Beworralic falda
Bellefonte, Pa., June 6, 1930.
SS
‘French Nationalists. Sond
Laud Alsace Consul
Strasbourg, France. — Extreme
Trench Nationalists, deeply mortified’
recently by what they considered the
base ingratitude of Alsace in demand-
ing autonomy, hailed gleefully and
proudly the fiery behavior of General
Mittelhauser, “militant proconsul” of
France's northeastern provinces, a re
cont guest of the mayor of Selestat.
Invited to a welcoming party, gen-
werously splashed with champagne, the
general was greeted by Doctor Bron-
mer, the mayor, with an impassioned
‘harrangue anent Alsatban independ-
ence—a subject exceedingly delicate in
‘the presence of loyal General Mittel-
hauser. The general's response was
brief:
“IL am an Alsatian of long lineage,”
he declared, “and I am French with-
out restriction. Adieu, messieurs, and
drink your champagne alone.”
Chinese Trained Abroad
Desert Peiping Haunts
Peiping, China.—Chinese students
2ducated abroad have practically de-
-gerted Pelping, following the govern-
ment to Nanking and Shangahi, the
annual report of the Western Re-
turned Students’ club here reveals.
The report states that the member-
ship dropped during 1929 to only 39,
as compared with 244 members in
1925, when the capital was soundly
-eatablished here. The club is still
maintained, however, in attractive
quarters, and serves as a meeting
place for Chinese members and their
‘Chinese and foreign friends.
‘Chinese Judge Ousted
for Wife Selection
Peiping.—A Chinese judge should
aot fall in love with and marry a girl
iiving in his own district, the judicial
department of the Hopei provincial
government has’ decided.
Chinese newspapers here report that |
a magistrate was removed from office |
because he fell in love with a girl in
‘the town where he was judge and
married her. The government decided
that judges should select their wives
in sore other section.
Dicing Ancient Pastime
Dice were probably evolved from
knuckle bones, but it is almost impos-
gible to trace clearly the development
of dice as distinguished from knuckle
bones on account of the confusion of
the two games by the ancient writers.
Both were played In times antecedent
to those of which we possess any writ-
‘ten records. Sophocles in a fragment
ascribed their invention to Palamedes,
a Greek. He taught their use to his
countrymen during the siege of Troy.
‘Herodotus relates that the Lydians,
during a period of famine, in the days
-of King Atys, invented dice, knuckle
‘bones, and practically all other games
-@xcept chess. Dice have been used
throughout the Orient from time Im-
‘memorial and have been found In
“tombs and mausoleums of ancient
‘Egypt, classic Greece, and the Far
East.
Ingenious Diet Test
There is in existence an illustration
‘bearing the date 1614 which proves to
‘us that even so long ago there was
“an Interest in diet. History tells us
‘that one Sanctorious built himself a
‘weighing chair so that he could see
‘just how much food he ate daily.
This chair was an ingenious device
-gonnected with a high steel rod on
which there was a movable weight.
The weight was pushed over to equal
the weight of himself and the food
which he was about to eat. Then sit-
ting in his chair he would eat until
the chair dipped, when he would end
his repast.
3 Churchgoing Magpie
‘Going to church on Sunday night is
“pot the habit of magpies but one in
‘Long Gully, Victoria, Australia, did so.
It perched on a seat near its owner.
Its presence in the church aroused
‘much interest among the younger
members of the congregation. Toward
“the end of the service the magpie left
“the church and awaited its owner, In
“the strange surroundings it became
- confused, and while following its own-
-@r across a road in the dark was run
~gver by a motor car and killed.
Lh Popular Old Tune
The tune, “Listen to the Mocking
Bird,” was composed by Richard Mil- !
burn. The story is that Septimus
Wenner induced Milburn to whistle
this piece while Wenner wrote it down,
The song was afterward published by
Mr. Wenner in Philadelphia in 1855.
It is interesting to know that the 1855
edition of the song reads, “Listen to
the Mocking Bird; Music written by
Richard Milburn, Words by Alice Haw-
thorne.,” Alice Hawthorne was one of
the pseudonyms used by Mr. Wenner.
A Simpler Way
He rounded the bend at close on
“forty. A sudden skid, and the car
-overturned. They found themselves
gitting together unhurt, alongside the
completely smashed car. He put his
arm lovingly about her waist, but she
pulled it away.
“It’s all very nice,” she sighed, “but
wouldn't it have been easier to run out
«of petrol?"—London Answers.
