The Mark
By RALPH ANDRE
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Great
stantinople, readers will recollect, was |
originally a Christian cathedral, It’ 2
was founded by Constantine, and aft- |
| er suffering from several devastating
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TIMMY BEDFORD clenched his
teeth to keep them from chatter-
ing. For weeks he had tried to sum-
mon courage to propose to Janet
Ames, It was his last chance, for to-
morrow he would sail for South Amer-
jca. He forced himself to look at her.
Her lips were parted, her head
cocked in that pert little way she hud. |
Bewitchingly lovely, vibrant with
health and love of life, infinitely
weet and desirable she seewed.
Her bright glance caught his and |
held. Something in the misty depths |
of the soft brown eyes gave him a
breathless courage. He had a wild |
Impulse to shout but the tightness in
his throat made his volce low and
husky. “Janet . . . I—that is—1 love
you. Will you marry me?”
She retreated a Step that brought
her face into shadow. Seconds ticked
into eternity, became minutes, hours,
years, before she answered. “No, Jim-
my, I cannot .
be poor .
. we would always |
. can't you see, Jimmy? |
It’s—It's—because you're So easy go- |
ing. You're just a mark, a dear lov- |
able mark . . . be like Bernard Wax: |
ner. No one imposes on him. He Is
& man of the world and he uses mod- |
ern methods . bound to su©
fob, °"
A smart fellow, Wagner. He hac
gone into the building contracting
business In their home town. Fvery
one knew thut “Bunny” Wagner was
a comer; a
exclaimed with devout vanity
hard-headed business |
man: a competitor who was hard to |
peat. Ruthless In his methods but
|
popular, nevertheless, Men hailed him |
en the street, in clubs, everywhere. |
They liked his brisk style and easy
cordiality. He succeeded at every
thing he tackled.
Dumb and miserable, Jimm;
little chin would relent; knew that it |
would not. Then dully, slowly, the
rest of her soft accusation burned in, |
His chin came up and the glance from
hig mild blue eyes was level, His
voice was steady as he held out his
hand and said good-by.
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Jimmy pitched his camp on the |
aleak mountainside where the ley
plasts from the eternal snows on the |
rugged peaks of the Bolivian Cordil- |
feras hurtled down and tore savage
ly at his frail tent.
self into his work with grim purpose.
He saved his money as never before.
It became a byword that anyone
sould make a touch from “easygoing
Jimmy Bedford” To his Aymara In-
dlans he was “Don Santiago” (St,
James). No one knew that the smil-
He threw him- |
ing, optimistic Jimmy carried a con-
stant dull sche in his heart. He could |
not. forget Janet Ames, but he stub: |
bornly ‘resisted an overwhelming de
gire to write to her. The silence be- |
tween: them held for three heart-tear
ing years. At the latter end of his |
tract he tore open a letter from
ard Wagner with cold misgivings
“Near Old Friend Jimmy:"” it be-
gan. A puzzled frown spread over
Jimmy's face as his eyes strayed to
the signature at the bottom. He read,
bewildered.
“« _ . and If you could just let me
have a small loan—say twenty-five—
“Otherwise, things have heen go-
ing well for your old pal. You, of
course, remember Janet Ames. Well,
eld boy, I'm the lucky fellow . . .
thought once you had the inside track
. . . be married in June. . . ."
The letter dropped from Jimmy's
sold fingers and he sat staring . . .
Home. Jimmy swung from the train
and looked abont the station for his
father and mother.
| contracts
a8 her last words came to him again, | bound themselves at a low wage to
They would he
He wus glad to be back. He
sjong.
sald it seyernl times as If it were »
witual to which he must cling. It was
to see old faces, fawillar sights.
{ ing looked the same. Not
quite,
His roving glance took in the on
fice and yard diagonally across the
street. The windows were dirty and
vacant, the yard deserted. A swing
ing right angle sign creaked noisily
in the wind. “Bernard Wagner, Con.
tractor,” it said. Jimmy rubbed his
chin. “Bunny” would have moved Into
the new ten-story bank building he
Bad built, Jimmy's eyes strayed to
#t. a block up the street. It was pol
yot finished. It, somehow, looked
dead.
