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Bellefonte, Pa.. April 25, 1930.
Desolation
Gigantic Gold Dredges
Automobile tourists through the
aorthern part of California are liable
to have their attention attracted to
mountains of cobblestones frequently
seen. Sometimes these piles are 50 or
60 feet high and several hundred feet
long. They are never beautiful and
they add nothing to the landscape. In
fact, they are eyesores, but there is
little prospect of their removal. These
piles are the accumulation of the gold
dredges, gigantic constructions which
eat their way through the land and
{eave a trail of desolation. Farm lands
and orchards are brought up by the
operators and left in ruin, for the land
is useless for any purpose whatever
after the passage of the dredger.
These machines cost about a quarter
of a million dollars, but the cost of
operation is very small. A large quan-
tity of the earth must be treated to
recover a small quantity of the yellow
metal, but at that the business Is very
profitable. The stones taken from the
foil are useful only to grind up for
cement, but the piles standing today
will offer crushed stone sufficient for
the demands of the entire country for
many years.—Washington Star.
Puzzle Presented to
English Legal Minds
A barrister contributes to the Times,
in a letter, an Ingenious and appar-
ently insoluble puzzle, which may be
summarized thus: A says to B, I will
teach you to be a barrister; half fee
now, and the other half if you win
your first case. B was taught, and
called to the bar, but failed to do any-
thing at all for two years. A then
sald to himself: If I sue him for the
installment of my fee, and win the
case, he will have to pay me; if I
lose, then he has won his first case,
and will therefore have to pay me.
That seems unanswerable until we get
B's view: If A wins, then I have lost
my first case and need not pay him;
and if he loses, then by the judgment
of the court I need not pay him. So
that is that; and there is no evident
golution.—Weekly Scotsman,
Pacific Mystery
Easter island is called the “Unsolved
Mystery of the Pacific” because of the
scattered presence of hundreds of im-
mense heads carved out of stone which
are to be seen, some standing erect
while others are down upon the
ground. Their meaning is only con-
jectural and no one has ever offered
any explanation which is generally
§ Apparently Easter island
p as the graveyard for the
"a large island archipelago
: denly disappeared. The thou-
sands of slaves who were kept at work
carving out these images were left
without food and fell upon each other
until only a few remained. The story
of all these events was never recorded
and can be read only by inference.
Liberty Cap
In early Roman times, only freemen
were permitted to wear caps. When
a slave was manumitted, a small cap,
usually of red felt, was placed on his
head, and his name was registered in
the city tribes. Several Roman com-
manders hoisted such caps on spears
to indicate that all slaves who joined
them should be free; and when Caesar
was murdered, the conspirators
marched forth in a body, with a cap
elevated on a spear, in token of lib-
erty.
In the French revolution, the lip-
erty cap was adopted by the revolu-
tionists as a badge of their freedom.
Plate and “Window Glass”
Glass is made in two ways. One by
blowing, the other by rolling. The
blown glass, known as “window glass,”
. is not always uniform in section, may
contain imperfections, bubbles, sand
marks, streaks, warped surfaces and ir
graded accordingly.
Plate glass is free from the imper-
fection of warpage, objects seen
through it are not distorted, it is more
costly, Single-strength window glass
may be used for small panes and storm
sash, Light-weight plate glass one-
eighth-inch thick is recommended for
small windows.
Pony,
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¢ . Indians’ Poisoned Arrows
* “Phe bureau of ethnology says that
the arrow poison used by the Indians
was of vegetal and animal origin.
Among the vegetal poisons there were
the sap of the yucca angustifolia, a
preparation of aconite, and a plant
called mago, the milk of which was
poison. Some tribes, such as the Sho-
shoni and Bannock Indians, secured
a deer and caused it to be bitten by a
rattlesnake. The deer was then killed
and allowed to putrefy. Then the ar-
rows were dipped into the putrid mat-
ter.
Desert Aster a Beauty
In Painted canyon is found the des-
ert aster—superlative one of all west-
ern composites bearing the much-used
name of “aster,”—lavender-rayed, with
yellow center, and two or three inches
across. And with enough irregularity to
give it an air which we can only sat-
isfactortly describe as chic. It is a
perennial, with a low woody base, a
generous annual growth of slender
‘herbaceous branches, and a liberal
dower of foliage.
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Two-way televisio
wire.
shielded by a screen.
Upper right, Walter
n is now an actual-
ity, from an experimental standpoint.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
Company demonstrated recently in New
York City a system of two-way television
to supplement two-way telephone con-
versations, thus permitting the talking
parties to see as well as hear each other.
