Bemorralc Waldo,
“Bellefonte, Pa., September 2, 1927.
- Marvelous Stone Car
in Old Indian Temple
When the Mohammedans invaded
the kingdom of Vijayanagar in the
Sixteenth century, they wrought tre-
mendous havoc on all the great guild-
ings of that great city, says a writer
in a Calcutta paper. Today, as one
rambles over it, there is hardly to be
seen a structure that does not show
evidence of the iconoclastic proclivi-
ties of the invaders.
It is interesting to note that one of
the unique structures among the ruins,
a temple car made of stone, has ap-
parently been untouched. This is the
more striking as the temple, in the
courtyard of which the car stands, has
been terribly treated, some of the
finest carving in the whole city being
broken and shattered out of all shape.
This car is to be fonnd in the vicinity
of the Vitthalaswami temple, not far
from the river,
After first appearance one is in-
clined to think the car has been carved
out of a solid block of stone, but a
closer examination shows this is not
so. The joints between the various
parts are wonderfully well done, and
unless one looks at the structure care-
fully it is not surprising the impres-
sion of solidity should be given. The
pilgrims who visit the place believe
that they obtain merit by turning
round the wheels, which are also made
of stone. As a result of this devotion
the axle has become very much worn.
Two elephants of stone stand in front
of the car.
Ups and Downs
Dr. Marvin Shie, who, at the Amer-
fcan Medical association’s convention
in Washington, exposed the danger to
the health of tattooed permanent
flushes and tattooed red lips, said at
a dinner in Cleveland:
“Our beauty doctors sometimes dam-
age a woman's constitution as much
as her bank account.
“I heard a story the other day. A
man said:
“‘I understand that Mrs. Maturin
Mayhew, the society leader, has had
her face lifted.’
“‘Is that so?” said a second man. 9
don’t see any difference.’
“ ‘Well,’ said the first man, ‘it fell
again, I hear, when the beauty doctor
sent in his bill.”
Qualified Praise
“Uncle Joe” Cannon's biography,
written at his own request by his sec-
retary, L. W. Busbey, is the subject of
many amusing anecdotes of American
politics. Clinton Brainerd vouches for
this one. Cannon was once accosted
by a mew member of the house who
had just made his maiden speech. On
being asked if he approved of it,
“Uncle” Joe shifted his cigar to the
other side of his mouth and answered
judicially :
‘You said many
many new things.”
good things, and
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker,” said the |
new representative.
“But,” continued the venerabic
speaker, “the good things were not
new and the new things weren't good.”
Early Form of Banjo
the existence of instruments of the
(ute or guitar kind implies a certain
grade of knowledge and culture
among people who know how to
stretch strings over scundboards and
to determine the required intervals
by varying the vibrating length of the
strings. Such instruments found in
use by savage or very uncivilized peo-
ples suggest their introduction
through political or religious cen-
quest by a superior race. The Arans
may thus, or by trade, have bestowed
a guitar instrument on the negroes of
western Africa and the Senegambian
“bania” may be, as Mr. Carl Eagel
suggests, the parent of the American
negro’s banjo.
Uncle Sam’s Islands
* “ihe Philippine islands were ceded
.0 the United States by the treaty of
Paris, December 10, 1898, following
the Spanish-American war. By the
terms of this treaty the United States
paid to Spain $20,000,000 in connec-
tion with the relinquishment of all
claims to the Philippines, Porto Rico
and Guam, and under a later treaty
of November 7, 1900, a further pay-
ment of $100,000 was made to Spain
for the cession to the United Staies
of further islands of the Philippioe
archipelago.
Rest Gives Strength
from experiments on 18 college stu-
dents a Pitsburgh professor reaches
the conclusion that the longer one
stays in bed the more quietly he rests
and the better he withstands the
strain of the day’s activity, says Cap-
per’'s Weekly.
Made Double Catch
A farmer named Brown, living near
Kinston, N. C., set a steel trap in a
tree to catch a chicken-stealing hawk,
remarks Capper’s Weekly. Next morn-
ing he found the hawk in the trap
and in its talens a sixteen-inch trout.