“Jimmy,” said a timid voice at hi:
elbow.
- et i™
His heart contracted as he looked at
ger with wondering eyes. She was
making a brave effort although the
glistening eves belied the smile on her
sensitive mouth. Her dress was neat
but a tric shabby. Why, it was the
ssme one she bad worn that last
night! He remembered those pink
flowers and the lacy what-you-call-it
around the top of It. Her shoes.
He realized by her heightenad color
that he was staring; that she was
pitifully aware of her clothes, and he
looked again across the street.
“Where's ‘Bonny’ now?" His vole. |
was wracked with pain. It sounded
thin and metallic as it came from the
top of his throat.
“He's gone. 1"
off and he wheeled
Her voice traileu
in amazement,
1 ;
She was fumbling in her purse. He | basic principle of which nds Ypon
could only see the point of her chin.
It was quivering. Presently she
found what she sought and held it
out—an envelope. Dumbly, mechan-
icglly, he opened it and drew out a
¢heck, It hore his signature; and on
the paper it said,
“Pay to the order of Bernard Wag
ner
“TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. . . ."
conflagrations was rebuilt permanent- |
ly In 532-37 by Justinian the Great, fa- |
mous as the author of the Byzantine |
‘egal code,
Procopius avers In his Secret His
tory that Justinian was of infernai
parentage on the male side; but the
emperor's devotion to at least the out- |
ward forms of religion suggests some
vrejudice on the part of the historian.
The edifice Justinian constructed on |
the ruins of its immediate predecessor, |
destroyed during a political row in the
capital, was accounted one of the ma- |
jor wonders of the medieval world.
Gibbon relates that “Anthemius
formed the design and his genius di-
rected the hands of 10,000 workmen, |
whose payment in pieces of fine sil- |
ver was never delayed beyond the eve- |
ning;:"” and he recounts how “the em-
peror himself, clad in linen tunic, sur
vered each day their rapid progress
and encouraged their diligence by his
familiarity, his zeal and his rewards.”
So the great cathedral was complet
ed In five years, eleven months and
ten days at a cost of what would
amount to about $3,000,000 in modern
money, an immense sum in the Sixth
century. “And,” says Gibbon, “in the
midst of the solemn festival Justinian
‘Glory
be to God. who hath thought me
worthy to accomplish so great a work:
I have vanquished thee, O Solomon."
Gold in Quantity Dug
From Hills of Wicklow
Bracelets and necklets of pure gold,
and 1,000 years old, which came from
Ireland, have been discovered on a
farm at Towednack, St. Ives, Cornwall,
Such finds are treasure-trove and he-
come the property of the crown, but
watched her; wondered if that firm | the finders will receive practically the
full value of the gold after it has heen
One of World's Wonders | o
The mosque of St. Sophia, at Con- | §
examined by experts. The gold was |
obtained from the Wicklow hills. Gold |
has been obtained from the same
source in large quantities until com- |
paratively modern times.
