TRY ARDUOUS TASK
Attempt to Scale Lofty Sum-
mit of Mount McKinley.
Washington.—Climbing Mount Me-
Kinley, Alaska, the loftiest peak in
North America, Is a slow job. Four
men set out from the headquarters
of the Mount McKinley national park
early in April in an effort to reach
the 20,800-foot summit of the south
peak of the mountain, a feat that |
has been accomplished only once—
in 1913. If the present climbers find |
the task as arduous as the 1913 party |
did, they will not reach their goo’ |
until late May or early June. i
“Physical form and its far north |
latitude are the two major factors |
that rank Mount McKinley among the
most difficult of the earth's moun-
tains to scale” says a bulletin from |
the National Geographic society. “The |
mountain's huge bulk rises abruptly |
above plateaus only 3,000 feet in al-
titude on the north and west sides, |
sc that the crest is more than 17,000
feet above the base. All of the other
mountain giants of the world rise
from high plateaus, so that the por- |
tion to be climbed from a base camp
is much higher in the case of Me- |
Kinley.
Difficult Climbing.
“The snow line on such peaks as |
Mount Everest and Kinchinjunga in |
the Himalayas, and Aconcagua and |
Chimborazo in the Andes Is very |
high; but because of its near-polar
position, Mount McKinley's upper two-
thirds is sheathed in snow and ice
the year round. Above six or seven |
thousand feet climbers must trudge |
through snow or laboriously cut foot- |
holds in steep ice slopes. ‘The con- |
trast between mountain climbing in
Alaska and the Tropics is so great
that one mountaineer who made an |
unsuccessful attempt on Mount Me- |
Kinley and later scaled a 20,000-foot
peak in the Andes, declared that the
latter feat required less exertion than
reaching the 4,500-foot level on Mount
McKinley.
“piercing the moist skies of Alaska
(0 such an extreme height, Mount Mc-
Kinley catches tremendous quantities
of snow. As a result it gives rise
to numerous glaciers which feed the
Susitna river and some of the head-
waters of the Kuskoquim. The larg-
est of the glaciers, Muldrow, Is 35
miles long, more than twice the |
length of the most extensive glacier |
in the Alps. It is up the face of Mul- |
drow glacier that the only feasible |
route to the summit of Mount Mec-
Kinley has been found.
“This huge mountain of centra. |
Alaska was a famous landmark to |
the Indians, It was known to them |
as ‘Denali, which has been interpre- |
ted both as ‘Most High' and ‘Home of
the Sun.’ The Indians reverenced
Denali as the natives near Mount
Everest reverence thai great peak.
Apex Reached Only Once. i
“Little was known of Mount Me
Kinley by the outside world until
1898 - when the United States geo-
logical survey begun a series of ex- |
plorations following the gold rush to |
the Klondike, Efforts to climb the |
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mountain from the south side were |
made at intervals from 1903 to 1910,
all of them unsuccessful. The suc- |
cessful climb to the south peak, high- |
est point on Mount McKinley, was
made by Hudson Stuck, Episcopal |
archdeacon of the Yukon, and three |
companions, on June 7, 1913, This |
point has never been reached since, |
but in 1919 a party of four prospectors |
climbed to the slightly lower north |
peak.
“Mount McKinley lies 348 miles |
sorth of Seward on the coast, and
128 miles southeast ot Fairbanks,
Alaska’s most important inland town.
