- a Suis THE OERTAE REPORTER. THURSDAY, JUNE s, 1919. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Paragraphs of News Taken from the Files of the Reporter of 1884. October 15, 1884. Every house in Centre Hall is taken up and more would be occupied if there were houses. Lots are cheap, labor is low, and houses in demand—just the thing wanted for a speculator of this kind. Now is the time to build. Dr. Alexander and wife made a nar- row escape on Tuesday afternoon, near Lemont, as they were driving on the pike they were precipated over a bank some 15 feet, among rocks. The cause of the accident was a dangerous fll along the railroad which is carelessly exposed to mislead one in mistaking it for the regular road. The horse was badly bruised and a new top buggy smashed by the fall. On Monday morning the large stable in the rear of Wolf's shops on Church street, was destroyed by fire. The ex- ertions of the citizens were turned to saving the Lutheran church jby parties who mounted the roof, The southern cornice of the roof had caught, and the flames soon spread to the interior of the church, and the large fine edifice was wrapped in flames in a few minutes, Most of the church fixtures were saved. There is an actual insurance of $3660 on the church. It will be immediately re- built. In the meantime the congrega- tion will hold its services in the Evan- gelical church: The young ladies of this vicinity held a leap year party at the Centre Hall ho- tel on Thursday night. They went around and picked up their fellows just as though it was the best of fun, and hustled them off to the place where the fun was to come off, and did come off. A — AP AP PAA, REBERSBURG. James Harbach and Sterl Miller, who are employed at Cresson, were home for a few days. Mr. Harbach owns a new Ford car. Edwin Barner and wife, of Milton, motored here on Sunday and visited at the Scott Stover home, Prof. Elmer Bierly is shaking hands with friends in town. He will spend his summer vacation here. One day last week the stork visited the home of Arthur Cummings-and left a baby boy—No. 4. Hon, Willis Bierly of Williamsport is spending his two weeks’ vacation at this place, visiting the old home, now owned by William Frank, Dr. Henry Krumrine and family mo. tored from Newberry on Saturday and spent the night with his brother Sidney. The telephone poles along the State road leading through this valley were whitewashed during the past week, Baby No. 1 arrived at the home of Orvis Swartz, on Sunday. Mrs. Samuel Bierly is visiting her two brothers at Hanover. Mrs. Thomas Walker has the painters employed at painting her dwelling house. Lester Minnich has his concrete mixer in operation daily. The machine surely is a labor saver, —————— A —————— Had First Call on Dance, Down at Quantico one night recent ly there was a dance for the men of a certain company, who were to leave for France the next morning. Of course, other marines than those about to go were on the floor. There was one man who was a mighty good dancer, and all the girls liked to dance with him, There was a very popular girl there, too. She had her dance program full, There wasn't a dance left. A marine eame up. “May I dance with you? he asked. The young woman sald she was sor- ry, but her program was full. “I am so sorry,” she sald. “1 am sorry, too,” replied the young man. “I just came Into the hall, and I did want one dance before I leave for France.” He started to tarn away. The soldier who had the dance grab. bed him by the shoulder, “You thke my dance,” he sald, Evidently Had Wrong Qirl, Bouncer was . distinetly irritated when he bumped into somebody along the street, until he found that it was an old acquaintance of his, “Ha] Just the fellow I want to see,” he remarked. “I wanted to ask you whether you ever hear anythirg of Borem nowadays. Did he marry that girl he was so keen on?" “No, I don't think so. In fact, Ive heard that he's rather fond of going to her house and putting the gramophone on most of the evening, and every time his back 1s turned to put a fresh rec- ord on, Miss Gladeye moves the hands of the clock on anywhere from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour” ——————— Sun Lifts Much Water From Lake. Evaporation of water from Gatun lake, canal zone, reached a new high record during the month of March, year, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Calculations show that the sun withdrew 3,248,000,000 cubic feet of water from the body, the equivalent of 1,213 cuble feet a second for the period of 31 days. This was one cuble Soo a thceond in excess of the volume wal passing through " stocks of the Gatun ore nf tion, which, during the same month, produced 4,681,000 kilowatt hours of en- ergy. This in turn shows the loss of ww ER ee | | —— i A A WI ea ae ke POINTS OUT WRONG NOTIONS Harvard Professor Corrects Imprés. sions of the Peoples of Historic Lands of the East. “To speak of the pure old Egyptian type 18 as Incorrect as to assert that the old type of the Pharaohs 8 ex. tinet today,” sald Prof. W. Max Mul. ler of Harvard in an address on “The Origin of the Ancient Egyptians” in the University of Pennsylvania Arch- eologienl museum. “The admixture of negro blood, due to Intermarringe with slaves, was as popular in Bible times as now." The speaker corrected many popular misconceptions about the historie lands, “You apply the term Hamitle to all blacks” he continued, * ‘Sons of Ham' to the discriminating scholar of African