French Name for Strait
Pas-de-Calais is the French name
for the Strait of Dover between Eng:
land and France, connecting the Eng:
lish channel with the North sea. The
part of France bordering on the strait
is the department of Pas-de-Calais.
MAY CARVE LINCOLN'S
FACE ON DIXIE MOUNT
Memorial Being Planned for
Cumberland Gap.
Harrogate, Tenn.—Pictvresque Cum-
berland gap, Tennessee-Virginia-Ken-
tucky, is to loom in the limelight at an
early date if plans mature which are
now under way. It has not been many
months since the country was attract-
ed by plans to carve the figures of
Gen. Robert E. Lee and his staff on
the mountain of stone near Atlanta.
This time it is planned to carve the
full figure of Abraham Lincoln on the
mighty limestone peaks towering
above Cumberland gap and surround-
ing valleys.
The figure of Lincoln will be more
than a hundred feet high and will be
carved out of the huge walls which
overhang the Dixie highway, jutting
out over forest, town and valleys. A
nationally known sculptor visited
Cumberland gap recently and was
charmed with the prospect of earving
a masterpiece which would attract
Lincoln lovers far and wide. He is
making plans and specitications for
this work of art and believes that it
can be done within two years’ time.
To Clear Away Timber.
When the figure is carved ana
stands out in bold relief the timber
will be cleared from the Dixie high-
way leading up to the feet of the moun-
mental and gigantic figure and the
slopes sown in grass. Then limestone
steps will be built leading up the
slope, making a sort of shrine where
men and women and children may
come and view the work of art and the
scenic grandeur of the cascades and
forests below.
The inspiration came from the Lin
<oln Memorial university. Indeed, the
| very precipice on which the figure will
be carved is on the grounds of the
Lincoln Memorial university and may
be seen from the campus.
To carve this figure on the over
aanging cliffs it will be necessary to
tie strong ropes to overhanging trees
and let the workmen down on scaffold-
ing a hundred feet or more. All mate-
rials, tools and supplies will have to
be carried up back of the mountain
and let down over Pinnacle peak, hun-
dreds of feet above even the cliffs
themselves. Pinnacle ‘peak towers
more than a thousand feet above the
base of the craggy slopes where the
form of Lincoln will appear in stone.
Due to the ruggedness of the slopes
and the steepness of the mountainside,
it will be necessary for tools and sup-
plies to be carried to the top by man
power, as cars cannot negotiate the
grade.
This will be the culmination of a se
les of historic events which cluster
around the village of Cumberland gap,
for, indeed, though the town dates back
into the dim and distant past, even
beyond the beginnings of Knoxville,
Nashville, Chattanooga and Lexington,
it has scarcely outgrown the village
class.
Cumberland Gap in History.
Notwithstanding the fact that Cum
Jeriand Gap ean number not more
than a thousand souls, the place has
a halo of glory about it and has con-
tributed its part in the making of na-
tional history. liven before the in-
trepid pioneer, Daniel Boone, piloted
the ancestry of the great Lincoln
through the gap into the bluegrass
region of Kentucky, Doctor Walker
stood on Pinnacle peak and named
the region the Cumberlands, after the
duke of Cumberland, and the gap he
named the Cumberland gap.
Then it happened that the three
states of Virginia, Kentucky and Ten-
nessee joined hands on the peak over-
looking the very precipice where the
figure of Lincoln will be carved. and
as tourists pass over the Dixie high-
way under. Pinnacle peak—and they
come from everywhere—they can gaze
on the figure of Lincoln and gather
some of the inspiration which has led
many a youth from his humble cabin
through the Lincoln Memorial univer-
sity up the heights to achievement,
The face of the mountain precipice
«8 peculiarly suited to such a work of
art. It is as if a mighty hand had cut
the mountain in two, like a loat ot
bread, leaving limestone ledges jut-
ting out 2,000 feet, on top of which
is Pinnacle peak, from which one may
see mountain ranges as far away as
Chattanooga and North Carolina, and
it is on this mountainside that the
figure of the emancipator will be
carved, overshadowing the campus of
the Lincoln Memorial university as a
perpetual reminder of him who had
“malice toward none and charity for
all.”
