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that time.
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The Democratic Watchman
LIGHTS ) RIG
of NEW YORK
Frederick 8. Dellenbaugh, who lives
just down the street from me, ia one
of the only two living survivors of
Major J. W. Powell's second expedi-
tion through the Grand canyon of the
Colorado, which, by the way, Is in
Arizona. The other survivor is Capt.
PF. M. Bishop of Salt Lake City. It
took the party two years to make that |
trip In oaken boats 22 feet long, made
in Chicago and shipped over the Union |
Pacific to Green River, Wyo.
While on that trip, the cook taught
young Fred Dellenbaugh to make bis- |
cuit. One day, he was left to take
care of the camp by the river bed
while the
canyon. He promised to have some
biscuits ready on their return, but in
| going over the provisions came Across
| a bag of coffee, which the cook bad
ground. Mr. Dellenbaugh then de-
cided on a surprise.
He had heard of “coffee cake” and
determined to make some. Fixing the |
dough as he would for biscuits, he
mixed with it a plentiful supply of
the ground coffee, moulded it into
the shape of a cake, and baked it in
| an oven he constructed. In addition,
he used some sugar, with the result
that the cake retained every thumb-
mark as clearly as would a good grade
of putty.
When the party returned, hungry
and tired, the cook took one look at
the cake, stirred up the fire, and
wearily reached for the bacon and po-
| tatoes. But Mr. Dellenbaugh was not
| to be discouraged, He later made a |
| cake flavored with one bottle of lem-
on extract taken on the trip, which
was pronounced a great success. The
trip ended in 1872, and Mr. Dellen-
baugh has done very little cooking |
since. Perhaps when the boat tipped
over in a rapids and most of the cook-
| ing utensils were lost, it discouraged
him,
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Walter Davenport told me one ot
| the best football yarns I ever heard
| When his outfit was In France, there
were a number of former gridiron
stars in It and to occupy moments of
| pelaxation they formed an eleven. It
eleven that fit
was such a good
trimmed all the other teams in the
| division, but there was one big bird
| on it who stood head and shoulders
above the rest. He tore any oppos-
| ing offense into fragments and threw
the pieces away.
“I know where that big boy is go
ing after this man's war Is over,”
| said one of the former college stars.
“He's headed for Yale.”
“Not on your life,” sald a former
wearer of the Crimson. “He is bound
for Harvard"
“If you fellows want to know some |
thing,” sald the coach, “he is not go-
ing to either.”
“I suppose you already have him
cied up for your alma mater,” said
the Yale and Harvard men accusing-
ly and in unison.
“No,” said the coach, “but I know
something about that guy that neither
of you know,”
“What's that?" demanded the sus |
| plcious duo.
“Merely,” sald the coach, “that h
happens he can neither read nor |
write,”
story of Dutch efficiency. He says
that when he was In a foreign capitol,
a young Hollander, who had only one |
arm, got a notice that he must re-
port at home for military duty. Go- |
ll ing to his embassy, he forced his way
and told his story.
“Look!” he exclaimed. “I cannou
serve. You can see I have oaly one
| arm.”
“Personally,” said the ambassador, |
“I can see that what you say is true;
| but officially, I can see nothing.”
So the young man had te go home
and be excused by the army doctor, |
| but he did mapage to make them pay
| for the trip.
This reminds me of the late war
Once, in a southern training camp, I
was detailed In charge of a consider-
able number of men who had been
sent down by draft boards. One of
these men had a steel brace on his
leg, which he had been obliged to wear
since childhood and another was blind
in one eye.
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Ralph Hitz says that husbands whe
| eave home, slamming the door be-
hind them, usually go to hotels. Rela-
tively few of them, he maintains, go
to clubs, In spite of what novelists
write.
“And,” adds Mr. Hitz, “hotels have
had enough experience In such mat-
ters so that they could tell a woman
a lot about how to treat a husband.”
® &
As a matter of fact, New York ho
tels cater to about every class and
nationality on earth. I frequently
have thought that about the best ex-
perience a novelist of the modern
| realistic school could get would be to
take a job In a hotel as a bell boy
or floor mald, depending upon the
| novelist. They would see more life
in less time than they would travel-
| ing around the world. Take a hotel
!
| Scott county found a two-headed cop- |
perhead snake. Both heads were nor- |
i
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with a turnover of 200 guests a day.
That Is 73,000 a year, and that would
furnish a lot of human specimens.
Twe-Headed Snake Caught
Marion, Va.—Kenneth Derry of
mal and possessed fangs.
remainder of the party
climbed 8,000 feet up the side of the
| from its hill In the city of Hancock
Hendrik W. Van Loon tells me a | across Portage lake. The Quincy at
into the presence of the ambassador — Detroit Free Press.
T Customs of Old Jerfol from October 1 to Decem~
and New Worlds Alike GEESE IS REDUCED .
From A. D. 45, when the Hungarians | pu hunting in P wil 10a long continued drought of
conquered and enslaved the Magyar pe confined to the month of October | northern places for water-
to 862, when the Hungarians were
split by enemies, the Hungarians con-
sisted of ten tribes and it was their
custom to have each tribe recognize
a certain animal or bird as its sacred |
animal, and in thelr own langusge- | Liv Sey
that is, the Ugor language—they called | av a a0 of ip
such animal or bird their “totem.” It
| is surprising that Alaskan and North | change in open season. A prior an-
American Indians alse coll such av | nouncement from Washington fixed
wal or bird by the same name.
