Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, September 05, 1930, Image 6
Bellefonte, Pa., September 5, 1930. mm Builders of Casa Grande People of Pueblo Type? Casa Grande is a ruined structure «pf prehistoric origin in the valley of | the Gila river near Florence, Ariz. It ‘miay have been seen by white men vomnected with the Coronado exped!- tion 1540; it was certainly discovered ‘hy Padre Kino in 1894, and was re- visited by him in 1697. In 1889 con- ;gress provided for the protection of ithe ruin as a monument of antiquity, and in 1892 the structure and the ad- Jacent grounds were set apart as a public reservation In care of a cus fodian. It is of cajon or pise con- struction, that is, adobe or mud, mold- <ed in place, in walls three to five feet hick at the ground, thinning upward. “The surfaces were plastered with a =wlip of adobe clay. There are five zooms in the ground plan; portions «of three stories remain, and there may ‘have been a fourth In part of the structure. Recent exploration has shown that the main structure de- scribed above is only a small part «of the ruin. The buildings are assem- ‘bled in great walled rectangles called compounds, of which four exist at this Fuin. The Casa Grande ruin is almost im a class by itself, but in pottery, <gte., It shows very strong affiliations ‘with the Pueblo ruins, of which it may perhaps be considered a frontier ex- sample, It may have been built by the -ancestors of the modern Pima who in- ‘habit the country today, but it seems amore likely that its builders were other people of a more distinct Pueblo Rype. Rose Always Figures in Ceremonies and Feasts In ancient times as now the rose «was the adornment chosen for great <pccasions, religious, secular or simple and social. When Cleopatra gave her great banquet for Mark Antony roses “were spread on the floors three feet ‘thick. The most pretentious banquet the Roman Nero gave was a feast of Toses, though the flowers had to be ‘sent from Egypt in winter. On the “Campagna the Roman people cele brated a rose festival; in the Middle ages there was observed in Byzan- ium the “Dies Rosarium,” and at Epirus was kept another rose festival called “Rozalia.” In times all but for- “gotten the “Days of the Violets” were ‘observed to honor spring, but the “Days of Roses,” held in the month «of June, bespoke the coming of sum: mer. New Urleans Conducts Business Over Coffee Few affairs of importance have been discussed in New Orleans except over a cap of coffee, writes Ralph A, Graves “4n the National Geographic Magazine. “Here, as in the Near East, business ~seems to function more easily to the ~@eeompaniment of sips of the bitter Black French drip than in any other, »a@nd the most harassed executives will :pause for ten minutes in mid-morning, HJeave their offices and go to the res- “taurant or the hotel for a cup of cof +“ fee—nothing more. On the top floor of one of the most : progressive banks in the state—and dn countless other establishments, no ~doubt—there is a special kitchen and «dining room to which the employees ivetire when the bank closes at three; after their cup of coffee they returr “to their desks. In one big manufacturing plant ev- «ery workman brings with him each morning a small coffee pot which he «deposits under his pet steam-leaking valve, so that as the condensing hot water drips constantly, he provides himself with small quaffs of the bev- agrage throughout the day. ‘Scientists Find Many 2 Metals in Human Body Such figurative expressions as “a zmeart of gold,” ‘the iron fist,” and “with leaden feet” are recalled by the :gecent investigation of two French «whemists. Through spectroscopic ex- :amination of the ashes of human or- | .gans, says Popular Science Monthly. ‘they found there are copper, alumi smum and a little silver in the heart; -gopper, aluminum and traces of the :rare metal, titanium, in the lungs; .«gobalt, nickel, lead and silver in the “pancreas; copper, lead and silver in “the liver; aluminum, silver and coppel 4n the kidneys and the near-by ad -zenal glands, and silver, tin and cop per in the spleen. The brain appeared to be rich wtin, and this metal was also found in the thyroid gland, in the neck ‘evhich also contained silver, copper, “dead and zinc. Evil Omen of Friday Friday the thirteenth has long been wegarded as an evil omen. The idea ds 2,000 years old. Jesus was crucl fied on Friday. At the “Last Supper” there were thirteen at the table, Therefore, I'riday the thirteenth aneans double trouble, and probably will as long as the Christian religion endures. i site of Marseilles, In connection with this, it | 1s sald to be unlucky for thirteen peo- | ple to sit down to the table for dinner | for one of them will die within a year and all will be unhappy. Doctor Kitch- ener once remarked that there was -one case when it was really unlucky “for thirteen people to sit down to din- mer together, and that was when there | was only food enough for twelve, Iceland Althing First of World Parliaments Iceland in June, 1930, celebrated iwo great events: the one hundred nineteenth birthday of Jon Sigurds- son, its George Washington, who wrung home rule from Denmark in 1874; the thousandth anniversary of the althing, oldest parliament in the world. A century before the battle of Hast- ings, 850 years before our own gov- ernment was founded, the franklins (free