The mountain is surrounded by the |
Mount. McKinley national park, 2,645
square miles in extent, which was |
created by congress in 1917 and en- |
larged in 1922. The park extends for
100° miles astride the Alaska range,
and includes numerous peaks and |
gaclers, forests, meadows, streams, |
waterfalls, and lakes. The reserva- |
tion abounds with big game, includ-
ing moose, caribou, big-horn mountain |
sheep, and brown bears. On the hills |
and mountain slopes is & multitude |
of birds. The fish that throng the |
park ‘streams in summer, migrate to |
large rivers before winter, for the |
small streams freeze almost solid. Ice |
disappears about mid-April, and dur- |
ing - the height of the summer the |
region is bathed In sunlight for 18 |
hours or more each day. |
“The federal-owned Alaska railway |
skirts the east end of the park. From
McKinley. Park station a graveled |
automobile highway penetrates into
the park for 40 miles, This road is
to he extended 35 miles during 1932. |
Frem the end of the highway a horse- |
back trail leads to the foot of Mul- |
drow glacier,”
on Lore of the Theater
Delaware, Ohio.—Out of the whole
sphere of current events, Ohio Wes
leyan university students ure most |
familiar With affairs in the theaters, |
an examination given here revealed
The class made & 79 per cent aver |
age in identifying actors and actresses, |
Several of them, however, believed |
Mare Connelly, author of “Green Pas. |
tures,” was a baseball player. |
Half the students. did not know whe |
was vice president of the United |
States, Other replies: Tom Mooney, |
a Democratic leader; Huey Long, "|
leader of Chinese armies; Francis |
Quimet, French premier,
| telry and family
| standing, when ignorance,
| himself, before
Cheesecake’s Place in
History Beyond Cavil
Among the Greeks, the serving of
cheesecake was a ritual. One type
was consecrated to Diana, “brought |
to the places where the three roads
| Into the temples of the goddess, and |
meet, on the day when the moon is |
overtaken in its setting by the rising
of the sun.” And we are assured (hat
this ceremony brought unfailing pleas- |
ure to the goddess. Another type was
the invariable gift from the bride
groom to the bride. This cake was
roasted on the coals, and the friends
of the bridegroom were invited to ear
tt, served with honey.
These ancient delicacies were the
forerunner of the cheesecake as it is
found today in Germany, England,
France, Austria, and every civilized
country in the world They are
known abundantly in Germany in large |
| round luscious form, made from the
German schmierkase. These are per- |
haps the most glorious manifestation
of cheesecake on the continent. This
| cake recipe in many an American hos-
kitchen is as care-
fully guarded as the family plate and
sscutcheon.
Looking Far Into the
Future of Human Race
We who live today will be regarded
by our descendants of a million years
hence as creatures who groped about
in the darkness before dawn, in the
misty gloom of the morning of under-
superstition
and animal instinct combated attempts
to understand nature's truths.
In a number of years we shall have
che new 200-inch telescope. This tele-
into the depths of space than human
investigations have penetrated. A ce
lestial domain thirty times the volume
| scope will carry us three times farther
of what we know today will be opened |
to us.
Supplemented by the work of own
mathematicians, the observations that
will be made will advance our knowl-
edge of cosmic geography more than
Columbus advanced our knowledge of
terrestrial geography by his discovery
of America in 1492 —Hiram Percy
Maxim in the Scientific American.
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Currency Standard
The Kansas City convention of July
4, 1900, which nominated william Jen-
taining what was labeled “the silver
declaration.”
Thereafter Democratic party platforms
were silent on the issue, but in 1004
LIGHTS ) R38 §
of NEW YORK |
John Golden, in years gone by, made |
many courageous efforts to do his own i
shaving. Had he put a notch in the
handle of the razor to mark every
time he cut himself, it would have re- |
sembled the butt of a western bad |
man's gun, Mr. Golden had & face |
which nicked easily. For years after
that he was a patron of one shop.
Finally, that barber went out of busi-
ness. On the closing day, Mr. Golden
sald to him: |
“Isn't there an agency where you
get these men of yours? Could I ge |
there and hire a barber?” :
The man said he could and gave
him the address. Mr. Golden proceed- |
ed to the place mentioned and there i
found some three dozen men, fair and |
dark, short and tall.
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“Are all you fellows barbers?’ he |
said. “All right. Give me your at-
tention, I want,” said Mr. Golden in i
the voice he uses to address a cast at
rehearsals, “a barber, 1 want a bar-
ber who will shave me as I tell him
to, quietly and efficiently, removing |
the beard while permitting the epider- |
mis to remain. I want a man who use |
a razor in one hand without having |
to hold a block of alum in the other; |
a man who hates the sight of blood |
Who wants the job?” 1
“I'l take that job,” said a little vo). i
anteer, stepping from the ranks.
“You are hired,” said Mr. Golder. |
“Bring your props.”
