ROMAN SHIP BARED
IN DRAINED LAKE
Caligula’s Galley Disap-
: points Italians.
Rome. — Caligula’s galley, about
‘which so much has been written in
Ttaly and elsewhere, is proving a dis
appointment to the Italians, and a
source of worry to the peasants of
Nemi, whose medieval city overlooks
the lake in which the galley was sunk.
© Now that several million gallons
‘have been drained from what was till
recently the most beautiful lake near
‘Rome, the hulk has appeared in all
dts dilapidation. Its worn beams, en-
‘tirely bare of those ornaments of mar-
ble, copper and mosaic that were de-
‘geribed with such glowing color, have
been kept together only hy the mud
of the bottom of the lake. Now that
they have been exposed to the sun,
they are in danger of crumbling away
altogether, and the two firms that
fave undertaken its salvage at their
own expense hastily had it boarded
up, while continuing pumping opera
‘tions, though on a reduced scale, as
the rapid pumping of the last six
months not only caused landslips, but
may throw the beams of the hulk
apart altogether.
Hope to Reconstruct Galley.
Archeologists and antiquarians are
mot so disappointed as the general
public, nor do they share the anger
.of the Nemi peasants, whose famous
strawberry beds, which used to reach
ito the water's edge, are damaged by
ithe withdrawal of moisture and the
‘frequent landslides.
They point out that once the water
is drained from the galley’s keel, and
ithe cooler weather makes it possible
#0 remove the boarding. it will be sim-
‘ple enough to remove the hulk beam
‘by beam and “peconstruct” it on the
shores of the lake, where a small mu:
seum is to be built for its reception.
. Whether the operation will solve the
riddle of how galleys of ancient Rowe
were propelled remains to be seen.
Former attempts to save this one did
more harm than good. Large quanti.
ties of wood taken from it were sold
for fuel, and the better parts made
into “keepsakes,” such as snuff boxes
and walking sticks.
Emperor Is Playful.
As to the precious marbles and
pronzes with which the barges were
covered, local rumor has it that the
Emperor Caligula, being in a play-
ful mood, sunk the boats on purpose,
with his friends on hoard to see what
they would do when in danger of
drowning, but carefully had every-
thing of value removed. The discov:
ery of a large wolf's head in copper,
‘a few tiles and some long copper nails
does not entirely refute this legend,
ifor the heads were used as figure-
heads, and the tiles may have cov:
ered a cabin. One head, evidently the
‘twin of that found near the hulk re-
cently, has been in Terme museum in
Rome for some years. The copper
pails were purely ornamental, as ex-
sperts who examined the hulk found
the beams were kept together by
‘dove-tailing one into the other.
Now that the barge near the shor.
has proved disappointing, archeolo-
‘gists’ hopes are centered on the one
further out which, they say, will be
in better condition, as neither peas-
ants nor relic hunters could get at it
so easily. But the two firms who are
undertaking their salvage for purely
patriotic reasons have already spent
over 1,500,000 liras ($75,000) against
an estimated 200,000 iiras ($10,000).
‘And it is not certain that they will
be able to attack the second vessel,
which would prove even more costly.
The estimate was that both would be
laid bare by next October.
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British Police Report
Rise in Motor Bandits
“London.—Motor bandits have be
_ come so active and successful through-
. out the British Isles that police have
. peen forced to seek new means of
curbing their activities.
More than 100 motor raids were
wreported in London alone during the
#irst half of 1029. The number of
attacks increased steadily from six
in January to 51 in May. Few of
the culprits were arrested.
The bandits not only use automo
biles to escape after a robbery. They
patrol residential districts in their
fast cars, attacking and robbing per-
sons on the sidewalks.
Police admit they are meeting se
rious difficulties in attempting to
solve the problem.
gn a recent case, a stolen car was
driven through three cordons of po-
lice who sought to stop it. Three
attempts to rob the postoffice at Ux-
bridge have been foiled but the crimi-
nals have always managed to escape
in motor cars.
90 P. C. of World's
Motors Made in U. S.