landowners) of Ireland were liv- ing under a constitution (the constitu tion of Ulfiot) and a regularly consti- tuted lawmaking body. The althing met in midsummer and was the occa- sion for great feasts and merrymak- ing, as well as numerous bruises, lac- arations and concussions. What political life and law were like in the old days is recorded in Iceland sagas and law codes. The althing did not function perfectly, nor did the judicial system which was set up, the real governing being done by the vari- ous chieftains; nevertheless, the al- thing forms a magnificent tradition. It looks down from its hoary eminence with paternal solicitude for such youthful bodies as the English house of commons and the United States congress, Many Plants That Lure Insects to Their Death There are a great many varieties of insectivorous plants which grow al- most all over the world. The first group of these plants is known as the | pitcher plants, which have the blos- | som in the form of a pitcher which | acts as a death trap for flies and other insects. The insects are attracted by | a fragrance or some other lure, enter | the mouth of the pitcher, and crawl down toward the bottom, being forced onward by small spikes downward pointing from the sides of the pitcher's throat. The poor fly is thus given no chance to escape and when he reaches the bottom he is caught in the sticky mass of fluid there and his body juices absorbed by the plant. Two other types of insectivorous plants are the Venus’ flytrap genus and the Dionaea which grows only in the low coast re- gions of North Carolina. This little . plant is probably the most famous | stem variety of the insect-eating . plants. A third type is a Sundew , Drosera, which is common to Aus- tralia. This is also a large genus cop- taining a great variety of species. Bit of Greece in France Antibes, like all the other places along the fascinating French Riviera, has had a romantic history, says a writer in the Detroit News. founded more than 2,000 years ago by descendants of the Greek colonists who had built a thriving city on the Legend says that among these first settlers were some It was men and women who had come from Greece and that they chose Antibes as a place to build because the scenery there reminded them so much of Greece. Phenicians and Carthaginians, Romans and Gauls, Germans and Ital- ians and French—they have all met on this coast in the centuries that have passed since, but Antibes has man- aged more than any other town in France to retain its Greek appear ance. University’s Art Treasure A full-size copy of Murillo’s “Im maculate Conception” in mosaics is in the chapel of the Catholic university at Washington, a gift from Pope Pius XI. Three artists labored nearly four years in the Vatican mosaic studio to piece together nearly 800,000 bits of colored glass and of other mineral compounds which form the finished picture, the original of which is pre- served in the Prado at Madrid. The mosaic is 9% feet long and 6 feet wide. Without a frame, it weighs 6,600 pounds. The pieces are of 20,- 000 different tints and shades. Beautiful Capetown ‘The sea voyage to South Africa is the fair weather voyage of the world. Capetown, once a remote outpost of civilization, is today one of the world’s finest cities. It is not only beautiful and delightfully situated but the cape is historical as well, for it was here in 1487 that Dias saw the sea-route to India and this incited Columbus, who in his search for India found America instead. The discov-" eries between 1487 and 1497 mark this era as the dawn after the Dark ages and the first rays hit*the cape when Dias discovered his way around. Mythological Birds Probably the best known of the fab ulous birds of prey were the roc, which was a bird so enormous that it obscured the sun where it flew and carried away men in its talons; the phoenix, which was a bird with a beautiful voice and a long tail like a peacock’s, which was supposed to rise from the ashes of fire; and the harpy, which was a terrible bird with a wom- an’s face and breast and great claws like an eagle's, which pursued men who “had sinned. Magnification The magnifying power of a tele scope is proportional to its length’ as well as the shortness of focus of its eyeplece. Thus the use of different eyepieces yields different magnifying powers, but those exceeding 1,000 are seldom used because of the trembling of the earth’s atmosphere. Compound microscopes may magnify as much’ as 4,000 times. Need Not Have Worri=d About Waking Family This newspaper man is & most thoughtful person and it is very séi- dom that he leaves his home for an evening out. But he did so one eve. ning recently, intending to be out only a half hour or so. The half hour stretched into several hours and it was nearly midnight when he reached home. He thought as he approached the door that his wife and son would pe sound asleep at that hour so he tiptoed softly after opening and clos- ing the door more quietly than he had ever done before. Even breathing more gently than usual lest he disturb the sleepers, he finally reached his own room without hearing any sound to indicate that he had awakened anybody. Next morning at breakfast his wife casually told him that she went out to play bridge the night before and did not reach home until about two hours after his own arrival. The son reached home even later than his mother. Husband and father still believes in being thoughtful and hopes he didn’t disturb the family cat.