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Together they repaired to John |
Golden's office. The barber shaved
him, with never a nick. Mr. Golden
was delighted but felt there was
something lacking.
“we should have a barber chair,’ |
he said. !
The barber sald that he would geu
4 chair. He knew where a very fine
chair could be purchased gecond-hand.
It could be obtained at small cost.
“Splendid,” said John Golden. “Buy |
she chair and buy all those little bot- |
tles you barbers use. We may as
well do this this right.” i
So the bottles were purchased, ano
| the chalr was purchased, and they |
It called for the imme-
| diate free coinage of silver at 16 to 1
the Republican convention declared |
| that the gold standard must be upheld
| and cou!d not safely be trusted to
| Democrats. Again, in 1908, the Re-
publican platform contained a plank |
insisting that “every dollar must be
bused upon and as good as gold.”
Since then no reference.hus been made. |
in either party platform, the gold
standard being assumed as a matter |
| of course.~Washington Star.
Australia Is Ancient
A discovery made by gold prospec-
tors recently affords further proof of
Australia’s great age. After boring
| through 200 feet of basalt they struck
| an old river bed, and brought up wa-
ter-polished stones which, according to
experts, had not been exposed to sun- had a secretary who bellev od
light for over a million years. And
there are geological formations in the
Island continent which are estimated |
to be at least 20,000,000 years old.
Australia, too, has preserved living |
links with its remote past. Some of
ite animals and plants are definitely |
prehistoric species, such as have sur-
vived nowhere else. The duck-billed
platypus, for instance, is the oldest ex-
isting type of mammal,
Secret Inks Easy to Make
Invisible ink has been used for many
centuries by sples and others, who
want to keep their letters secret. A
list of invisible inks is given by Prac-
tical Mechanics Magazine. The sub-
stance is dissolved in water which is
{hen used for writing. Writing made
trom silver nitrate ink will appear |
when exposed to sunlight;
cobalt |
chloride ink will show up when heat, |
as a fiatiron, is applied; lead acetate
ink is developed by hydrogen sulphide; |
starch (on linen) Ink is developed by |
lodine fumes, and .
dilute copper. sul | est horse, Silon B.
plate ink appears In writing when
coming in contact with strong am-
monia fumes.
Cannel Coal
One of the peculiar features of can-
ael coal is the resemblance of the
fiame to that of an ordinary cance.
The name was derived from this ap-
pearance, it is sald. This coal is rich
in hydro carbons and is often used to
enrich illuminating gas. ‘The coal is
is pure white and perfectly formed.
so inflammable that little effort is nec- |
essary to ignite it. One of the most
frequent uses at the present time is
for open fireplaces. In olden days it
was used in the horse-drawn fire en-
gines of Boston. Cannel coal has low
heating power and burns with a smoky
flame, It breaks with a smooth frac |
ture.
That's Not News
Archeologists have discovered there |
| were tax dodgers 2,000 years ago. And
some of the newspaper boys, forgetting
the Sunday school lessons of their
childhood, have featured the announce-
ment as though it were news. The
most hated men of the early Roman
empire were the publicans, the tax
gatherers. Matthew speaks of them
in his Gospel: “Publicans and sin-
pers.” Matthew was a tax collector
he was converted,
hence his knowledge.—Detroit News.
were installed in the room off Mr. |
pings Bryan, adopted a platform con- | Golden's office—the room where the |
shower bath is—and there they stand
until this day.
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On one occasion Mr. Golden was
sowing a friend his outfit. He was |
about to be shaved and all was in |
readiness. The friend congratulated |
him.
“You have the best one-man bharbe.
shop 1 have ever seen,” he sald. “It
seems to be absolutely complete, ex-
cept for one thing. You should have
a pole.” The. litte. barber spoke
quietly from his lather mixing.
“jt Is complete, sir,” he said.
was born in Warsaw. I am the Pole.”
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A man of considerable wealth and
importance met a young fellow and
was so impressed by him that he de-
cided he would try him out on scme
business. Instead of telephoning or |
asking the young fellow to call on
him, the man stopped In at his office.