Washington.—Nine out of every ten
‘automobiles in use throughout the
avorld were made in the United States,
qccording to a report issued by the
‘authoritative division of the Depart-
.ment of Cominerce. Of the 32,028,500
‘automobiles in world circulation, 28,
$51,500, or more than 90 per cent,
«were produced by American manufac-
‘turers. This includes 25,667,000 pas-
genger cars and 3,084,500 trucks.
Approximately ‘half of the 6,336,845
machines in foreign countries bear the
‘ngme of American manufacturers.
The automobile industry in the United
States outranks all other manufactur
dog industries.
| Preservers That Defy
the Corruption of Death
| A man's body was found standing
upright in a block of ice and was
| chopped out of a crevasse in a gla-
| efer of Mount Rainier, Thus there
is a reminder of the pathetic story
told many years &go when Mr. Fred-
erick Stimson was writing as “J. 8.
: of Dle”: The story of the body pre-
| served in an Alpine glacier, slowly
moving, but finally restoring the loved
| one to the patient waiter. Or there is
the frozen pirate, the hero of a novel,
by Clark Russell, though this pirate
was not saved from immediate death
Yy a glacier.
Ashes and lava are also indifferent:
unconscious preservers: Witness
Pompeii and Herculaneaum. There
are natural earths that have been
said to retain bodies as they were
above the ground. Was the coffin that,
held the marquis of Dorset of a spe’
elal wood or metal that after seventy-
eight years his body was found un-
softness like an ordinary cerpse newly
to be interred”? Or was this due to
the properties of the cerecloth?
Is there any index of stories in
which the strangely preserved, mum-
mies included, have come to life, and
welcomed the amazingly changed
world; moved as strangers in a
strange land; worked evil on de-
scendants who had mistakenly rever-
enced their memory and boasted of
lineage? It is no doubt better, as
Bert Williams used to say, that
“death is so permanent.”
“Fistic Art” Had Origin
in Days of Barbarism
Although boxing as a science is rel-
atively modern, it was in the blazing
‘sun of Italy and Greece, in the great
"ampitheaters of long ago, where bar-
barian captives fought and died to
tickle the faney of the populace. that
| boxing as a sport was born. That
| these people must have developed a
skillful school of boxing during the
period in which the cestus was used
is certain, but unfortuaately little is
known either of the style of fighting
or of the personal attributes of the
boxer by which a comparison can he
: made between those long-dead cham-
pions and the modern wielder of the
padded glove. The nearest connecting
link is the famous Greek statue chis-
i eled in time-defying marble known as
«The Boxer.” This, at least, affords a
study in character.
During the early part of the Right-
eenth century in England boxing was
about as inhuman a sport as one can
imagine. The middle of the century,
fortunately, saw the dawn of a new
day for the hoxer, for at this time
Jack Broughton, a young English
champion, invented boxing gloves and
originated a code of rules prohibiting
much of the former savagery of the
sport, on which many of the future
rules have been based.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Beetle Has Some Value
Devil's horse or devil’s coach horse
‘is the name given to certain large rove
beetles. About 2,000 different species
of rove beetles have been described.
Says an eminent entomologist: “They
live on decaying animal or vegetable
matter, in excrement. fungi. or fer-
menting sap, and are among the most
universally distributed of all heetles.
Many of them are predatory, and
some have been accused of feeding on
living plants; but on the whole they
are of importance to the agriculturist
only as scavengers, and as they aid in
reducing the dead animal and vege-
table matter into shape for assimila:
tion by plants.”—Pathfinder Magazine.
Yay
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! Old American College
In 1636 the General court of the
Massachusetts Bay colony voted £400
for establishing an institution of learn-
ing. The first building was erected in
1637. This became Harvard univer-
sity. The College of William and
Mary and its antecedents reach back
to the effort begun in 1617 to establish
fn Virginia the University of Henri:
copolis. The Indian massacre of 1622
brought this cffort to naught. The
charter for the College of William and
Mary was issued in 1673 by the Eng-
lish king and queen for whom it was
named.
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Path of Sugar
In 1842 sugar sold in the London
market at $2.75 per pound. At the
close of the Fifteenth century the
price had fallen to 53 cents per pound.
