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Bellefonte, Pa., February 15, 1929.
THE END OF THE TRAIL.
The end of the trail may be far away,
It may be just around the bend.
1 have not followed this trail before
And I know not where it will end.
I know not where its windings lead—
Thru desert or valley fair,
Or whether thru mountains or canyons deep
With dangers lurking there.
But I know a Guide who can lead me thru,
Who knows every step of the way.
He'll lead me thru to the end of the trail,
Be it near or far away.
He will guide me across the narrow ledge
That hangs o'er the deep ravine,
And lead me safely by hidden foes
And dangers that are unseen.
And while in the Valley of deepest Shades
He will take me by the hand
And lead me thru to the other side
And into the Promised Land.
—M. V. Thomas.
CHANGE IN MAP OF COUNTRY |
POSSIBLE.
A general realignment of state
boundaries, including the creation of
new States and, perhaps, the disap-
pearance of some, is a possibility.
Whether or not the consolidations
would equal divisions is uncertain,
but any such plan would be more
likely to add stars to the blue field of
the United States Senate. ;
No nation grows according to pre- ;
conceived plan. At one time in the
early history of America, Charleston,
S. C, was as important a port as
New York City, and even Alexandria,
Va., was nearly so. Yorktown, Va.,
now a town of only 500 inhabitants, |
was an important port of entry. Ben-
jamin Franklin, in his autobiography,
tells of a contemporary of his who
refused to buy a dwelling and instead |
rented a house or lodgings because of |
his firm conviction lasting through-
out his life, that Philadelphia could
not possibly increase in size but
would dwindle away and investors in |
|
real estate would lose.
It must be remembered that these |
cities were in existence under the
British crown for about the same
length of time they have been under
the American flag and yet the new
republic was several decades old be-
fore it became a certainty that New
York was to be the metropolis of the
Western world.
It took more than two centuries for
New York to reach an undisputed
place in the front rank of the devel-
opment of air transportation, and |
some other city, Chicago, perhaps, or |
St. Louis might yet out-distance her. |
So state lines laid down genera- |
tions ago do not fit as well as origin-
ally and there is occasional agitation
for drastic changes. That other peo- |
ple in the world besides Americans
are interested is revealed by. the fact
that the proposal to make New York |
City and its environs a separate State
was the subject of a paper read be- |
fore a recent meeting of the British |
Association for the Advancement of
Science. os
The reasons are both political and
economic. New York City is Dem-
ocratic and because of its huge pop-
ulation often elects a Democratic
Governor and state officers. The rest
of the State is normally Republican
and frequently elects a Republican |
legislature. This means a certain |
amount of disharmony. New York |
City pays an enormous amount of the
“total tax bill of the State and the
_citizens of the metropolis pay for im-
provements of roads, public works
and the like in other parts of the
state, which they never use or even
see.
A similar suggestion has been made
in respect to St. Louis and its envi-
rons. It too, isa great port and com-
mercial center. In fact, St. Louis
manufacturers and other business
men, in their national advertising, al-
ready use the slogan, “The Forty- !
ninth State.”
Chicago has been proposed as an-
other new State. Here again isa case
in which there is a great metropolis
paying a large share of the taxes of
the State within which it lies. It is |
a lake port, and by way of the Wel- |
land canal, a seaport. It is the great-
est railway center in the world. It
is often of different political complex-
jon from the remainder of the State.
It has been proposed to divide the
vast State of Texas, which formerly
was an independentre public, into four
States. The area is so extensive
that the type of people and the type
of industry and agriculture in some
parts is greatly different from that of
others.
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BIRTH RATE DROPS
TO 1910 AVERAGE.
The lowest birth rate since 1910
occured in Pennsylvania during 1928,
according to figurees announced to-
day by the State Bureau of Vital Sta-
tistics. Approximately 8,000 less
babies were born in 1928 than in
1910. The significant fact, according
to the bureau of vital statistics, is
that while the birth rate has heen
reduced by 8,000 over the 1910 fig-
ures the increase in population dur-
i the same period has been 2,197,-
While a few delayed reports are
yet to arrive, bureau officials are
nevertheless convinced that this rec-
ord will not be materially changed.
Sap is Running in Maple Groves.
Maple sap is runing in Geauga
county. The unprecented variations
in temperature have not been
without their compensations, ac-
cording to owners of nearby maple
groves. The sap which does not or-
dinarily run until spring has been
spouting freely during the past few
days. Lynn Hosford, who lives on
the outskirts of Chardon has tapped
800 trees and is already assured of an
‘machine.
abnormally early sugar crop.