But in the outer room the young chap |
in em- |
phasizing his importance. She did
not recognize the visitor's name and, |
when he asked that her employer be i
told he was there, said firm:y: |
“What did you want to see him for? |
“You are right,” said the visitor. |
“What did I want to see him for? |
And he walked out, closing the door |
behind him.
ee s |
Jimmy Walker, Gene Tunney, George
Olvaney, Emil Fuchs and Sam Breadon i
are among those born in New York's |
Greenwich village. They all appear |
to have got a good start and to have i
done pretty. well. A mayor, & heavy- |
weight champion, a political leader |
and judge, and two owners of major |
league baseball clubs—that's a fair |
output for one neighborhood. |
(©, 1932, Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service,
New York Man Claims
World's Largest Horse
waterloo, N. Y.—C. H. Van Wickle i
claims ownership of the world's larg- |
i
Silon B Is twelve years old ano :
stands 21 hands high. His ears are |
nine feet from the ground. The horse |
He measures 8 feet and 10 inches
around his girth and weighs 2,960
pounds, He was foaled in Lamay,
France, and according to his owner,
fs “just getting his growth.”
Old Ohio Grist Mill
Dodges Depressions
warren, Ohio. — Many depres-
sions have rolled past the old wa-
ter mill at Phalanx, Ohio, five
miles west of here, but, despite its
age, it continues to grind out
flour,
The mill, built in 1815, has been
remodeled several times. It was
constructed by Eli Barnum, one
of the Connecticut settlers and a
relative of P. T. Barnum of cir-
cus fame,
Had it gone to steam, gasoline,
or electricity, say the owners, it
would have gone out of business
long &go.
It is operated by a firm known
as F. A, and A. G. Rood. These
men have been dead many years
They were cousins, and the prop-
erty now is in the hands of three
SONS,
| have brought to light
| ries to show moderns they are
| Only they used twigs, taken from liv |
| tinies of ancient Egypt, has now been
| must have been an extraordinarily pow- |
| i. e, the King.” This is the first |
| the moisture in the atmosphere to |
| ounces, and a yedr prior the same
| Based on the former weight, 1,000,000
| notes would weigh 2,064 pounds 3 7-9
' in Great Britain can
These archeologists, who are always |
digging up
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modern after all.
Not only did some of
use the installment plan
things, but in Babylonia some
years ago a poor
a wife with five shekels down and the
halance in easy payments, !
Prof. Edward Chiera of the Univer-
for buying |
3.500
TOTAL ECLIPSE
An arrow-straight, black
oko Wer | A ee 100. alley
some new sto- wide will come down from the
not se | North Pole to cross New England
at 3:30 P. M. August 31, says the
the ancients Associated Press.
For one minute and thirty sec-
onds it will last, provided the weath-
man could acquire | F is clear.
Soviet Russia is sending an
Even
official expedition. No appropriation.
has been made to permit the United"
States Naval Observatory to de ifs.
own home eclipse,
Unofficially the United States will:
send many private observatories,
some of them in planes.
This eclipse begins west of the-
North Pole early August 31 and
sweeps almost straight southward.
Its course is down Hudson Bay, be-
tween Quebec and Montreal.
OF SUN
WILL OCCUR AUGUST 31
sity of Chicago told about it at a con-
ference of the American Oriental so-
clety. The story, he said, was writ-
ten in clay tablets found at the site
of the ancient Iraq city of Nuzl
Neither is there anything new in the |
idea of brushing one’s teeth. The an-
cient Indo-Europeans some 1,700 years
before Christ made a rite of this hy-
gienic act, Dr. George Vv. Bobrinskoy, |
also of the University of Chicago, sald.
‘ng trees, instead of toothbrushes.
And these modern young newspaper
reporters who tear their hair when
their editors edit their “copy” may find |
solace in the fact the ancient Egyp-
tians did the same thing, using chisels
on the hieroglyphics In place of pen-
ells. This was brought out by Prof.
John A. Wilson of the institute.