‘When the clouds of civil war hung
ike a dismal thunder-cloud over the
nation Cumberland gap was one of the
scenic points. Mighty armies con-
tended for that ground because it was
the gateway through the mountains
between the North and the South,
Many of the old trenches remain to
this day, and the figtre of Lincoln will
overlook some of the “bloody ground”
made famous by Civil war struggles,
and, indeed, will look down upon
“Hell's Half Acre,” famous In history
and story as a place of conflict in the
war and also because it has heard the
crack of the feudists’ rifles in days
gone by.
In Chicago!
New York.—Go to Chicago, Dilo-
genes! In an envelope postmarked
Chicago, Philip Elting, collector of the
port, has received $270 cash, the
anonymous sender explaining he owed
Uncle Sam that amount for articles
smuggled from Europe.
UNKNOWN UNCLE
WILLS MILLIONS
Fortune From Africa Goes to
Australia,
Sydney.—David White, middle-aged
Sydney business man, awoke one
morning to find himself heir to over
$1,250,000 in cash and $10,000,000
worth of real estate, a fortune
amassed by his uncle in diamond deal-
ing in South Africa.
Behind the inheritance is a story
revealing bleak depths of human bit-
terness and suffering. It goes back
to the middle of the last century,
when Solomon Wheinsky was a fur
dealer at Nishni-Novgorod in Russia.
Solomon revolted against the exorbi-
tant demands of the czarist taxgath-
erer,
business, disappeared mystariously
into the mines of Siberia.
Solomon Wheinsky and two sisters
fled. They suffered bitterly from cold
and hunger before they reached Riga,
whence they got aboard a smuggler’s
schooner and were taken to Amster-
dam, whence Solomon went to London
and his two sisters to the United
States. 2
Solomon Wheinsky settled in White-
chapel in 1852 and became a “kosher”
butcher. He married a Russian girl
and changed his name to White. He
had two sons, Abel and Aaron.
Aaron married outside his faith, and
so long was the continuance of bitter-
ness that Abel's son, David, decided
to start life afresh in Australia.
+S
His brother, a partner in the |
Meantime Aaron White had gone !
to South Africa, where he joined the
group of men about Cecil Rhodes, the
uncrowned king of South Africa for
the last fifteen years of the last cen-
tury. It was there that the fortune
which has fallen to David White was
amassed.
Aaron White traded in diamonds,
and he emerged from the welter of
those frightful days a wealthy man.
He employed his money in speculation
and grew richer.
Submarine Detector
to Be Used on Yeggs
New York.—A new barrier has been
placed between the bank robber and
his swag as a result of research by
the engineers of the Bell laboratories
here,
Already learned in the ways ot
<ops, night watchmen and the miles
of wire incidental to the usual elec-
tric alarm system, the robber may
now find himself up against a new
signal device invisible from the out-
side yet capable of calling a squad of
armed guards upon him as he works.
In fact, the safe-blower now works
under war-time conditions for the
new alarm is founded on the Type H
inertia microphone developed in the
laboratories during the war for sub-
marine detection,
This alarm consists of a micre
phone capable of detecting the most
minute vibrations of the walls of a
safe.
It has already been installed in |
several banks here and in Philadel- |
phia. The microphone will not pick |
up sound waves. The stimulus is re-
ceived mechanically rather than
acoustically. But the slightest jar
will be sufficient to set in motion an
electric current to the main office,
where both audible and visible sig-
nals will be received.
Such devices have been econceivea
oefore, But heretofore they have
transmitted vibrations and even
sounds from outside.
have been summoned when merely a
heavy truck was rumbling by or when
street conversation grew sufficiently
foud.
Smoke Blight in
Paris Brings Action
Paris.—The smoke and fumes of
his industrial age are putting blem-
ishes on the face of Paris.
Smoke has not only begun to black:
+n the once gray wall of Notre Dame,
hut the poisonous particles from fac-
tories and automobile exhaust pipes
are gnawing at the delicately carved
stonework. Already several pieces
have fallen from Notre Dame, from
the palace of justice and from other
celebrated buildings. Even the Made-
leine, the classie Nineteenth century
church at the head of the Rue Royale,
had to be repaired and cleaned from
steps to roof this year,
“The city of Paris has appointed a
commission to see what can be done
about it,
FE HH EO HE OH OH
Mother Quail Lures
Brood Away From Hen
Midldetown, Conn.—Arthur B.