Above at the left is an interior of a
booth used in the demonstration.
lower part of the opening is an image
of the person at the distant end of the
From a point above it, the scan-
ning beam is directed on the face of the
speaker and the reflected light is picked
up by photo-electrie cells visible through
the glass plates at the sides and top.
The microphone and loud speakers are
S. Gifford
(seated), president of the A. T. and T.
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Co., ready for his first television-tele-
phone conversation, receives technical
details’ about the apparatus from Dr. H. E. Ives, of the Bell Telephone T.ahoratories.
The diagram to the right illustrates how the two-way television system operates.
from an arc is thrown by the scanning disc on the sp<. .ker’s face, and reflected light is
Photo-electric cells and transmitted electrically to the distant end. The incoming imaze is
of the lower scanning disc and a necn tube.
Mr. Gifford pointed out that while substantial progress has been made on the techuical side, general J
use of television on a commercial basis is not expected to be available for a long time to come,
A beam of light
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Less=ning Aversion to
Formal Music Lessons
Children’s aversion to music lessons,
entailing long hours of practice for
many months, can be overcome by
making them familiar at an early age
with musical toys, according to Frank
H. Richardson; M. D.,, in Woman's
Home Companion.
“Many families have found the ap-
proach to a real appreciation and love
of music is made easier by having the
simpler musical instruments around
where they can be picked up and
played casually even before formal
lessons have begun,” says Doctor Rich-
ardson. “Such simple things as the
fife, flageolet and piccolo; the banjo,
mandolin or even tlie humble ukulele;
the xylophone or bells will often tempt
not only the child but also the guest
in the home. *
“Improvised ensembles prove de
tightful ways of teaching children
good-fellowship and freeing them from
the embarrassment so overpowering
in children whose only contact with
strangers has been formal.
“Many a child who would have beer
repelled at first by the technical diffi-
culties of the violin or piano, has
come happily to these more difficult
musical instruments by way of their
humbler and more easily mastered
brothers in the musical family.”
Proud Boast Is Old
The germ of the idea of the sun
never setting on the dominions of a
particular ruler is found in Herodotus,
Book VII, Chapter 8. The boast wus a
common one with the Spaniards in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
and is frequently alluded to in the lit-
erature of other countries. It does not
scem to be recorded who first used the
expression the sun never sets upon the
British empire. John Wilson. who
wrote under the pen name of Chris-
topher North (1786-1854). in his Noctes
Ambrosianae, No. 20, April, 1829, says,
“His majesty's dominions on which the
sun never sets.” This appears to be
the first use of the expression in Eng-
lish literature.
Veneered for Strength
When you consider veneered furni-
ture you usually consider it as a
cheap and economical method of us-
ing expensive woods. But strength,
as much as economy, is the motive,
points out the American Architect, cit-
ing the famous desk used by Napoleon
as an example. The desk accompanied
the Corsican conqueror to the ends of
Europe, packed on muleback or jolted
over the country on artillery calssons.
But now, more than 125 years old, it ig
on exhibition at Fontainebleau in per-
fect condition. .
Bi-Lingualism in Finland
Before Finland was seized by Rus:
sia in 1808 to beccme a grand-duchy
under the czars, it belonged to Swe-
den. Swedish remained the sole offi-
cial language until 1883 when Finnish
was given equal rights. Today both
languages are on an equal footing, but
Swedish is the commercial language
of the maritime towns, including Hel-
singfors, the capital, where it is the
mother tongue of a large portion of
the population,
Sweetness of a Good Life
As shrubs which are cut down with
the morning dew upon them do for a
long time after retain their fragrancy,
so the good actions of a wise man per-
fume his mind and leave a rich scent
behind them. 8o that joy is, as fit
were, watered with these essences and
owes its flourishing to them.—Plutarch.
“Ornery” Long Employed
To Express Contempt
“Ornery” and “onery” are corrupted
forms of “ordinary.” They are dialect
or colloquial terms meaning insignifi-
cant, low, mean, contemptible, and
they express a higher degree of con-
tempt and disapprobation than “ordi-
nary” does. “Ornary” as a contrac
tion of “ordinary” was a common pro-
vincialism in England in the time of
the Stuarts, although it is now nearly
obsolete. We find the phrase “uppon
ornarie time,” in the Easthampton rec-
ords as late as 1679. In Ireland and
the United States this form persists In
the still more corrupted forms or “orn-
ery” and “onery,” which were brought
to the American colonies and perpet-
uated largely by Irish and Scotch-Irish
immigrants, who settled in the’ South
and West. This explains the fact that
“ornery” and “onery” are generally re-
garded as southerisms or westernisms.
In 1830 the New York Constellation
published the following as a southern
expression: “You ornery fellow! Do
you pretend to call me to account for
my language?’—Pathfinder Magazine
Cot Something From Nothing
The resourcefulness of the archeo-
logical exjivrer enables him to do
some wonderful things in the field
that savor almost of the magical, Mr.