—Brockton Er terprise. Remarkable Salt Lake in Central Australia Lake Eyre might be called Austra- lia’s “Great Salt Lake.” It is located only about 250 miles southeast of the geographical center of the continent and because of its desert surroundings has been called “Australia’s dead heart.” The lake and its immediate sur- roundings constitute the only area in Australia that lies below sea level Its shore line is 30 feet lower than the ocean waters that surround the | continent. The bottom of the lake | can be considered with little error as at the same level, for Lake Eyre is in reality only a tremendous salt: flat that is covered from time to time with a few inches of water. It becomes a lake after droughts are broken by unusual rains in the far- away Queensland plains, so that floods down the usually dry river rush courses that lead to this closed basin. But quickly the shallow covering of water evaporates and the “lake” be- romes first damp and then dry. Flesh-Eating Ants The safari ant belongs to the sub: family Dorylinae, of which the genus Dorylus, with several subgenera, fre- quents nearly all parts of Africa. These ants usually make only tem- porary nests, but spend most of their time wandering in long files. The size varies from quite minute forms to over one-half inch in length. The mandi- bles are very strong and the ant also has a powerful sting and a swarm is able to kill animals or birds that fit may come upon. These ants some- times enter houses in search of vermin and on these occasions the people leave till the ants are through. The same general type of ant occurs in almost all the tropical countries, except on islands. The female is without wings, which makes its distribution to islands impossible. Terrifying Records One of the most plays at the New York Academy of i Medicine, says an article in the New York Herald Tribune, is a chart, com- piled a century ago, in the columns of which are arranged the records of fascinating dis- |! cases, guaranteed authentic by the | author, of persons who have died of spontaneous combustion as a result of ; drink. In one case recorded combus- tion was “complete” in one “who had : abused spirits for three years,” and in | another even more terrifying event combustion was absolute “save for a part of the skull and the last joints of the fingers” and th) cause is given as “too great a prox. nity to a foot stove.” The Grip of Gold There are metals rarer than gola and more precious. But no other sub- stance remotely approaches gold in its grip upon the imagination of man- kind. We do not speak of the Plat- inum Rule or of the Radium Gate. We discuss, instead, golden days and golden youth and golden weddings and a golden future. - Gold is the uni- versal symbol of riches, the inevit- able metaphor of weelth. And in ad- dition it is the solid and unsentl- mental foundation on which the world’s structure of currency and credit is built.—Fortune. Creative Instinct Once the motive of craftsmansip went far toward keeping the world efficient and happy. This motive, and its self-expression through the homely arts, can be applied with as much satisfaction in the fleld of consump- tion as it ever was in production. Es- pecially for men whose part in the productive system is highly mechan- ized, the creative instinct can find expression in the arts of use, and in the subordinate art of buying well.— From the World Tomorrow. Water a Crop of the Forest Forests are not only generous friend: : because of the raw material they fur- nish, says the American Tree associa- tion. They are useful in the con- servation of water for domestie use, for irrigation, navigation and water power; they help to prevent floods and soll washing; they add greatly to the scenic beauty of our land ; they furnish a home for many of our birds anil wild animals; they offer a wonderful . place for healthful recreation. i ! near an abandoned gold mine and Person of Unusual Size Classed as Monstrosity Many persons admire giants, per- haps envy them, and imagine that they are examples of a superior hu- manity. A complete error; for gigant- ism is an anomaly, a monstrosity, as much so as dwarfism. It is really a disease. The work of anthropologists has shown that the giant is a man that is still a child, in whose case growth does not stop at the age when normally he ought to have ceased to grow. The giant is rarely well-proportioned; his hands and feet are almost always too large, his face is generally distorted. Physicians who have studied gigant- ism say that glants are all diabetic. Professor Landouzy says also that al- most all of them are candidates for tuberculosis. They are subject to all sorts of other morbid troubles; they tire sooner than normal persons; they are unfit for all violent labor; their muscles are weak in spite of their size; their nerves lack resistance, and they are often affected with neuras- thepia. Handsome giants are rare.