HARD LUCK DUE
TO CAMEL KICK:
Ahmed Sure Had Run of
Mishaps After Animal
Hoisted Him.
New York.—Ahmed Karn was sit
ting on a cane-bottom chair in the
Seaman’s institute, down on the Easi
river front. He was puffing a funny
looking pipe with a brass lid.
O. Henry once wrote a story about
a fellow named Kearney. This Kear
ney was afflicted with chronic tough
luck. Every time he took hold of any
project it went into the ground, ex-
cept when he tried to plow. Every
ship he ever got on went down, except
when he boarded a submarine. Kear
ney was just that way. He couldn't
help it. Ahmed Karn also gets bad
breaks.
It seems that Ahmed comes from the
land of the Pharaohs. Twelve years
ago in Schogg, Ahmed was kicked by
a camel. When he recovered he found
himself lying in a field alongside the
Nile. Ahmed tucked up his tunic and
took a train for Cardiff, }
Meets Lady Snake Charmer. |
In Cardiff Ahmed struck up a friend-
ship with a lady snake charmer. She
must have misunderstood his inten-
tlons because one afternoon a lawyer
approached and told him he'd have to
marry the girl. Ahmed left town in
the middle of the night and went to
London.
He signed up with an Italian ship,
sailing for Genoa. Thirteen days la-
ter, when he landed, he was arrested
as a war spy. When he finally got
out of jail his ship was gone and so
were his clothes. He took another
ship, bound for Naples. The first
night out she was torpedoed. In the
escape from the sinking vessel Ahmed
got into an altercation with the mate
and was laid low by a bottle. i
He got to Genoa and signed up with
an English tramp, bound for Port Said.
The rest of the crew were Chinese.
Before he could get aboard ship
Ahmed was waylaid by a gang of
sailors. He got two black eyes and
a broken nose and was thrown in jail
for two months on a charge of attack-
ing eight peace-loving sailors.
Cannibals Rescued.
Ahmed got out of jail and had to
pribe his way into a job in a steamer. !
She was loaded with coal, and two
days out a torpedo sent her down.
Ahmed was plucked out of the water
by a steamer headed for South Amer-
ica. South of the equator the ship
rescued four men in a rowboat. They
were cannibals, it developed, and the
first night on board they tried to eat
Ahmed without benefit of salt and pep-
per. A squall came up suddenly and
saved him.
The gale swept the decks clean and |
a wooden tub hit Ahmed in the small
of the back, putting him in bed for
the rest of the journey.
In 1920, after varied misadventures,
Ahmed found himself in Tampico
working on an oil ship, He missed
the ship one day and was arrested as
a deserter. Finally he was released
on bond.
Then Ahmed came to the Unitea
States. He had sad adventures in
Port Arthur, Texas, and in California,
altogether too numerous to mention.
Eventually he reached Baltimore,
where, in a speakeasy, his skull was
fractured in a brawl
Ahmed told his story, displayed his
scars, and announced that he was
preparing to leave New York on the
first ship which would take him back
to Egypt.
He has a reason for wanting to go
pack to Egypt. He wants to look up
that camel. He’s going to kick the
living daylights out of the beast.
That's the way Ahmed is.
He thinks the camel started it all.
Back Seat Auto Driver
Often Stops Accidents
Fresno, Calif.—After this when the
back seat driver speaks up it is the
better part of wisdom to listen.
Authority for this statement is no
088 than Leon Whitsell, state rail-
road commissioner, and a man who
dotes on backing up his statements
with statistics.
In a luncheon talk here, Whitsel
said that in 60 per cent of all rail-
road grade crossing accidents in Cali-
fornia there was only one occupant of
the car involved, and therefore no op-
portunity for a “back seat driver” to
warn the real driver.
Whitsell said it merely boiied down
to the fact that four eyes are better ,
than two, and that frequently the oft- |
scorned “back seat driver” is respon-
sible for preventing accidents.
Woman, 65, Sees Her
First City; Spurns It
Ocracoke, N. C.—Mrs. Epherine
Garrish, sixty-five, made her first trip
to ‘the mainland recently and then
told friends here she is still satisfied
with Ocracoke. Trains, traffic, elec- |
tric lights, running lights and the tall
buildings of eastern Carolina cities
were all new to Mrs. Garrish.
