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Valley at State College; October 1, | October 22, Syracuse at Syracuse, N. |12, New York University at State
Gettysburg at State College; October Y.; October 29, Lafayette at State College; November 24, Pittsburgh at
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Everlasting Fires in
Region of Desolation
Few regions are more remarkable
than those near the Caspian sea. The
waters of the sea once stretched far
orth and joined the Arctic ocean, but
®ow, after countless ages, they have
receded to their present limits. Vast
stretches of waste and barren land
are left where the waters once extend-
€d—deserts of reddish clay, with or-
c¢asional marshes.
This is the region known as the
“Land of Everlasting Fire.” After sun-
set, leaping up on all sides from rents
in the interminable plain, rise ghostly,
dancing tongues of flame, untarnished
by smoke, casting a lurid light al
around.
Dotted about lie squat temples, from
whose pinnacles rise columns of fierce
flame, the dread gods incarnate of the
fire-worshipers. The columns are said
to have burnt continuously since the
birth of Confucius.
The everlasting fires are not the dis-
embodied souls of dead men and de-
mons, as the natives believe, but are
due to torrents of gas which stream
from underground regions, and are is
nited spontaneously.
It is possible to dig a small hole and
then, by applying a live coal, cause
‘it to burst into flames. If a tube of
Paper is stuck about two inches in the
ground, and the top of it touched with
a live coal, a flame will issue from fit,
but if the edges of the paper have
been smeared with clay it will not
take fire,
Easy to Attain Long Life
A Korean “holy man,” Sai Ki Nan,
has been telling Tokyo how to live to
be three hundred and fifty years old.
He ran across his astounding secret,
he says, a generation ago, when he
found in some sacred books records of
men who lived to be five hundred
years old. The reascn given for such
extraordinary longevity was that these
folk eschewed food almost entirely,
Hved on bark and water and spent
their time in study.
Sai Ki Nan, after diligent research,
found the right sort of bark, built his
hut in the forest and settled down to
two hundred and ninety years more,
He eats seven little bark cakes a day,
sleeps two hours out of the twenty-
four, gives himself a daily massage,
and has a system of exercises based on
Buddhist writings.
Wise Mr. Laemmle
To many persons deafness is an af-
Biction, but it is one of “Uncle” Carl
Laemmle’s charms, says Photonlay
Magazine.
At his new home in Beverly Hills
he frequently sits on the side lines of
the tennis courts watching members
of the younger generation cavorting
while he transacts business with his
executives.
The other day a newcomer to his
official family shouted himself red ig
the face trying to explain his proposi-
tion to Uncle Carl.
“You necedn’t shout,” Mr. Laemmlo
Anally said, mildly. “I usually heae
what I want to hear.”
found Out
Dr. F. X. tells of a woman who told
her physician of her pains and symp-
toms, forgetting none. At the end of
the recitation the doctor asked how
old: she was. She replied that she
was forty. Deciding that a look at
her blood pressure might help in a
diagnosis the doctor made prepara-
tions for same, attaching the rubber
part of the testing machine to her
arm. Turning her head to witness
the demonstration, the now much
alarmed patient, noted the indicator
rapidly rising, thirty, thirty-five, forty,
when she interrupted the doctor with,
“Gh, I'm sorry; I see you can find out
my age with that machine. I am rea!
ly forty-eight.”—Boston Globe.
Book Preserver
A coat of varnish may be applied
aver the finest tooled leather or other
book binding without fear of injuring
the color or appearance in any way.
The idea is a good one for the protec-
tion of rare old books, since the var-
nish forms a moist-proof, wear-resist-
ing coat which will preserve the cover
indefinitely. It is a good idea, too, for
children’s books, which soon show
finger prints and other signs of wear;
or for the cook book, which is likely
to become spotted and sticky. The
washable varnish makes the binding
neater and the book more sanitary
“Alterations to Please”
The smiling little man bustled into
the tailor’s and asked to see some
ready-made suits. He was given a
choice. “I'll take this one,” he said,
“if you'll make any alterations I re-
quire.” “Certainly, sir,” beamed the
taflor. “All alterations free, sir—you
read our advertisement.” “I did,” said
the customer. “Just alter the price,
then, from forty dollars to twenty-five
and I'll take the suit with me.”
Western Story
Sir: A judge in a small Western
town was determined to stop the boys
from shooting in the town. One day
one of the boys got drunk and started
to shoot up the place. When he was
brought before the judge he was given
“Twenty dollars and costs.” “But
Judge,” be said, “I fired into the air."
“That's all right,” said the judge,
“you might have shot an angel.”
Individual Earning Power Cut
$20 by Sickness.
Washington.—Industrial America is
absorbing $2,000,000,000 doctor's bill
annually, Premature deaths cost an-
other $6,000,000,000 in economic losses.
Despite striking progress made In
checking some diseases in the last
decade, the earning power of every
person in the United States is reduced
an average of almost $20 a year
through ill health.
These facts were made public in
Some impressive statistics compiled by
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. Through them the
chamber hopes to call attention of
business men and manufacturers to
the enormous toll sickness and pre-
ventable deaths exact from the ng:
tion’s earning power.