ber, 1795, the Wicklow nugget was
found, It weighed 22 ounces, and was
made Into a snuff box for George ILL
One of the richest finds of Irish gold
was the great Clare find of 1854. Four
laborers were working on a new cut-
ting for the Limerick & Ennis railway
In Septem- |
when one of them turned over a pile |
of gold, One man was so excited that
he dropped his spade, filled his hat
with gold and dashed off to Newmar. |
ket—the nearest town—and sold his |
find for $150. This hatful was worth |
| had always made things easy for Pris-
$2,000,
__ Not All Chinese “Coolies”
The original coolles were unskilled
laborers from China, India and the
Orient in general who first were im-
ported into western countries under
according to which they
a certain term of service, at the end
of which they were entitled to free
i
passage back te their native land, says |
Pathfinder Magazine. The name is be-
lieved to be derived from Chinese |
“koo,” meaning strength, and “lee,” to
bire. Hence # coolie was a hired la-
horer. During the decade between
1850 and 1860 wore than 40.000 Chil- |
nese coolies were imported into Cali-
fornia, It is Incorrect to refer to
Chinese Immigrants In general as
coolies,
Musical Note
Concerning the difference between a
sylophone und a marimba, Hurry
Forbes writes as follows: *“Ihe_ma-
_rimba is built in a similar way lo the
xylophone, except that the compass is
considerably lower. While having 2
very beautiful, mellow tone, the ma-
rimba is used only with soft beaters
and for slow or sustained numbers. It
is not suitable for the same class of
work as the xylophone, There is an
instrument now on the market which
can be used for both soft-hammwer and
bard-hammer playing, known as the
marimba-xylophone, having part of the
marimba compass and also the range
of the xylophone notes.,"—Washington
Star,
John Smith the World Over
The good old American name of
John Smith goes through some curious
transformations when it is used in oth-
er languages, relates the Albany Led
ger: For instance, John Smith in Lut-
in becomes Johannes Smithus; in Ital
ian he is known as Giovanni Smithi; in
French he becomes Jean Smeet; the
Russians call him Jonloff Smittonski;
the Poles know him as Ivan Sschirt-
welski; the Welsh as Jihon Sehmidd;
the Hollanders as Hans Schmidt: the
Greeks as Jon Smikton and the Span-
fards as Juan Smithus, while in Tur
key he is disguised as Yoe Seef.
Selenium’s Odd P oparty
Metallic selenium is a nonconduc-
tor of electricity when in the dark,
but on exposure to light it becomes
a conductor, This remarkable prop-
erty has led to the selenium cell, the
coating with a thin film of selenium a
conducting metal, such as copper.
When a selenium cell is connected In
the eircuit of a motor or in the firing
circuit of a cannon it acts as an open
switch as long as it remains in the
dark. When light falls upon it, it be
comes a conductor and permits current
to flow to the motor.
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By HELEN SY. BERNARD
© by McClure N Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
T= Wednesday afterncon Ladies’
Ald society of Midhill was stunned
| into silence. Eleven pairs of hitherto
Lisy bands were idle. Eleven flannel-
ette night gowns for the sali in-
mutes of the Orphans’ asylum were
forgotten, The twelfth member of
the “Aid,” Priscilla Pratt, was stand-
ing at the door, her hand on the knob,
her round face flushed, her eyes shin
ing. In her other hand, she held some
gaily colored, descriptive circulars, the
covers of which bore a picture of #
“iminutive steamer,
“Phink of it,” and her voice Was
husky with emotion. “Four months of
romance! Panama—Honolulu—Japan!
Cherry blossom time in Japan! India
—and the Taj Mahal! Egypt! The
Nile and the Pyramids! Italy and
Vesuvius—Venice! St. Marks and the
pigeons! Monte Carlo and the Rock
of Gibraltar! Mine . . . for . . .
four whole months I”
Prissy had read the literature of
The Golden Tour’ thoroughly.
Mrs. Carruthers, the minister's wife,
was the first to speak.
“\WWe are glad you had the money
ft you by your uncle, Prissy. You
have worked so hard taking care of
your folks. Getting along In years
and never having married.
Money . .
The newly made heiress started te
button on her coat, her eyes traveling
from face to face. She spoke slo..iy
and distinctly, “Yes, all that! Get-
ting along in years . . never
having married . and that is
why 1 am going to spend part of the
money Uncle Charlie left me . . .
going around the world! I'm going te
see things! Beauty, life! I'm going
to find that romance they talk about.”
Priscilla Pratt, the staid demure lit-
tle spinster of Midhill—going around
the world!
“A trip around the world!" and Mr.
Smiley clicked her teeth, “My, wy.
It you should change your mind, Pris-
sy, you might take a nice little trip
down to Pittsburgh. It's only 8 day's
ride from here, and there are lots of
theaters and pictures and big stores.”
“I am going around—the world!
You don’t understand, none of you! I
want romance! Something I have
never had.”
John Blake, Midhill’s carpenter, wax
a regular caller at Prissy’s little cot-
tage on Main street. He lived across
the apple orchard in the home he had
built many years before, when he had
first asked Prissy to marry him, John
sy. He had told her at that time, that
he would wait—always.
