Winter month (abbr).
11—Metal
14—Master
156—Girl’'s name (Fr.)
17—A list book of articles arranged
‘ in alphabetical order
13—Skill
i 19—Proverb 21—Storms
23—Wind instrument
25—Tablet
27—Shoemaker’s tools
29—Luke warm 81—To act
32—Beverage
33—Roll of tobacco
34—Projection on a fish
35—Preposition
36—Makes a noise like a contented
| cat
37—Telegraph wire
'38—To deface
38A-—Fur-bearing animal
39—Telegraphs (coll)
41—Projecting part of roof
43—To manage 45—To send in
47—Branches of learning
48—Electrified particle
50—Nevada city
51—Thing (Latin)
52—Photograph book
63—DMeshed material
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will
oth vertically and horizontally.
rw > ee! Bich refers to the definition listed below the pus,
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will 2
‘the white spaces up te the first black square to the right, and a number un 2
“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white rquares to the next black on
rs go in the biack spaces.
except terse Abbreviations, slang, initials, technieal terms and obso-
'lete forms are indicated im the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
The first letter in each word is
All words used are dictionary words,
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Vertical.
1—Evergreen tree 2—Extent
3—Venetian boat 6—Sun god
6—Part of a circle v
7—Male deer ’
8—Put away for future reference
9—God of love 10—To beseech
12—Approaches
14—Mixture of vegetables
16—Ovum 18—S. Amer. animal
20—Consumer 22—Stick
24—Member of African branch of
Ethiopian race
26—Sharpens a razor
28—Tumor of scalp
30—Sticky substance
31—Noise 33—DMore certain
34—Fire extinguishers
36—Separates
37—Fixed piece capable of being
turned about a fulcrum
38—Coins money 38B—Sailor
39—Was attired in
40—Earth
42—Trigonometric ratio
43—Vehicle 44—Tennis stroke
46—Child 49—Greek letter:
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.
Telephone 450
P. L. Beezer Estate
Market on the Diamond
BELLEFONTE, PA.
34-34
Solution will appear in next issue,
Penn State Alumni Plan Annual
Party.
Invitations to the fourth annual
summer party of the Pennsylvania
State College Alumni association to be
held at the Centre Hills country club
August 26 and 27 are being mailed
from the office of the organization
this week. Similar affairs held dur-
ing the summer for the past three
vears have been well attended and ex-
| ceptionally successful according to E.
'N. Sullivan, secretary of the associa-
‘tion, and he is expecting an increase
lin the number of members of the as-
sociation who avail themselves of the
: opportunity to visit the campus in the
interval between the summer session
‘and the fall term.
Saturday morning visitors will be
i taken for an inspection of the sites
for new buildings to be erected on the
campus soon. The program includes a
golf match and dinner in the evening.
Reservations for the party will close
Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle.
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and Mary Annetta Tressler, of State
College.
Marriage Licenses.
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SURETY BONDS EXECUTED
Hugh M. Quigley
Successor to H. E. FENLON
Temple Court,
Bellefonte, Penna.
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Wilson W. Lucas and Sadie J. Kel-
David Abraham Reese, of Lemont,
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children of school age ask for
and have a right to expect foot-
wear that is neat and dressy in appear-
ance, yet which is so well constructed
that it will give long service.
We Ask you to Put Our
School Shoes to this Test
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