— Jean Lecoq in Le Petit Journal, Paris St. David’s Day Holiday for Grecian Youngsters The Welsh are not the only folk who keep holiday on St. David's day, says an article in the Montreal Family Herald. In Greece it is called Swal- low day, the festival of spring, when the children go from house to house gathering small gifts and carrying wooden swallows, which they spin around to the accompaniment of folk songs. Some of these “swallow songs” have a long history. One of them has been traced back, indeed, more thar 2,000 years. - Jesus college, “Little Wales in Ox- ford,” as the facetious have called it, because of the preponderance of Joneses there, has its own method of: celebrating St. David’s day. For one thing there is the toasting of St. Da- vid in “swig,” an exclusive and potent Jesus college brew. This is dispensed by a ladle that holds half a pint, from a beautiful silver bowl presented for the purpose by Sir Watkin Williams- Wynn in 1732. Derivation of “Tariff” According to Edwards’ ‘Words, Facts and Phrases,” the word “tariff” comes from the Moorish name “Tarifa,” a fortress that stands on Cape Tarifa, a Spanish promontory commanding the entrance to the Medi- terranean. When the Moors had pos- session they levied duties at certain fixed rates upon all merchandise pass- ing in or out of the straits. The Cen- tury dictionary and other authorites on etymology, however, give the word a different origin. It comes from an Italian word, “tariffa,” meaning “cast- ing of accounts” or “list of prices,” which was itself derived from the Arabian “arif,” meaning “knowing.” Adjustable Owl An “adjustable” owl is on view at the zoo, London. It is known as a European Scops owl, and, though in- gignificant in size, being normally less than six inches high, it is regard- ed as a great rarity. The color and markings of its plumage are like those of a tree trunk. When at rest the owl elongates its body and sits motionless in such a position that it resembles the stump of a branch. But a remarkable change comes over it when alarmed. It blows out its body, which visibly grows in size like a toy balloon being inflated. The bird is then almost globular in shape and quite unlike its elongated self. Theory Made Real A few years ago at a meeting a banker opined that the total amount of money in the world ought to be equivalent to the total wealth of the world; else, he suggested, people would never be able to pay their debts. He explained that«™in the — Wayne 24 per cent. Dairy ... 2.50 Wayne 20 per cent. Dairy........ 2.30 Wayne 16%Dairy Ration .... 2.00 Wayne Egg Mash .........cccoc.... 2.90 Wayne 189 Pig Meal .... 2.75 . Wayne 289, Hog Meal 2.95 ! Wayne Calf Meal............ ai 14,28 Rydes Calf Meal....................... 4.50 BAR o.cineiinin ioc pesunintncnssssinssmsssiries 1.70 Ao Midds eaten. 1.90 B. 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Pillsbury Flour............ 1.90 United States there were $20 of wealth for every dollar of money, and there- fore there was but one chance in twenty of a debtor's paying his debts. *] will give $5,” he said, “to anyone who can disprove that statement.” When tb one accepted the chai lenge, a wag suggested it was because there was only one chance in twenty of getting the promised $5. Talcum Production North Carolina powders the nose ot the United States, having one of the ° biggest talcum mines in the country much more valuable than any gold mine. From the same rock which pro- vides the finest and sbftest talcum for the faces and arms of women comes the talcum used in roofing and auto- mobile tires. Much of that is sold to the motor industry, while the finer kind that goes into dainty powder boxes measures 80,000 particles to the inch and is guaranteed to shed water, resist fire and weather and protect:all underlying surfaces.—Capper's*Weekly. Three Was the Limit “You must give your husband five teaspoonflils of this mixture every night before he goes to bed,” ordered the doctor. | ; The patient's wife looked a little disconcerted. “Five!” she sald. “I can’t doctor. I'm afraid that's quite impossible.” Bhe doctor frowned. “Infbossible?” he sald. “Oh, non sense! What on earth do you mean?” “Well, sir,” explained ‘the woman, “I don’t think we've got more than three in the hopse.” : em POPULATION GAINS ON ‘PENNSY’ LINES. Approximately half the country’s total population lives in the terri- tory served by the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, according to a com- pilation made public by the railroad, based on the estimated 1930 census figures recently announced. The population of this territory has in- creased 30 per cent in the last de- cade, the census shows. Although occupying less than one- seventh of the area of the United States, the thirteen States and the District of Columbia reached direct- ly by the railroad have a population of more than 61,000,000 people, ac- cording to the Government's figures. The population of cities alone on the Pennsylvania Railroad has gained almost 5,000,000 since 1920, a 20 per cent advance in the ten-year period. In 1920 cities of more than 10,000 people in Pennsylvania Railroad ter- ritory had an approximate population of 23,800,000. According to unof- ficial figures from the latest census, these communities have grown to a total of 28,600,000, or approximately one-fourth of the entire population of the United States, FEED We Offer Subject to Market Changes: per 100lb Hecla Scraich Feed ............... 2.30 Wayne 32 per cent. Dairy ...... 2.60 Orders for one ton or more de- livered without extra charge. We make no charge for mixing your own rations. 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