Sugar did not become a regular fea-
ture in the diet until it was intro-
duced by Queen Flizabeth of Enz:
land. The first reference to sugar oh-
tained from cane was made by Theo-
phrastus in the Third century, B. C.
He mentioned it as ‘honey which
comes from bamboo.” Sugar cane was
first introduced in America in 1502 in
the island of San Domingo. The Jesu-
its brought it to Louisiana in 1751.
Deference to Others
Tolerance is willingness to grant
to the opinions and actions of others
the same consideration you do to
your own. You may not agree with
such acts or ideas, but this dues not
mean that you are right and they are
wrong.—Grit.
Breeding Counts
If you want to muke a good actress
you must first catch the grandmother. |
To make a pretty woman it is advis
able to go back even further.—Wom-
an’s Home Companion.
corrupted, “in color, proportion. and .
TEXT BOOKS COST
"$1.58 FOR EACH PUPIL.
Based on an eight year average
textbooks for the Commonwealth's
schools cost $2,746,545 or $1.53 a
year for _each pupil, Dr. John A. H.
Keith, superintendent of public in-
struction has announced.
In 1921 the cost per pupil for a
complete set of text books first ex-
ceeded one dollar. A careful check
of the annual expenditures since that
time has been compiled.
The average total cost for text-
‘hooks is-only slightly in excess of
two per cent. of the general cost of
the operation of the schools.
The ;
showed that there was little varia-
tion in expenditure per pupil for text
books in the different types of school
districts. In the first class, compos-
ed of the cities of Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, it cost during 1927-1928
an average of $1.35 per pupil to sup-
ply the schools with textbooks.
Corresponding figures for second
class districts, such as Altoona, Erie,
Harrisburg, and Scranton were $1.80
per pupil; for third class districts,
such as Beaver Falls, Dunmore, Ridg-
way, Steelton, Tyrone, and West
Chester were $1.75; and for the
fourth class districts or those under
5000 in population, including most
of the townships and the smaller
boroughs, the cost was $1.69.
MANY PLANTS ARE
FOOD FACTORIES
Did you know that all of the food
in the world is made by the leaves
of plants? A learned professor in
the University of Liverpool made a
great many experiments recently and
declared this to be true. He calls
the process which the plant goes
through by the long name, “photo-
synthesis.” He writes:
“From the air these green leaves
absorb a gas called carbon dioxide,
the same gas that makes the bubbles
in soda water. Traces of this gas
are always in the open air. The
plant roots absorb water, which is
then drawn up into the leaves. The
leaves also absorb sunlight.
“These three things, sunlight, wa-
ter, and carbondioxide gas, the leaves
used to manufacture a variety of
sugar which is the raw material of
plant growth, as well as the material
for producing the starch that plants
like wheat store in the grain, that
plants like the potato store in their
tubers. All the animals that eat plants
as well as human beings who eat
both these animals and the original
plant foods, really get their living
from the work of the green leaves.”
The article goes on to say that, in
spite of years of effort, no scientist
has been able to do the same work
artificially which the plant leaves do
naturally. ?
FORTUNE IN AMBERGRIS
FLOATING AT BEACH.
The greed of a whale which died
from acute indigestion has provided
London with the largest lump of am-
bergris yet seen by dealers.
It weighs about 225 pounds, and
is worth nearly $50,000. For per-
fumery purposes it is worth anytiing
up to $25 an ounce.
This record lump was found on a
New Zealand beach by two brothers
who will make a small fortune by the
discovery.
Ambergris is the product of the
sperm whale’s fondness for cuttlefish.
He cannot digest the beak of the
cuttlefish, so the beaks accumulate
and set up irritation, which causes
the ambergris to form. Eventually
the whale distends, becomes ill and
blows up. The ambergris floats away
and it may be years before it is
washed ashore.
TULAREMIA SURVEY
SHOWS BIG SPREAD
Tularemia, a disease carried chief-
ly by rabbits and transmitted to man
py direct contact or by flies and
ticks, is more widespread than at
first feared, according to a survey
completed by the University of Cali-
fornia in Nevada. 5
The survey was made by Dr. J. C.