State Secrets Hidden
by Absorbent Roller
Every foreign office in Europe acts
on the theory that an army of spies
is constantly on the alert to steal its
secrets, and infinite precautions are
taken to baffle thelr efforts. Very
shortly after the first use of blotting
paper it was discovered that it was
quite possible to cause a blotting pad
to give np secrets by simply holding
it in front of a mirror. Long after all
the commercial world had forgotten
the existence of such a thing, the Brit
ish foreign office used a sandshaker
to dry its important written docu-
ments, of which there are still many
despite the use of the typewriting
Then specially manufac
tured black blotting paper was used.
but this was not found to be absolute
ly spyproof and a return to the sand-
shaker was contemplated when some
one suggested the simple expedient of
a small absorbent roller. These rollers
have since been used for drying dip-
lomatic documents. When such a
roller has been run up and down and
across a document once or twice, the
cleverest spy in the world is at liberty
to try his hand at deciphering the im-
pressions.
Farmers of Country
Owe Much to “Dream”
Wisconsin farmers have erected a
granite monument to the memory of
John F. Appleby, who was known
throughout the Mid-West a generation
ago as an expert whittler in wood.
He helped farmers throughout the
world by inventing the first machine
+o tie sheaves of grain automatically.
According to Farm and Fireside,
Appleby was eighteen years old when
he whittled his way to fame by his
, invention. He had grown tired from
| bending to bind grain by hand in a
Wisconsin harvest field, and so he
spent an evening “dreaming” of a
machine which would do this work.
He whittled out a model of his inven-
tion, which he perfected in 1858. It is
still almost identical with the design
used all over the world on grain bind.
ers today.
Tent Within a Tent
“Several winters ago 1 hecame ac-
quainted with a method of winter
camping which I believe was, and is,
just about as ingenious as one would
expect to meet with in many a moon,”
writes Robert Page Lincoln in Forest
and Stream. “A trapper showed me
the trick. It involved the use of two
wall tents. The one tent as I remem.
ber it, was nine by eleven while the
other was twelve by fourteen. The
smaller tent was erected inside of
the larger tent. A good job had been
done of pegging down and stretching
hoth of these tents. The result was
that the outer tent was a windbreak
par excellence and that even in’ the
coldest winter weather the inside was
well protected, the camp stove, a box
affair, keeping an even temperature
within.”
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Too Exacting
One day a fashionably dressed man
entered Howell's music store in Bris-
tol and asked to see some piano music.
Howell put before him the latest
sonatas, just published. The strange=
‘ooked at them, then said: i
«1 do not care for these, 1 do no
‘ike them, show me something better.”
«Something better?’ Howell ex-
claimed rather impatiently. “There is |
nothing better! I am sorry not to be
able to serve you. Good day, sir.”
The stranger smilingly replied: a1 |
have written these myself, 1 ap
Haydn.” : :
At which Howell fell on his neck
overjoyed to make the acquaintance
of the great composer. They became |
fast friends.—Kansas City Star.
‘Reindeer Swept Away
The Lap tribes in the northernmost
part of Norway recently suffered the
almost irreparable loss of 50 per cent
of their reindeer. As is customary,
more than 2,000 head of reindeer had
gone to their feeding ground on Ma-
geroe island. The only way of tran-
sporting this great herd is to make
the reindeer swim across the narrow
strait separating the island from the
mainland. While the herd was re-
cently being driven back by the same
route, more than 1,000 reindeer were
caught in the swift current of the
strait and were carried out to sea
where they drowned.
Disillusioned
1 always thought Jenkins was rath.
er bright.
He made a radio set out of some
nay wire and a few spark plugs.
He could catch trout with some
oinder’s twine, some remnant cheese
and a hairpin.
By sniffing at an exhaust pipe he
gnew which cylinder was missing.
I always thought he was rather
clever.
But this morning he called in a re
pair man to change the ribbon on his
typewriter.—Boston Globe.
Had Faith in Perfumes
Sages and lawglvers, Solon, Lycur-
gus, Socrates, railed in vain against
the extravagant use of perfume. The
perfume shop became So important a
rendezvous of the smart world that
men said, “Let’s go to the perfumers,”
as they would say, “Let’s have a bite.”
Each essence had its. particular sig-
nificance and special power. The scent
of the crushed vine .leaves brought
clear thinking; that of white violets
aided digestion, they believed.
