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Easter Island Statue
May Be Earth’s Oldest
The world’s most ancient statue is
to be found outside, not inside, the
British museum.
It is sald that it took two hundred
men from the crew of H. M. S. Topaz,
and three hundred natives, to drag
the statue from its original site, al-
though it weighs only four tons, It
is the work of a race of huge build-
ers and was one of many similar co-
lossal statues, some of them weighing
as much as a hundred tons, scattered
over Easter island, In the Pacific
These hideous images were origi
nally supplied with hats, In some.
cases weighing another five or six
tons, which were red because they
were made of tufa or volcanic rock.
All the hats have fallen off now and
are found lying around the huge
statues as though there had been »
thigh wind.
This race of ancient builders left
traces in the shape of immense stone
monuments right across the Pacific,
and many archeologists think that the
Island on which these monuments are
found is the last remnant left above
the surface of a vast submerged con-
tinent. There is nothing which fixes
the exact period of this achievement,
but it is possible that the statues are
at least as old as the pyramids of
Egypt.
Daddy Evidently Had
Some Things to Write
Willie (very seriously)—Papa, I had
a strange dream.
Papa—Indeed! What was it?
Willie—1 dreamed, papa, that I died
and went to heaven; and when St. Pe
ter met me at the gate, instead of
showing me the way to the golden
street, as 1 expected, he took me out
into a large field, and in the middle
of the field there was a ladder reach:
ing up into the sky and out of sight
Then St. Peter told me that heaven
was at the top, and that in order to
get there 1 must take the big piece
of chalk he gave me and slowly climb
the ladder, writing on each rung some
sin I had committed.
Papa (laying down his newspaper)
—And did you finally reach heaven,
my son? :
Willie—No, papa, for just as I wa
trying to think of something to write
on the second rung I looked up and
saw you coming down.
Papa—And what was I coming down
for?
Willie—That's what 1 asked you
and you told me you were coming for
more chalk.—After Dinner Stories.
Left Fatherland Behind -
Marie Antoinette’s eventful life iu
france began at Strasbourg, or rather
upon a small island in the Rhine in
front of the Alsatian capital. There,
in a pavilion decorated with Gobe:
lin tapestries,~8he paused on her way
to become the wife of the dauphin, af
terward Louis XVI. She entered by a
door on the east side. After a com
plete change of clothing, symbolic of
her renunciation of all connections
with her native country, Austria, she
emerged on the west or French side.
Her Austrian escort remained behind.
replaced by a guard sent by Louis
XV. The chief magistrate of Stras
bourg addressed her in German.
‘Don’t speak German,” she said.
chough she had just learned the new
tongue she was henceforth to speak
“From today I understand onl)
French.”"—Kansas City Star.
Teaching Lip Reading
for the benefit of children whose
aearing happens to be defective, it is
the custom at present in many states
to give those thus afllicted the benefit
of some special Instruction in lip
reading. The best way of handling
this problem, it has been demon
strated, is by having teachers who are
especially trained to go from school
to school for this purpose. The
classes are small, usually not more
than six or eight students, and the
advantages of the plan is that it en-
ables children to continue their regu
lar work in the school classes which
suits the parents better than sending
them to special schools. It is also
more economical from the standpoint
of the educational authorities.
Interesting Fossil Area
rhe Joggins section of Nova Scotin
nas been recognized since the days of
the great geologistd, Logan and Lyell,
as affording the finest example In the
world of fossil coal measure forests.
The section is now represented in
Canada’s national museum at Ottawa
by a series of upright trunks with a
background of a carboniferous land
scape and a panoramic view of the
Joggegins section. The stumps with
their great expanse of roots form what
is considered by many familiar with
foreign museums to be the finest ex:
hibit of its kind in any museum,
Heaters for the Ocean
Artificial heating of the ocean 1s to
oe tried out at Westerland, Germany.
a popular seaside resort, in order to
provide all-the-year-round bathing.
Huge electric heaters will be installed
to raise the water's temperature and
rob a winter dip of its chill. Heated
bathing cabins and covered ways lead:
ing to the water, says Popular Science
Monthly, will be provided for the
bathers’ comfort.
Benefit of Thorough
Training Made Plain
Once upon a time there was a Ui-
tle boy who was imbued with the am
bition to become a great novelist
One day he said to his father:
“Dad, 1 wish to become a great
writer, the author of books which will
entertain the world. What shall V
write about?”
“Son, you should write about ad
venture,” replied the loving fathet.