Dog Raids Are Menace
to Canadian Cattle
Lethbridge, Alberta.—Stringent law |
snforcement measures have partially |
checked widespread cattle rustling, |
but have failed to curtail dog raids |
on southern Alberta herds. These |
raids resulted in 76 cattle being killed
in the Carston district alone, |
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Earliest Hawaiian Map
Discovered in England
The first recorded map of the Ha-
walian islands has been brought to
{ight In England, identified authori
tatively and acquired for the Archives
of Hawaii, a territorial institution
eays the San Francisco Chronicle.
This map was drawn by Thomas Ed
gar, master of the sailing ship Discov-
ery, which accompanied the Resolu-
| tion, flagship of the famous James
i Cook, on the explorer’s voyage to Ha-
wail. Cook brought his ships to an-
chor at Waimea, island of Kauai, in
January, 1778, and about this time the
map was made by Edgar. The log of
the Discovery, nearly all written by
Edgar, was recently identified in Eng-
land, and was accompanied by various
maps and drawings.
Edgar, as well as Cook, drew into
his maps the details of only those por-
tions of land that were seen, indicat-
ing other supposed parts by hazy out-
lines. The Hawaiians had no maps
when the first white man came. They
had no written language, yet were re-
: markably skilled mariners, traversing
thousands of miles of open sea in their
large canoes, steering by the stars,
and with extraordinary knowledge of
practical navigation.
No Freedom of Worship
Under Peter Stuyvesant
Early in his administration Peter
Stuyvesant issued a proclamation for-
bidding the people to assemble for any
religious service other than that of
the Dutch Reformed church, which
was the established church in the fort,
writes P. B. Cole in the New York
! World, in telling “The Story of New
York.”
This law was vigorously enforced.
Stuyvesant banished from the colony
a Lutheran minister who had come
from Holland to minister to the large
number of Lutherans in the colony
and even imprisoned Lutheran par-
ents who failed to have their children
baptized in the Dutch Reforme?
church.
Stuyvesant’s iron hand fell heaviest,
however, upon the Quakers, a large
number of whom had settled on Long
Island, in Hempstead. In this settle-
ment was Robert Hodgson, who began
conducting Quaker meetings among
his townfolk. Stuyvesant haled him
to New Amsterdam, and without al-
lowing Hodgson to speak in his own
i defense, sentenced him to two years
| hard. labor or a fine of 500 guilders.
Bees and Their Owners
Entomologists hold that there Is
nothing to the common notion that
honey-bees recognize the beekeeper
and distinguish him from other indi-
viduals. Although some bees hatched
late in the fall survive the winter, the
average life of a worker bee during
the active honey season is only about
six weeks, two of which are spent in
the hive. It is not likely that a bee-
keeper would examine a hive frequent-
ly enough to be recognized by crea-
tures with such short lives even If
they had the ability to distinguish be-
tween different human beings. Good
beekeepers do not provoke bees so
much as others do because they are
familiar with their habits and know
how to handle them.—Pathfinder
Magazine.
Subjection of Wives
Some 400-year-old rules for handling
wives have been published in London
in connection with the new book on
Rabelais.
The rules were drawn up by Ti-
raqueau, friend of Rabelais, who had
considerable experience with wives,
First of all, he sets forth the dicta
that “woman is man’s inferior.”
Having established his premise,
firaqueau goes on to say, “She is not
to be struck or mistreated in any
way. :
“The wife is to be educated by ex
ample and by caresses mingled with
. severity. She may be threatened when
: necessary.”
Oyster Cultivation
Oysters are now planted and cul-
. ¢ivated like so much corn or turnips.
Herbert F. Prytherch of the United
States bureau of fisheries tells us that
the oyster industry of the United
States now constitutes its most valu-
able fishery, yielding annually about
' 78,000 tons of food, employing over
65,000 persons, and producing each
year a crop valued at over $14,000,000
as it is taken from the water. It is
conducted, he says, in every seacoast
state from Cape Cod to the Rio Grande
and from Puget sound to San Fran-
eisco.
Ascribed to Franklin
“Ca Ira” was a popular song of the
french revolution. The words are of
uncertain origin, one version probably
being the composition of Ladre, a
street singer. The air was a popular
. carillon by Buccourt, and a favorite
of Marie Antoinette’s. French writers
say that Benjamin Franklin In speak:
ing of the American revolution often
used the expression “Ca Ira,” which
means “It Will Succeed.” The phrase
was caught up by the French.
Padlocked
Little Mary, on her first trip to
the country, had become greatly in-
terested in the cows.
them closely for a while, especially
the cow around whose neck a bell
was tied.
“Mother,” she sald finaly, “Look
at that cow with the padlock around
her neck!”