GREAT CLEMENCEAU
LEADS LONELY LIFE
Visitors Are Ghosts of Dead
Whom He Loved.
Paris.—Georges Clemenceau, who has
wrecked many cabinets but won the
country’s gratitude in the war, is bit-
terly conscious of a great loneliness
in the evening of his life.
‘When his sister died recently,
friends gathered at his Paris home
and one of them asked:
“How many ‘official’ visits do you
receive? How many ministers, how
many marshals call on you?’
The Tiger began, in what all
thought an evasive way:
“1 sleep little; old men sleep little.
Often at two or three o'clock in the
morning 1 awake, I would be bored
in bed, awake, so I get up. [ come
out here, with difficulty, for some-
times my legs go back on me, and
here, in the silence, I talk with the
dead—"’
“It is during those night hours,”
went on the aged man who so often
governed France, “alone with ghosts,
dear ghosts, that I have written my
memories of Claude Monet. Ah!
There come many of the dead, ar
night, into this room.
“Phat is my destiny. I see them
go, one after another, those [ love, all
of them.”
Then, facing the one who was so
anxious to know who remembered him,
the Tiger snapped out:
“I am alone, monsieur, alone.”
Russians Clamp Lid
on Old-Time Music |
Washington, D. C.—The thorough-
aess with which Soviet Russia is
attempting to supplant utterly every
part of the old order which
existed before the revolution is un-
limited according to the reports
brought back by travelers who have
been investigating the Bolshevik ex-
periment. It is the fixed intent of the
Soviet leaders to remake Russia so
completely as to leave not a memory
of the old days of the czar and the
nobility, or, at least, not a pleasant
memory. Knowing that intangible
‘as well as tangible things have a di-
rect bearing upon the thoughts and
aspirations” of a people, the Russian
officials have gone so far as to cen-
sor music and to encourage a whole
new school of music.
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, a
Scotch philosopher, is the author of
the famous observation: “Let me
write the songs of a nation and I
care not who makes the laws.” The
Soviet leaders apparently have every
confidence in that statement and
have effected a complete revolution
in music in the last decade, just as
they have changed the social order,
remade the government, altered. all
practice concerning property owner-
ship and generally set up a new Rus-
sia.
With as much care as was devoiea
to the dissemination of propaganda
of a political and economic nature,
the Soviet government created a
special department charged with the
revolutionizing of music.
Suitor Chains Girl
to Bed Post for 3 Weeks
New York.—For three weeks, forty-
year-old William E. Miles, senior,
held his fifteen-year-old bride-to-be in
captivity, chaining her nude body to
a bedpost so no more youihful sheik
could carry her off and marry her
before her elderly admirer could save
up for honeymoon expenses, it was re-
vealed.
Mrs. Sophia Sader, landlady of a
:ooming house, heard groans ema-
nating from the room aud told ber
husband, who called the police to lib-
erate the girl. She, however, told
them to mind their own business and
gel out, asserting her sweetie could
make her a priscner if he wanted to
and in any fashion he chose.
Next day the girl left her trunk
with the Saders as security for two
weeks’ back room rent and with the
woney Miles might have had to pay
out for that item they tripped to the
city hall where a marriage ceremony
was performed.
Gets $12,500 a Barrel
for Bottled Crude Oil
Oklahoma City. Oklu.—The market
price for the grade of oil produced by
Oklahoma City’s discovery gusher is
around $1.66 a barrel, but one pro-
moter is selling a barrel of it for
$12,500.
He gets 25 cents for a dram bottle
of the oil attached to a postcard.
"There are 51,200 drams to a barrel,
assuring him a net profit of $12,500,
at least, if he disposes of every dram.
The bottles are bought for souvenirs
and for gifts to be sent to other parts
of the country.
High Cost of Wives Is
Worrying Chinese Men
Shanghai. — Chinese business
men whose importance is rated
according to the number of
wives are protesting against the
increased price of helpmates.
Since Nanking was made the
capital and Nationalist officials
spent so much time in Shanghai,
the price of a good wife had
risen alarmingly. Lower class
#% Chinese still can obtain young
girls for as low as $100, Shang-
hai currency.
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Some Original Ideas
of American Builders
While siding and shingle exterfor
coverings for homes did not strictly
originate in this country, being large-
ly modifications of existing methods
brought over by the early settler-
artisans, the availability of the ma-
terials and suitability to native archi-
tectures give houses sheathed in sid-
ing or shingles a distinctly American
flavor.