The final price industries pay for
sickness has never been determined,
the chamber declares, Only estimates
may be presented, based upon records
obtained from varied sources.
One manufacturere with an annual
pay roll approximating $5,000,000 esti-
mated illness among his employees
cost $287,500 annually. This includes
charges for idle machinery and re-
duced production.
The loss to the individuals and the
community due to illness of his em-
ployees is placed at $303,000 a year,
taking into consideration direct loss
of wages, lowered earning capacity
during convalescence, medical ey.
penses and charitable relief.
In the business world, a representu-
tive group of stores, the chamber says,
showed that illness and injury cost
each employee an average of six days
a year.
For a working force of 1,000 per-
sons, earning an average of $3 daily,
this totals up to $18,000 a year tr
direct wage loss alone,
The chamber points out that encour-
aging progress has been made In
checking disease. The future prom-
ises even greater strides in this direc-
tion through improved sanitary con-
ditions.
Tuberculosis, diphtheria typhoid,
influenza and pneumonia, which once
exacted the greatest toll in human
life, are being brought more under con-
trol each year, the chamber declares.
Reduction of the tuberculosis mortal-
ity rate alone, since 1900, means a
saving to the nation of $2,000,000,000
a year, it is estimated.
College Girls’ Diaries
Read in Mental Test
Hamilton, N. Y.—“I had a weird
dream last night, but I don’t remem-
ber it,” says college girl number one
ingenuously, and college girl number
two shrieks with laughter at the ab:
surdity of remembering what yor
don’t remember.
This type of foolish Jesting is the
sort -of humor that appeals most wide-
ly to the feminine collegian, judging
from “humor diaries” kept by ps
chology students at Vassar college
The diaries were kept in connee-
tion with an experiment to find out
whether people are at all consistent
in enjoying one kind of funny situa-
tion more than another, according to
Polyxenie Kambouropoulou, who has
reported the investigation to Indus-
trial Psychology. Over one-third of all
the humorous incidents recorded by
the students belong to one class. she
found. Mental inferiority is the basis
of these jokes, which are aimed at
mistakes, ignorance, absent-minded-
ness, naive remarks, laughing at one’s
own foolishness, social breaks an<
»lunders,
A close study of what each student
found mest ridiculous indicates that
“laughing at nothing in particular” is
a trait more likely to be found amoung
students of lower academic standing
North Coast Indians Too
Prosperous to Take Jobs
Puyallup, Wash.—North coast In-
dians of Washington and British Co-
lumbia are too prosperous this year
to accept work in the berry and hop
fields here. Thus far only six families
have arrived from reservations to get
their old jobs. The big hauls of fur
seal, salmon, and bounties from sea
lions have enabled most of the red men
to deposit money enough in banks for
a summer's rest and recreation, which
they dearly loved. Usually several
thousand Indians from numerous
tribes migrate here in summer under
special government permission to get
family jobs.
Rome Began Permanent
Wave Back in 198 A. D.
Princeton, N. J.—The perma-
nent wave iS not an invention
of modern hairdressers but
was known to Roman women
as early as 68 A. D. Shirley
H. Weber, associate professor
in Princeton university, de-
clared here recently. Professor
Weber said this was clearly in-
dicated on coins in the collec-
tion at the university library.
In the late Roman period, he
said, women’s heads are rep-
resented not only with distinct
marcelling, but also with elab-
orate jewelry to emphasize the
waves. The realistic art of this
period, he sald, would forbid
the representation of these
styles if they were not actually
in use, o
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The Penna. State College football
team is in the thick of its pre-season
training period this week, practice
having begun September 1st. The
first game on the schedule comes Sep-
tember 24. A squad of nearly fifty
candidates reported for the first prac-
tice and this number is expected to be
increased when the late arrivals re-
port. The squad this year is consid-
erably larger than any to report for
several seasons, and followers of the
Lions are hopeful of an improved
record in the 1927 campaign.
A fair lot of veteran material is on
hand for the coaches this year. Only
four first regulars from the 1926 team
were lost through graduation. Of
the available men this fall captain
Johnny Roepke, Cy Lungren, Steve
Hamas, Allie Wolff, Johnny Pincura,
Bernard Harrington, Harold Danger-
field, and Johnny McCracken are like-
ly prospects for backfield positions.
On the line Hastings, Krall, Darragh,
Weiland, Moore, Panaccion, and
Livermore are probable choices for
varsity positions. Roger Mahoney,
centre, will be back at his old post
with Parana and Shuler in reserve.
Ends will be picked from Delp, Slamp,
Curry, Falkner, and McPhie.
Penn State faces an unusually
heavy schedule this fall with six of
the nine opponents regarded as of
the highest calibre. The full sched-
Solution te Last Week's Puzzle.
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School Shoe Quality
OTHERS buying Shoes for their
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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Graduate of Haverford College
Graduate of Pittsburgh Law School
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Attended University of Pa. Law School
BY EXPERIENCE
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No Opinion or Order Ever Reversed
16 Years Active and Successful Practice
in Courts of Centre and Clearfield
Counties
Respected by All who Know Him
Possesses Abundance of Common Sense
Owes Allegiance to None but the People
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