Woolley, working at Ur of the Chal-
dees, for instance had his attention
called to the. presence of two small
and cleanly cut holes in the ground
which were so very much alike that
he thought they might mean some-
thing. So the work of excavation in
that particular spot was halted while
a thin mixture of plaster of paris
was made and this was poured Into
the holes and allowed to set. When
the cast was finally uncovered it was
found that they had secured the lines
of a Sumerian harp which had been
shaped of wood which had long since
. decayed and disappeared. The cast
was perfect in all its details and com-
prised a valuable specimen.
On the Menu
The portly gentleman who had been
engaged to sing in the musical pro-
gram following a dinner at a large
restaurant was loking very enraged.
He was scanning the list of musical
items. and, to his consternation, hie
name had been omitted!
Approaching one of the organizers
he brandished the program furiously,
and demanded the reason of the omis-
sion. The young fellow whom he ap-
proached glanced down at the card,
then laughed nervously. “Aren't you
Signor Jelly, the singer?” he asked.
“Yes.” was the reply.
“Well—er—your name being ‘Jelly,’ ”
said the young chap, “it appears to
have been put on the menu by mis-
‘ake.”—Montreal Star.
French Superstitions
To a considerable extent, the French
peasants still attach credence to the
evil eye, to witches, to were-wolves and
to other weird medieval superstitions,
in spite of years of persistent effort to
eradicate these primitive beliefs. In
many remote villages of Normandy
and Brittany belief in heathen deities
also survives. Sacred trees are the
object of midnight worship, when
young girls gather to dance in the
moonlight, as in the days of Druidical
heathenism. Healers and medicine
men abound in the rural districts and
certain animals still are treated with
reverential awe. Cases involving su-
perstition are constantly coming to
the attention of the French courts.
| Denver Man Drew His First
Sketch on Bar.
Denver, Colo.—Twenty years ago a
bearded and rugged Westerner took a
stub pencil from his pocket, leaned
over the counter of a frontier saloon.
and reproduced from memory a scene
he had witnessed years before in »
theater in Cincinnati.
It was Michael Edward O'Brien,
standing alone inspired by his first
creative mood, while laughter and the
fumes of whisky filled the room,
In a little while the sketch was fin
ished—even to the bridge across the
Thames. His comrades crowded
around, praising his work, though they
didn’t understand.
Encouraged by Wife.
Today, *Viewing the Oaks,” painted
by O'Brien, hangs in the Denver Art
museum among an exhibit of the work
of native Colorado artists. [It was the
first picture of the exhibit to be sold.
Behind that picture lies the story
of an ordinary hod carrier with a fam-
ily to support, who never shirked his
responsibility and never became dis-
couraged.
Those few words of approbation
which bis comrades had spoken to him
of his drawing on the bar spurred him
on, His wife encouraged him, al-
though she was busy with the house
hold.
Ai nights the hod carrier, noted for
feats of strength when he was a
young man, would go to his home in
Denver's most anpretentious residen-
tial district and for hours then his
work-worn hands would yield to the
imaginative power of his inner self.
Paints From Memory.
Because he was forced to work at
night many of the tints were not
what they should be, and daylight
found his work done in vain. He
worked on them, however, until they
were perfected.
O'Brien never had an education for
a background. He paints mostly from
memory, which fact, it is said, is re-
sponsible for the unusual degree of
imaginativeness found in his pictures.
Occasionally, his wife says, he goes off
to the mountains, but always tears up
his sketches when he comes back and
paints his scenes from memory.
A few of his pictures have been sold,
and these funds have been a genuine
relief from the poverty that dogged
him for so long.
Museum officials are making an ef-
fort to have a special exhibit of his
work in recognition for this latest
picture, “Viewing the Oaks.”
Old Sioux Chief Tells
Story of Custer Fight
Washington.—An aged Sioux war
chief, survivor of Custer’s last stand,
gave a new version of that famous
battle between the white man and
' the red.
Iron White Man, seventy-one, heaa
algh and body erect, turned back to
his youth to tell of the “massacre.”
He was seventeen then.
The old warrior came here in the
cause of the Sioux who have sued the
government for $600,000,000 in payment
for Indian lands taken over for white
settlement,
He told his story of the fight:
“One day an old man and a boy,
chey were Indians, were chased and
the boy was killed by Custer's sol-
diers.
“The soldiers began to shoot on the
camp's women and children who were
swimming in the creek. Immediate-
ly after this the warriors all got their
ponies, mounted and they went against
the soldiers and the end was that all
the soldiers were killed.”
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