Houses covered with rough hewn
siding boards, or clapboards, and
crudely split shakes, or shingles, di-
rectly succeeded the first log cabins
of the early colonists in this country.
These materials have been refined by
improved methods of manufacture into
types which are individually appro-
priate to the variations of modern
colonial architecture and to the archi-
tectures of other countries in Amer
ican adaptations.
Cedar and pine and other durable
pative woods are used in modern man-
ufacture of shingles and siding, which
are frequently stained to enhance
their appearance and resistance to
weather. Wood siding and shingles
have integral insulating value In
themselves, increasing comfort and
fuel economy in the winter and keep-
ing the house cool in summer.
Wedding “Gifts” Once
Held Legal Obligation
By a wedding custom common in
the British isles until the early part
of the Nineteenth century, the couple
i sent out invitations in which pres-
ents were solicited from those who
accepted the bidding. More strange.
these solicited gifts were regarded
in the light of debts to be paid back
by the couple. On the eve of the wed-
ding the groom received at his house
presents of money, cheese, butter and
cattle from his friends, and the bride
received similar gifts at her house
from her friends. An account of each
gift and the giver was kept in writing
by the clerk of the wedding and the
presents then became debts, which in
some cases were transferrable or as-
signable to other persons. In other
words these wedding gift-debts were
repayable upon demand at any time.
and upon refusal, recoverable at law.
It was in Scotland, however, where
a wedding became a real business
event. At their “penny weddings” of
the last century the expense of the
marriage was defrayed not by the
couple or their friends, but by the
guests all of whom paid something
—or stayed away.—Detroit News.
No Food, No Bride
It is the custom at a Persian wed-
ding that the groom first sees his
bride in ‘a mirror and then, having
glanced at her face, returns to eat
sweets and regale himself with his
friends.
Mullah Nasr ed Din was married,
neheld his bride in the mirror, re-
turned to the guest chamber and dis-
covered to his horror that the guests
had eaten all the refreshments. He
went out from the room in disgust
and was caught as he was leaving
the house by a back door.
Upon being asked why under heav:
en he was departing from his own
wedding, he sald: “Well, I'm going.
The guests have eaten all the food.
They may have the bride’—R. C.
Hutchinson in Asia Magazine.
Immortal Musician :
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy was the full name of the
great composer. He was born at Ham-
burg, Germany, February 3, 1809, and
died at Leipzig, November 4, 1847. He
was the son of Abraham Mendelssohn.
a banker, and the grandson of Moses
Mendelssohn, the philosopher. Al-
though he was born a Jew, he was
baptized and brought up as a Protes-
tant Christian, and was given the
name Bartholdy. Mendelssohn is in-
cluded among the great composers.
He was an eminent conductor, a pian-
ist of the highest rank, and a fin-
ished organist.
Compromise
A village bachelor, who had long
peen the object of many a spinster’s
ambitions, finally succumbed to the
charms of a very willing widow; but
on his wedding morning he failed to
turn up.
The next day he called at his bride
¢0-be’s house, looking rather sheepish.
“Jack dear,” screamed the widow,
who was well-nigh frantic with anx.
iety, “why didn’t you come for me
yesterday at noon?”
“We-e-ll,” drawled the bachelo:
slowly, “I intended to, but it looked
too much like rain to me.”
Volcano’s Temperature
in the volcano of Kilauea the
temperature at the surface of the
lava is in the neighborhood of 1,000
degrees Centigrade. Basalt, which is
the molten rock in Kilauea and many
other volcanoes, may melt at either
higher or lower temperatures, de:
pending on their composition. Thus
the melting point of sandstone would
be very high, probably in the neigh-
borhood of 1,800 to 1,700 degrees Cen-
tigrade, depending on their purity.
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Not Mixed Curse
‘Though the clouds of grasshoppers
in the Tientsin-Peking section of
China have added to the shortage of
certain foods by devastating fields and
devouring crops, they have them-
selves supplied many tables, the na-
tives, rich and poor alike, esteeming
them a great delicacy.—Living Age.
Bonds Called for Payment
HE entire issue of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manfacturing Company 5%
Bonds, has been called for payment March
1, 1929, on which date interest will cease.
Bonds delivered to us will be forward-
ed for payment, without charge.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Lincoln Stepped Into
the Highest Place
BRAHAM LINCOLN enriched and
deepened America’s faith in it-
self. From the lowest ranks,
he stepped into the highest place, and
always bore himself with sublime sim-
plicity.
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