Great Egyptian Queen
Has Unique Monument
A woman who once ruled a mighty |
empire, exercising sway over the des-
revealed as the owner of the Fourth |
pyramid at Giza, This woman ruler
erful queen, for she bears the titles |
of King of Upper and Lower Egypt,” |
“Mother of the King of Upper and |
Lower Egypt,” “Daughter of the God, |
known instance of a queen's pyramid |
standing separately from that of her
royal husband—it is built upon a sol- |
itary rock, shaped to form its core— |
HE SEVERAL SCHEMES to relieve the
present business situation doubtless will
help
But, after three years, it looks us if we shall
have to depend on the slow and deliberate op-
eration of economic forces for permanent re-
covery.
There is no “Royal Road” to prosperity.
coo roe i
Tue FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
and no other queen of the old king-
dom has been found with the title |
“King of Upper and Lower Egypt."
The eastern and northern sides of the |
pyramid are cut in regular steps, and i
the tomb measures at its base about
150 feet on each side. In the south- |
east face a large chamber was cut In |
the rock, and the entrance to it has | 9
jambs of single blocks of granite | &
nearly 10 feet high. Ui
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Paper Currency i
The weight of paper money prob- |
ably varies as much as 5 per cent, due |
to several factors. The blank paper |
itself varies slightly in thickness and |
weight.
jk than notes printed from worn |
plates, The weight of notes Is also [USHh
affected by the amount of moisture T__
therein, which varies, depending on |
which they have been subjected for a |
while. For example, in November, |
1930, 1,000 12-subject sheets (12,000 |
notes) were weighed, which were |
found to weigh 24 pounds 12 1-3
quantity was weighed, which tipped
the scales at 24 pounds 6 ounces.
ounces, and based on the latter weight |
1,000,000 notes would weigh 2,031
pounds 4 ounces.
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Queen's Fondness for Dogs
Not many persons realize how much
the dog world owes to Queen Victoria,
says the Vancouver Province. Always
a lover of dogs, she and the Prince
| Consort were foremost in encouraging |
pedigree dog breeding in Great Brit-
ain. It was she who first recognized
the fine qualities of the collie in her
Scottish home and introduced the
breed into England, where it rapidly |
became a favorite and now holds a |
place second to none In the hearts of |
dog lovers, It was through her influ- | §
ence that dog shows became a thing
of everyday occurrence, and the devel- |}
opment of the dog breeding Industry |
be traced to her
pleasure in having first-rate pedigreed
specimens about her.
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Church Ruins Preserved
During the Middle ages the rich |
| purghers of Visby built no fewer than |
seventeen churches. Eleven of these |
have been preserved as ruins, some |
of them picturesquely beautiful or im-
pressive, and nearly all fine speci-
mens. of architecture. St. Catherine's |
is widely known and admired for its |
beautiful columns and arches. The |
mightiest ruin is that of St. Nicholas,
the church of the Dominicans. The
Holy Ghost church, of octagon form
and two-storied, is entirely original in
its conception, and of special interest
are also the twin churches of St. Hans
and St. Per as well as the “sister
churches” of St. Drotten and St. Law-
rence.
Earthquake Studies
Having more reason than zoy other
country to study earthquakes, Japan's
fnvestigations are said to have result-
ed in certain practical conclusions, one
being that the earth's crust bulges up-
ward siightly several times on differ-
ent days before a big quake comes.
Because of this, Japanese seismolo-
gists have perfected a new type of
clinometer, which gauges changes in
surface and subsurface levels as slight
as one thirty-second of an inch in a
mile. By means of the information
obtained with this instrument, it is
thought possible to predict earth-
quakes and prepare for them, at least
a few days in advance.
Notes printed from new =
plates (deeply engraved) contain more | 2
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for Memorial Day!
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years In the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
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at Fauble’s!
White Flannel Trousers - $1.00 up |
Sleeveless Sweaters - - 4.00 up I
Linen Knickers - - - 2.50 i
White Duck Trousers - 1.00 up I
Broad-cloth§Shirts - - B65 cts il
Everything that man or boy wears you |
will find at Fauble’s, to please you. |
Suits—the Fauble kind—as low as $15.00 |
and as good as the $25.00 kind in other
stores.
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This means Dollars to you, at a time when I
a Dollar saved is an important matter. |
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