Prissy Lad the eirculars realy tu
show John when he came that ight.
His face was ruddy red from the co’d
and he held his hands out to the itove.
“Winter has set in now, Prissy and
you'd better get In another tm of
coal while Jeff has It. And I told
Watkins to leave you a few o his
hubbard squash when he passes ,. . .”
Prissy was sitting very straipt in
ner little rocking chair,
“I don't think . . I'll neec any
more coal, John . nor amy of
the squash, although his squash are
fine, 1 know.”
John looked up quickly.
drawled.
“You have been a good, true friend,
John . . and I have thought, per-
haps, some day I could repay you for
all your kindness.”
“It’s been nothing, Prissy.” Joh
was embarrassed. “You remenber
what I told you twenty years bark?
When you were ready to cone to ine
I'd ‘be waitin'? T ain't changed,
Prissy . .."
‘I know, John. Life has been ha
for me . . . and it would have
heen harder if it hadn't been for you.
I want you to kmow I'm grateful to
you. All my life I've dreamed of ro-
mance . . . and beauty. Life!"
John hitched his chair closer ane
leaned forward. He placed his big
hard hand over hers. His voice was
gentle: “Prissy, life is hard . . . if
you haven't anyone to care for . . .
or care for you, Hard . . . and
lonely. And I love you just the same.”
Prissy reached out for her sewing
that lay on the window seat. She
dropped it over the gaily colored cir-
culars in her lap and her hands were
folded on top of it; idle, just as elev-
en pairs of hands had lain idle that
afternoon on sewing, at the Aid so-
ciety. She met John's kind gray eyes,
so near. He smiled at her.
“I'll do my best to make you happy
Prissy. I'll try to bring all the beauty
I can into your life. All the romance
and the happiness . . . that comes
with love, Prissy dear. I'll love you
Pea Slways"
She smiled at John and his hano
tightened over hers.
“Do you suppose 1 could give you
all the romance and happiness you
have wanted all these years?” he
asked gently. “Do you, Prissy? We
might take a trip down to Pittsburgh
for two or three days, but Peters Is
anxious to get the plaster on his walls
so he can move in next month.”
“Life wouldn't mean much if you
don’t have some one to love you , . .”
“Would you like to honeymoon at
vittsburgh, Prissy?
“I have always wanted to go tn
Pittsburgh, John, since I was a mite
of a girl. Always!”
Prissy’s head was against John's
shoulder now. “And they say the
blast furnaces light the sky up beau-
tiful, nights . . ."
“No? be
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[Hnsandidsetts Held 4a
{pies have been developed in that state i
[¥ fruit growers and breeders.
Of those the Baldwin apple probably
is the most prominent today. This ap-
ple originated in Wilmington about the |
year 1740, so fur as can be determined |
from old records, and today constitutes |
the principal variety in New England
conmercial orchards. lubbardston is |
a variety which takes its name from |
the town in which it was originate? |
approximately 100 years ago.
Benoni, mother, fall orange, roxbury |
russet, and Tolman sweet are other |
Massachusetts bred varieties that are |
still prominent today.
The oldest planted fruit tree in
America 1s a pear tree between Dan- |
vers and Salem on the farm once
owned by Gov. John Endicott. There |
is some evidence to Indicate that the |
tree was hrought over from England |
in 1630 hy Governor Winthrop. !
Hand of Time Falls on
Historic Scottish Oak |
The old “Convenanters' oak” at Dal-
zell, Scotland, which has weathered
‘he blasts of storm ard time for cen-
mries, met with mishap recently. A
folent windstorm bereft the famous
auld alk tree of Dalyel” of much of
te ancient grandeur. The “Preacher's
ak.” as it is sometimes called, Is
‘mown to visitors and picnic parties
» the beautiful seat of Lord Hamil
m of Dalzell as an object of great
storic interest. In the troublous re-
gious times of long ago it is on rec
d that the ousted minister of Dalzell
1s sheltered and protected by the
rd of Dalzell as far as possible, and |
at he secretly visited the parish and
anched to his people from the great
k in front of Dalzell house. The
pat branches of the tree—each the
fe of an ordinary tree—grow from
¢ Op of the stem, which at four
fl 1 half feet from the ground is
tantr-one feet in circumference.