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“CAPTAIN SEES
VOODOD DANGE
American Witnesses Horri-
ble Ceremony Practiced
by Haitians.
Pratt, Kan.—An eye witness of a
horrible snake dance by Haitian na-
tives around a voodoo altar, Capt.
Ray E. Colton, who visited here re-
cently, said probably the only reason
he lives to tell what he saw was that
he was with a detachment of Ameri-
_ can marines, well armed with machine
guns. :
For ordinarily to be caught viewing
voodoo worship in Haiti means death
to the onlooker if he happens to be 2
_nonbeliever.
“While out one day with a patrol
of marines I witnessed from a place
of concealment the dance of the Ca-
linda, or sacred dance of the serpent,”
said Captain Colton. “The worshipers
form a circle around the voodoo altar.
At a given signal from the voodoo
. high priest a loud moaning and shout
: ing starts.
“This continues to the steady roll
of the tom-toms, or native drums.
When the incantations and yelling
have about reached their highest pitch
the high priest liberates several live
snakes from a wicker basket which
sets to the left of the sacrificial altar
Bite Off Snakes’ Heads.
“These are immediately grabbed by
the lesser priests and chiefinins, and
I have seen these fiends bite the heads
. off the living reptiles in their wild
frenzy of voodoo worship. Then comes
the dance of the Calinda. Tumult,
yelling and shouting reign supreme.
The worshipers go into hysterics, beat-
ing their chests with their hands and
lacerating their naked bodies with
their finger nails. They begin to gy-
rate around in circles. The tom-toms
beat louder. Some of the worshipers
fall into a swoon and are carried away
by waiting attendants. The oracle of
the serpént, the python deity, then
speaks in a strange, unnatural voice
from the mouth of the voodoo high
priest. He lays down irrevocable laws
in the name of the serpent. Then the
ceremony is ended.
Offer Human Sacrifices.
“It is a common thing for this
strange tribe to offer up a colored
baby as a sacrifice to the voodoo god,”
the captain declared. “Babies are
sometimes saved from this untimely
fate by machine guns of the marines
who are generally on the lookout for
this particular ceremony. It usually |y
occurs after a long protracted drouth,
the offering up of the sacrifice being
‘0 appease the voodoo god.”
Captain Colton has served in many
foreign nations. As a marine he par-
ticipated in the Haitian, Santo Do-
minican and Cuban revolutions, served
twenty-seven months during the World
war in France, and for services ren-
dered was awarded the Croix de
Guerre, the French war cross. He is
en route to China and the Far East.
His knowledge about Haiti was
learned in hand-to-hand combat with
voodoo worshipers there. The captain
carries a scar above his, right eye,
implanted there by the knife of 3
Haitian.
Canada Best Customer
of U. S. in Year 1929
Ottawa.—Reports of . the United
States Chamber of Commerce show
Canada to have been the best cus-
tomer of the United States in 1929
for the second consecutive year as
well as the principal distributor of
foreign products in the republic. The
reports show that Canada’s purchases
from the United States amounted to
near $1,000,000,000 and were 18.1 per
cent of the whole, exceeding those of
1928 by $33,788,000. The United King-
dom held second place with exports at
$867,980,000 (from the United States).
Imports from Canada amounted to
. $504,000,000, or a gain of $14,974,000
She watched |
over 1928. Japan came second in its
volume of exports to the states, the
year’s value being $431,873,000.
Shot by Soldier He
Had Sworn to “Get”
Tacoma, Wash.—Returning to Fort
Lewis with the avowed intention to
kill the soldier who testified against
him In his recent trial, Charles Riley,
escaped prisoner, was shot and seri-
ously wounded by Private Harry A.
Stephens, the man he had sworn to
“get.” On April 10 Riley and another
private, John C. Lino, were sentenced
to a federal prison for stealing arms.
They threatened to “get” Stephens for
his testimony and escaped soon aft-
erwards.
Canadians Have $100
Per Capita in U. 8.
Ottawa, Ont.—Canadian investments
In the United States &re greater, per
capita, than American investments in
Canada. An official statement just
issued shows that the average Can-
adian has about $100 invested in the
United States and the average Amer-
fcan about $20 invested in Canada.
Ten Years in College;
Earns Three Degrees
Minneapolis. — After spending ten
years at the University of Minnesota
and earning three degrees, Thomas
Rigor of the Phillippine Islands will
leave for his home to devote the rest
of his life in the improvement of his
country.
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your next shopping tour. We
offer daily meats for every
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