Geiger, associate professor of epi-
demiology, and Dr. K. F. Meyer, di-
rector of Hooper foundation for med.-
jcal research. Most of the cases of
the disease, they found, were caused
by direct contact with skins of rab-
bits. The danger does not lie in
eating rabbit meat but in prepara-
tion of the rabbits for cooking.
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MASSACHUSETTS LEADS
IN TELEPHONE USE
The highest telephone development
in proportion to population of any
State in the country has been attain-
ed by Massachusets, according to a
report made by William H. O’Brien,
director of the Telephone and Tele-
graph Division of the Public Utilities
Commission.
With a total porfilation of 4,200,-
000 the State has 900,000 telephones.
Of this number 576,000 are house
phones and 321,000 instruments used
in business. .
The number of automobiles in
the telephone totals, also
| the neighborhooa of 900,000
Massachusetts roughly approximates
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HANGING WALKS FOR
FUTURE BIG STORES.
The big store of 100 years hence
' will have a hanging sidewalk, or
| wide balcony outside every floor.
| People will be able to wander about
| looking at shop windows all the way
up the building.
| This forecast was made by Joseph
Hill, well known British architect, in
a lecture at Oxford. The balcony
idea will solve the problem of how
to let people gaze in store-windows
without being pushed away by bust-
ling crowds.
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—41 notice, dear,
| dresses are more in style. thought
your husband objected to short
skirts. How did you manage to get
his consent?”
«Oh, we compromised. He said
he’d agree to my wearing them
shorter if I'd agree to wear them
longer.”—Boston Transcript.
study just completed also
hovering in |p;
‘make up, press little
that your new : 88 is set,
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Daily Thought.
like wit, to judges
Beauty, should be
shown; .
Both most valued are where best they
are known.
~—Lord Lyttleton.
—The college girl was occupied
at the beach and tennis court this
summer securing a fine coat of tan
and neglected to read in the papers
about the 18-day diet. Consequent-
ly, . she returned to school this fall
with just enough gain in weight to
set a new fashion in body styles.
This is the conclusion of Dr.
Guilelma Alsop, . physician at Bar-
nard College for Women, who has
just completed her annual job of con-
ducting physical examinations of
freshmen women.
“The fad for thinness is over,” she
said. “Young girls—if we can
generalize by
college girl—are favoring a little
plumpness, more femininity in ap-
pearance. I find that the average
girl is trying to bring up her weight
rather than lower it. The thin and
often unhealthy silhouette is going
out of style.”
Dr. Alsop was enthusiastic over
the sun-tan fad, which she said was
partially responsible for this year’s
freshmen class at Barnard being in
better health, than any class for
10 years. Approximately,
the students examined, registereda
haemoglobin blood test of 90 or over,
the normal for women she said, the
remaining half had a haemoglobin
count only slightly below normal.
Dr. Alsop had the following to
say in defense of sun-smoked backs
and backless dresses:
“The tanning of the body, wheth-
er accomplished by low back and
short sleeve dresses worn without
stockings; by the bare back bathing
suit or by regular sun baths, is one
reason for the exceptionally high
vitality and lack of anaemia among
our college freshmen. Through the
delicate skin, the blood in the capil-
laries absorbs the ultra-violet rays
of the sun and carries them to the
deeper circulation of the blood.
These ultra-violet rays are then sup-
posed to stimulate the blood form-
ing organs.
Certainly, there can be an ex-
cess of sunburn or of windburn that
will dry the skin. Of the two, wind-
burn can be more harmful than the
sun. But the healthy tan that the
present custom has given the
younger generation is making them
hardier, healthier and prettier. I
expect fewer colds this year than
ever before.”
Dr. Alsop, while foreseeing the
popularity of plumpness, said she
did not believe the modern girl would
adopt the new fall stylesin clothing
with the longer dresses and skirts
“because the young girls have worn
short, wide skirts for so long that
they will place comfort above fash-
ion.” :
—The chief beauty of smart
sports clothes is their simplicity.