And it was the custor: of the Hun-
garians of those days to have each
| man wear some part of the animal or
' bird which hig tribe recognized as its
totem in his cap or headgear, in bat-
tles and battle maneuvers, so that he
| be easily distinguishable as to which
tribe he belonged. This also has a
striking resemblance to the custom of |
the North American Indians of wear
‘ng feathers on their heads.
And the name of one of the princl
pals of the Kuns was Akos, which In |
their own language meant “white
| cloud.” The Kuns were a relative
people to the Hungarians.—Exchange.
fowl, affecting not only the hatch
only under regulations adopted
Biological the
| by
| the United States Sur-
| vey, Washington, D. C. The same
open season will apply to geese,
brant and coot.
endorsed the action of
authorities and that they believed
the step necessary if the various
species are to be saved from exter
CREDIT
he business of the world is done on credit.
Credit is based on faith -- on the belief that
promises will be kept.
Sacred Manuscripts in
Profusion in Chicago
Rare gospel manuscripts, dating |}
pack several centuries, have come to |
light in the Greek, Armenian and Sy- |
rian colonies of Chicago, the Chicago
Association of Commerce announces.
Recent discoveries of important manu-
scripts have revealed Chicago as a rich
hunting ground comparable with age
old cities of Europe and the Near
East.
The latest discovery, which has beew |
purchased by the New Testament de- |
partment of the University of Chicago,
| is a Thirteenth-century manuscript of |
the gospels in Greek, and is regarded
by experts as being one of the finest
| known pleces of cursive, or running- |
hand script, writing in any collection.
The manuscript was brought into the
United States in 1916 from Jamina,
the Albanian city noted for its mo-
nastic library of the Greek Orthodox
church. It was found In the posses- |
| sion of a Chicago dentist.
Hence the most important thing a business
man can have is CHARACTER.
The first question asked about his is, “What
is his reputation for honesty, for reliability ?”’
The lack of these qualities is not long conceal-
ed. One’s neighbors know.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Love and Live
People In love live longer, and bet-
ter, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, noted London
physician, told the audience at the an-
nual meeting of the Lady Margaret
hospital.
And the other extreme, nagging, is
“glow murder,” the doctor sald. 5
Purported assets of belng In love, | }
according to Doctor Oldfield, are
Better digestion.
Glossier skin and sheener hair,
Food tastes better,
“When a woman starts nagging her |
nusband,” he sald, “she is committing
sige murder and at the same time
taking the first step toward becoming | f§
haggard, ugly and old. When a wom- | |
an goes ‘green with jealousy’ she is ' Jif
straining ber hepatic duct.”
& Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years in the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Mining Possibilities
“There is no known limit to the pos-
dible depth of our mining,” says an
expert. “It is all a question of get
ting fresh air down to the men.” Part
of the answer to the question is fur
pished by the Quincy mine, the Old
Reliable, which overlooks Houghton
its extreme depth is finding richer ore
than it has for several years past.
They call it “secondary mineraliza-
tion.” Copper, for all the scientists | Ii}
know, may extend many thousands of | Hii
| feet more into the center of the earth.
Four-Eyed Fish gd
Among the specimens recently added
| to the collection of a Philadelphia mu: |
seum Is a four-eyed fish from Hondu- |
ras. It was taken from the Rio Cho-
luteca. The existence of such a fish
has been known, but specimens are ex-
ceedingly rare, It was accompanied
by about 100 other fish specimens. A
pine-inch moth was the leading fea-
ture of the Insect collection from the
| same locality. The expedition was §
| somewhat hampered In Its werk by
the prevalence of fogs of such density Bl
as would put the London fog to Ji
shame. There were days when the Ji}
explorers dared net to venture a few §
feet from the cave in which they
made their headquarters.
Crisp as a frosty morning. It’s great how
a new hat peps up your appearance.
It's time to chuck your straw. You will
like the new Fall styles we are showing—
Stetson, Mallory, and others.
Stetsons at $7.00
Mallorys at $5.00
Other Makes from $2.50 to $4.00
Savage Internal Warfare
In 1648 the Cossacks rose against’ Hil
the Polish-Ukrainian lords who sought. '§
to Impose upon them the Roman Cath-s
olie faith In lleu of their own Greek §
Catholic religion. The Cossacks fought |
with the utmost brutality, overcoming
the Poles and torturing thelr leaders. §
to death. Their Roman Catholic Hi
priests were hanged before the altars Ji {|
with a butchered hog on one side and | §§
a Jew on the other. When, after more | Hi}
than a year, this religious rebellion
was put dewn, the Cossack leaders
were punished with equal brutality.
The Lowest Prices in Over 10 Years
They are at, Fauble’s
Your Kind at. Your Prices
Wildcat Loses to Locomotive
A wildcat battled a locomotive near |
Statesboro, Ga., recently and died gal
lantly under the wheels of the roar
ing monster. The engineer says the §§
noise of the train frightened a covey |
of quail the bobeat was stalking. An-
gered at the Intrusion the animal
leaped upon the tracks and flew into
the face of the oncoming tram. The
train roared on Into the night and a
pathetic ball of fur and flesh remained
on the tracks the sole reminder of the
| outcome.