The parent, who wished for his son
a great success and a place in the
Hall of Fame, gave his entire time to
the education of the offspring.
The boy was taken all over the
world to get first-hand information
regarding every sort of land and
every kind of people. He was shown
everything that had to do with adven
ture. He was taken to Iceland and
to the South Sea islands so that he
would know every clime and every
country.
He was taken across plains and
deserts and ranges of mountains. He
was taught, from actual experience.
about typhoons and hurricanes and
cyclones. His education was lacking
in nothing that would form a ground
werk for wonderful stories of the ad
ventures of men under the most try
ing circumstances.
And so it came to pass that the son
repaid his father for all that he had
done for him, out of the proceeds of
the sale of his first book, the title of
which was, “Her Passionate Hour,”=—-
Boston Globe.
Apologetic Man Gets
Little Out of Life
A really gifted financier can coin
the golden sunshine and the silvery
laughter and make two bank accounts
grow where but one grew before, all
on a capital as ethereal as the blue
dome overhead, comments the Muncie
Evening Press.
But the apologetic man can't ex-
change a $10 gold piece for $5. Any
dominant personality with blue-shav-
en, square jaws can look the little
fellow over and after piercing with a
glance the latter's shifting eye, tell
that the honest but bashful man is a
crook. The grocer looks over the
self-apologist coldly and bites the
coin that is handed over the counter
hefore condescending to accept it
And, somehow, the apologist always
has a way of wearing his clothes like
he had stolen them off a clothesline
somewhere, and he can’t put up a
“front” without he has better attir-
than he can afford.
The humble man never gets credit
for anything until he dies, and then
the preacher, casting around for some
thing good to say of him, puts in the
worst knock of all by saying: “BH:
hadn't an enemy in the world.”
A Cold Day
doing throughiMontana recently we
«ot into conversation with a native
son of that great state. “Gets pretty
cold up here in the winter, doesn’t
it?” we observed, with considerable
originality.
“Well,” replied the Montaniay,
‘there’s a statue of Old Man Wil
baugh, the pioneer cattle king. on a
little hill over in Golden valley. There
he stands with his hands hanging
helplessly at his sides, while he gazes
forever across the plains he loved
But, believe me or not, it got so
blamed cold up here once last winter
that the old man had to keep his
hands in his pants pockets all day
long.”—Harry Daniel, in Thrift Maga.
zine,
Training French Sailors
Salt water is three hours from.
faris by train, and longer still by
boat, but there is a school there that
promises to teach all about deck or
engine recom duties. Correspondence
courses are open to lads in the prov-
inces, far up in the mountains away
from the smell of the sea. The ma-
rine school in Paris has begun to
placard the country with the French
equivalent of the American slogan.
“Join the navy and see the world.”
The professors, in grading papers,
may look from: the school’s windows
upon the peaceful Seine, whose Pari-
sian bosom supports nothing more im
portant than tugs, barges and excur-
sion boats.
Huge Python
The longest snake of which there is
authentic record was a python cap-
tured in Malaysia and shipped to the
Tierpark at Hamburg, Germany. This
snake died immediately after reaching
port, and was stretched on the deck
of the steamer and measured by Dr.
Arthur Irwin, then director of the
Philadelphia Zoological society. It
measured a few inches over thirty
feet in length and weighed close to
300 pounds. This species, the regal
or reticulated python (Python reticu
latus) is the largest species of serpent.
It is alleged to attain a length of 35
feet.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Silent Pearl Peddlers
Chinese pearl peddlers are the talk
of Paris, because they seem to avoid
talk themselves. People become in-
terested in the small, quiet merchants
who stand silently out of the way of
sidewalk traffic. with many strings of
false pearls on their arms. Their eyes
alone are in motion searching the
crowds for customers. AS soon as
they notice a slight hesitation they
smile, and the smile seems to bring
the prospective buyer to then. A
hundred of these sidewalk sellers
have formed a coiony in Paris. They
come from the province of Chekiang.
Thickest Cable in the East Laid
in South New Jersey Waters
Lower view shows the
cable being loaded on
the barge and the
upper view shows it
being paid off from
the rear of the barge
indo the harbor.
Almost two miles of heavily armored submarine cable was recently
placed by the Bell Telephone Company across the harbor between North
Wildwood and Stone Harbor, N. J. This cable, which was laid in record
time, is the thickest cable of its kind in the East and is the final link in a
greater system of inter-connecting telephone lines joining Philadelphia with
South Jersey resorts. The cable is four inches in diameter and contains
almost a hundred pairs of wires.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puszie will
spell words both vertically and horizemtally. The first letter in each word is
indieated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will Sif
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number unde?