Good line and design count here as
they do in no other part of the
wardrobe. Accessories to the ac-
tive sports costume are few and
should be selected with care. The
correct shoes, and in the case of
golf and riding, the correct gloves,
are of the utmost importance.
Certain kinds of jewelry—such as
the wood sports necklaces and
bracelets introduced by Mary Now-
itzky, the new leather bracelets
from Paris, simple colorful chains
and chokers of galalith—are about
all the active sports participant can
consider. She can however, en-
liven her costume with a few
bright scarfs which compliment the
color of her clothes.
Color accent for the neutral
sports suit or dress is best found
in a scarf which makes up for its
design in lovely color combinations.
Chanel has designed a square one
which is being imported and repro-
duced with great success in Ameri-
ca. The original was made of shan-
tung in a plain purple with a deep
V of purple and black half
stripes.
__ Gloves which are coming into
great prominence in the well regu-
lated wardrobe, are not to be ignor-
ed in the field of sports. The most
approved riding gloves which wash
easily and do not allow the reins
to slip through them even in wet
weather.
The accepted golf gloves, have a
perforated back and grip palm, and
are of calf, cape, or chamois. Such
gloves are also excellent for driv-
ing.
. __Practical and becoming for cold
days is the bloused jacket suit that
can be worn easily under the fur
coat. One of these is made of brown
man's suit fabric, with the coat
snugly fitted to the hips and
bloused all around above. A sleeve-
less cafe au lait satin blouse ac-
companies it, with man’s shirt col-
lar and bow tie of same.
If you can make the top and
bottom hems of glass curtains the
same width, you can turn them up-
dously.
Hash with Dropped Eggs.—Mince
or d cold cooked meat and add
two-thirds as much cold vegetables.
There should be twice as much po-
tatoes as other vegetables. Put a
little gravy stock or hot water with
melted butter in it into a sauce-
pan, turn in the meat and vege-
and heat, stirring all the
Season with salt, pepper and
a little onion juice if liked. Turn
into a buttered baking dish, smooth
over and set in the oven to brown.
depressions in
the top and drop an egg into each.
Set back into the oven until the
. put not cooked hard.
the same dish.
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Yes, T heard a noise and got
up, and there, under the bed, I saw
a man’s leg.”
“Good heavens! The burglar's ?”
“No, my husband's. He'd heard the
noise, too.”—Answers.
Serve in
observation of the -
—We do your job work right.
Statement of Ownership.
In compliance with Section 443 of the
Postal Laws and Regulations the state-
ment is here}. publicly made that the
daughters of Susan M. Meek, deceased, are
sole owners and publishers of “The Dem-
ocratic Watchman,” a_ weekly paper pub-
lished at Bellefonte, Pa. and that there
are no bonds or stock on the property in
existence.
GEO. R. MEEK,
Acting Publisher.
IRA D. GARMAN
1420 Chestnut St.,
PHILADELPHIA
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cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
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consistent with the class eof werk.
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~ Employers
This Interests You
The Workman's Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1, 1916.
It makes insurance compulsory.
We specialize in placing such in-
surance. We ins ants and
recommend Accident Prevention
Safe Guards which’ Reduce Insur-
ance rates.
It will be to your interest to con-
sult us before placing your Insur-
ance.
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State College Bellefonte
the price
of a rubber
ball gives
wo weeks
of good
light for
the chil-
dren’s play-
room
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Mendel’s Knit Silk Hose for Wo-
men, guaranteed to wear six
months without runners in leg or
holes in heels or toe. A mew
FREE if they fail. Price $1.00.
YEAGER’S TINY BOOT SHOP.
Tough the nearest farm
is a mile or more away
— it is always within talk-
ing distance...
TELEPHONE
for a Friendly Chat
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years in the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE,
PA.
A FINE FEAST—
can be prepared with lamb chops
as the principal item on the menu.
We always have these and other
kinds of meat in stock. Our large
assortment includes choice meats
to meet every mealtime require-
ment. All are fresh and of that
prime quality which particular
housewives insist upon.
Telephone 667
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate.... Meat Market