Meeks, who has a bungalow on
the shores of Lake Pocotopaug
in East Hampton, is sponsor for
this story:
A mother quail was situng on
seventeen eggs in a hay field
when the mowers drove her
away. John Saltus, the mower,
gave the eggs to Mr. Meeks,
who divided them and set them
under two brooding hens, A
skunk invaded one nest, but the
other hen hatched eight of the
eggs. Meeks says the mother
quail kept an eye on the pro-
: ceedings and, when the foster
; mother was scratching worms
for the hungry brood, flew to the
% nest and lured the baby quail
. away. There is now one bewil
- dered and puzzled hen in East
Elampton,
Thus, guards |
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this pumsle will
spell words both vertieally and horizontally.
The first letter in each word is
below the puzzle.
ated by a number, which refers to the definition listed
aa. No. Au the ’column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will mn
‘the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number un a2
i“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black on
below.
No letters go im the black spaces.
All words used are dictionary words,
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technieal terms and obso-
| lete forms are indicated im the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1. .
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(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal.
1—Hair trimmer 6—To leave
10—Cleared a room of smoke
12—Scheme 14—Preposition
16—A plait 18—Titled nobleman
20—Movement of head
22—Celerity 24—Falsehood
25—Expires 27—To begin
29—Father 30—Observes
p2—Slumber 34—TLeather strips
B6—Small candles
B8—Compartment in a stable
#0—Coal pit 41—To proceed
43—To bend over
46—Woman-of rank
¢7—Part of a circle
¢9—Persons 51—Part of mouth
p2—Scarce
p4—Shoshonean Indian
p6—Preposition
p9—To strike
82—Limb
57—To jump
81—Order of law
Solution will appear in next issue.
Vertical.
1—Light colored 2—Sun god
8—Napkin 4—Makes a mistake
b—Harvests 7—Preposition
8—Sick 9—Implement
11—Prescribed course of food (pl.)
13—Journey
15—To pass off as genuine
17—Distributed 19—Apportions
21—Elk (pl) 23—Hallucination
26—Benches 28—Lukewarm
31—Galiters
33—Pertaining to punishment
34—Sweetening agent
35—Kind of sailboat
37—To send in 39—Boy’s name
42—By word of mouth
44—Sounding lead
46—Event marking beginning of
new period
483—Workmen on a ship
50—To mix 53—Auditory organ
b5—Greek letter
68—Jumbled type 860—Half an em
mm————
Odd Power of Light Rays
By the use of cleverly controlled
rays of colored lights and a refrac-
tion screen, a Washington artist is
able to make things invisible, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. At a
demonstration a person sitting In a
chalr was suddenly “dissolved from
sight” while the chair remained. Aec-
cording to reports, the late Houdini
was to have employed this system in
causing an entire audience to disap-
pear. The “magic” of the stunt ig
based on certain laws of light and
vision and emphasized the fact thaf
our eyes are dependent upon light
rays for what they see.
Their Occupation
“What is going on here?’ asked &
cisitor in Petunia. “I have noticed
quite a number of young men sneak-
ing around corners, peering into win-
dows, hiding behind ash barrels, meas-
uring places on the ground, remark-
Ing ‘Hist!’ and the like.”
“Them’s graduates of a College ox
Detection, up to Kay See, and they are
trying to detect erime,” replied Con-
stable Slackputter, the well-known
sleuth. “But as long as they don’t
do anything but try to detect, I can't
very well arrest 'em.”—Kansas City
Star.
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Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle.
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“Firemen, Save My Cow,”
Farmer’s Call—They Did
Jefferson City, Mo.—The most un-
usual order the fire department has re-
ceived came recently when Jim Roark
telephoned :
“Come rescue my cow.”
The department made a hasty run,
expecting a fire at the big dairy barn,
and found that the order had come in
after the cow had become mired in
the mud.
Only the cow’s head and shoulders
were showing above the mud. The
animal was finally removed.
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