Good Reading
A wod book is like a symphony,
soe yussages will strike one as glor-
Iss, ¢ the firsi hearing, which a sec-
al reeals as commonplace, whereas
ts ovement, this chapter, whicn
sindsonly blurry, at the second hear-
If deelops into the most exquisite
asic)f the afternoon,
Theplain fact is, as every reades
tows that sometimes an interesting
‘uotgion” will elude one and never
t foud again. Perhaps it is Just as
wil. Jt is good to know, in small af-
fits. bat our searching is not always
that we cannot always be suc-
, Failure is just as inherent in
the:heme of things as success, The
gre book of common sense teaches
onaat—Charles E, Tracewell, in the
Waingion Star.
Pioneer Mince Pies
dition siates that mince ples
weloriginally oval in shape, to rep.
rest the cradle in which the Holy
Chiwas laid, and the medieval cooks
filighem with the choicest and cost-
llesf meats, all shredded and minced
toger, as emblems of the gifts of
thehree Wise Men. For centuries
th pied the place of honor on
theronial table, and in an eld Four
tees century manpscript we find the
folling recipe: “Take a pheasant,
a l2, a capon, and two pigeons, take
outs many bones as may be, and
chdhem up fine, add the livers and
| hes, two kidneys of sheep, salt, pep-
pepice, and vinegar. Put the meat | §
| int crust made craftily into the like- |
| meot a bird's body, close it up and
| babel.”
Law of Little Value
T long-established American cus
wmf permitting works of art over
opandred years old to come in free
of y customs duty has not been
etly nullified, but several countries
| heiegsened its value by censoring
\ of antiques. Italy has
siinnt rules and Spain has recently
asotely forbidden sales of such ob-
Jetsbroad, If works of art over one
bodd years old are not permitted
tdee thelr countries of origin, it is
onvalpge to have them duty-free
re. Exchange.
Topay-Turvy Woman
\ worn who lived in a topsy-turvy
wrld, W wrote, read, and spelt back-
wrds, | mentioned in the British
Mdical yurnal. She was admitted
tothe Don County mental hospital
sifering »m fits and suicidal tenden-
cls. It ¥ found that in writing she
reersed | words and when she drew
| pitures 8 drew them upside down.
Voen sheanted to read she turned
tk book ude down. When she was
aked to »Il a word she spelt it
bekwards,
nish Capital
Helsingfaig the Swedish name of
tle capital y of the Finnish repub-
Hc which talled in Finnish “Hei
shkl” Fini was a grand duchy
under the sian empire until the
World war, en it became an Inde-
padent repr, The city of Helsin-
ki is locate: the southern end of
the peninsuivhich constitutes the
republic of hnd, on the north side
of and acrcéthe Gulf of Finland
from Lening Russia.
| Criminals are halted, disabled but
5 | Nation’s Apple Nursery | not wounded by a knock-out pistol
: |e Massachusetts is the cradle of Amer | designed by a Paris, France, invent-
: (lem) horticulture, according to records or, It consists of a cone-shaped at-
; (In the division of horticulture at the | tachment, filled with a quantity of gjide floodlight,
Masachusetis State college. Studies | special powder, that can be fitted to
contucted at various times by the cel- | almost any ordinary revolver. When
lege fruit specialists indicate that “14 blank cartridge is fired the pow-
‘tota. of 142 named varieties of ap- | the cone explodes, causing an
air shock that knocks out the vic- of give
tim.
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
30 years In the Business
Spaide Work Shirts
Crown Overalls
Kaynee Suits
Kaynee Shirts
is an important person.
termine the banks standing in the community.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Personal Relations With
The Banking Public
From The American Bankers Association Journal.
“The chief executives of a bank may be able
and experienced, but to be successful a bank should
be staffed by the best possible personnel all through
the ranks"—
“For a hundred customers deal daily with a
subordinate officer or clerk to one who sees the
president.”
Every member of the working force of a bank
It is they who largely de-
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