“yertical” defines a word which will ll the white squares to the mext black ome
below. No letters wo In the black spaces. All words nxed are dictionary words,
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, Initials, technical terms and ebse=
lete forms are indicated in the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
1 2 34 I 5 | |7 |8
q 10 1 12
14 15 16
17 3 19 20 I 21
22 23 [I I 24
25 26 | [27 28
100 1 E11
31 [32 33 [4 35 |35A [36 I
37 38 39
40 MMT 42 43 [44 [ 145
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52 [52 53 54
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(©. 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Vertical.
1-—Emotion of fear and abhorrence
2-—Part of “to be”
Horizontal.
1—To detest
5—Heroine of an opera bearing her
name 8—Beverage
9—A farce 4—Small whirlpool
11—Drill hall for troops b—Extent
13—Conjunétion 6-—Scamp
7—To achieve
8—Major blood vessel
9—Piece of money
10—Personal pronoun
11—Part of a circle
12—In time long past
18—New Zealand parrot
20—Shy 21—T¢ jump
23—Song poem
14—Fuss
16—Ribbed material
16—Preposition
17—To worry
19—Plant with long pointed leaves
and large white blossom
21—That woman
22—Christmas song
24—A hole in the skin
25—A beam “24—Hymn of praise
26—Organ of head 26—To finish
28—A scout 27-—The night before
31—Green fruit used as relish (pl.)
32—A marsh 34—A lubricant
86A—Snakelike fish
86—Deals with
837—To cry like a donkey
39—Not difficult
29—To hasten
30—By way of
33—Female deer
37—Minority group
40—Horse drawn vehicle
41—Water in the bottom of a boat
31—Japanese sash
35—To permit
38—Bare
46—Meadow 41—-Side of a stream
46—Avenue (abbr.) 47—Consume 42— Impersonal possessive pronoun
48—Cereal 50—Like 43-—Obtained 4—To merit
51—Longs for 53—A pact 47—Sea eagle 49—Mound of earth
55—To0 be submerged under water 62—Three-toed sloth :
$6—Meshed material (pl.) 54—Preposition
Solution will appear in next issue.
AARONSBURG
Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle.
Albert Hill, of Austin, was a re-
cent guest of his brother-in-law, Wm.
Wance.
Ammon Steffen, of Danville, spent
Sunday with his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armagast.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pike, their
son, daughter and granddaughter,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. L
King over the week-end.
Mrs. Herman Haupt, of Philadel-
phia, is the guest of her cousins, Mr.
and Mrs. John Mohr Otto, at the
homestead on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Shem Aurand, of Mil-
roy, pent Sunday afternoon with Mrs.
Aurand’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Stover, on north 2nd st. vin Troup, and son Louis and four
John Burrell, of Akron, Ohio, ac- | daughters, of Bellefonte, were guests
companied by his cousin, Mrs. Horace | during the week at the home of their
Stover, of Youngstown, were recent | uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. | Hull.
J. I. Burrell and Mrs. Anna Bower. Mrs. Anna. Bower : was ealled: to
Mrs. J. G. Eisnehauer, who has been | Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday, by
seriously ill for the past two weeks, is | the illness of her daughter, Ethel, who
very little better. Her children have | is attending school there. A heavy
returned to their respective homes, | cold was followed by pneumonia and
leaving her son and his wife in charge. | her friends here hope for her speedy
Mrs. C. I. Bower motored up to | recovery.
State College, Sunday morning. From | poy and Mrs. G. A. Fred Greising
there rhe accompanied her sister and spent a part of last week in Hazle-
family to Altoona, where they spent |i, “hore they were guests of rela-
the day visiting Mr. and Mrs. Edward | ives and friends. En route home, on
Taylor. ; Thursday, they attended a special ses-
Dr. and Mrs. J. Finley Bell and | sion of the West Susquehanna Classis
their niece, Miss Kessinger, . of En-|that were held in Mifflinburg that day.
glewood, N. J.; Mrs. C. C. Bell, Mrs. :
Frank B. Patton, C. Earl Bell and
Richard Laird, of Huntingdon; Mr. :
and Mr. Wm. S. Chambers and daugh- | paper to seé what is going on.
ter, Miss Martha, Mr. and Mrs, Cal- | scribe for the Watchman.
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