conditions means white people, not black, African residents do not begin to eall n man black un- til he Is chocolate or copper eolored, “The degrees range all the way down to dull conl bianck. Al shades lighter than copper, such as the tan of the American mulatto, are called white, The yellow girl is the compli- mentary way to address or to paint a lady over on the Nlle, “The handsomest people world are the Abyssinians, slender, high-browed, copper<hued-—these peo ple who have reduced stealing to a sol ence and begging to a fine art, The rolor of the healthy man is a black and greenish bronze hue, of a shade often seen In statues, but genecally belicved not to be found in real life. “These men, by the way, have the must luxuriant hair In the world, and yet they never ean grow more than the scantiest, serawniest beards” in the MOVE FAMOUS CHESS GAME Club Where Leading French Players Have Gathered Since 1681 Is Now in New Quarters. The Cafe de ln Regence no longer shelters the chess pluyers whose tem. ple It has been since 1854. The play- ers now make their headquarters at the Cafe de 'Universe, fucing the The- ater Francaise, says New York Herald, The Cafe de da Regence has been in its present site in Rue Saint Hon ore since the curly years of the second empire, Eefore that It was at the angle of the Paluls Royal square, where the Hotel du Louvre now is, and in that Joeality It operated from 10851 until it was expropriated in 1854. In the eighteenth century the Cgfe de In Regence was frequented hy the encyclopedists; Diderot, Grimm, Map montel, even Voltaire and later Robes. plerre were habitues of the place, It ds sald that Napoleon gave a chess party in the old eafe. The cafe charged by the hours for the use of its chessbonrds and an extra charge was made at the night games to pay for the two candles which each pair of players used. La Bourdonnals, fa mous chessmaster of the Restoration, played there and afte him Alfred de Musset, Salnt-Amand, Newenthal, de Bornier and other celebrities of ltera ture and chess, Charnt of Old San Antonio, The charm of an old city lisse chiefly around the historie spots and bulldings tn which the romance of its early his tory is centered, Rarely do we enter a city that ean boast of snclent edi- fices and haloed ground the history of which is known the country over, Kap or still Is the community whose qaint bulldinga, picturesque scenes and roe mantic atmosphere are its main ate tractions, luring thopsands to its gates erch year. Such, however, is the boast of San Antonio, Tex., one of the guaint- est and most interesting cities in the United Sintes, says Architecture, No. where else may you find a greater ap- peal to the romantic and the ple- turesque and have apch hospitable welcome extended you: nowhere will you find such a blending of the anolent with the modern as In this delightful city of our own Southwest, . a Vast Sum Eiuded Morgan, Tn the mom™glne behind 5 Cuban city, we are told, is ll buried a great ~- amount of treasure, hig eq there BOO years ago, when news came of a ju pending attack by Sir Henry More the pirate honored by an English king for his onslaughts upon the Spaniards, Most of the defenders were killed, and the spolls were never found. Morgan was outwitted agnin at Panama, and at the bottom of the harbor there los today, some have estimated, $80,000, 000 worth of gold and silver, When he attacked Panama the treas- are wae hidden under the plankings of the ships at the wharves, The elty was captured before the vessels eould make thelr escape, but a long search falled to unearth the spofls, go all the eraft were sunk In revenge by the pirate and his men. — Source of Loyalty, There 1s a loyalty which springs From fection that we bear to our na- tive soll, wR * ey Fanaticism of Spaniards on lsia de Mujeres Is Regretted by Archeologists. Fortified by grim rocks from the wind-driven waves of the Yucatan channel lies the Isla de Mujeres——Isle of Women. The Spaniards on a voy- nge In search of gold In the sixteenth century were tossed up on this Island, where they found no gold, but had an interesting time. When they start- ed on an exploring tour of the island they eame upon a stone temple, Lured by the fumes of incense, they entered nnd saw many idols representing god- desses, elothed In cotton garments, Officiating at the ceremonies were women dressed In bright cottons and decked out with feathers and orna- ments of precious metals, The Spaniards, excited by this scene of Idol worship, rushed In, smashed the idols, triumphantly placed an im- nge of the virgin on the aliar and held mass before the eves of the as tonished priestesses and native wor- shipers, Archeologists have never censed to regret the fervor of the Spaniards, who thus unheedingly de stroyed unique treasures of Mayan civilization, The Spaniards named the place Isla de Mujeres for future reference and salled away, The frightened Mayans deserted thelr shrine, For years the Isla de Mujeres lay still and forsaken. Gradually it awakened, A fishing vil- Inge grew up near the anclent altars and the Yueatans hunt the hawk billed turtle where once Indian mald- ens swung the censers and chanted thelr prayers. ART OF WALKING REVIVED That More People Take Beneficial Ex- ercise ls an Indirect Result of Great War, he human race was forgetting the Vanity had had some. thing to do with Hand the shoemak- ers, who eatered to vanity, For the truth was, people were paying more aitention to the style of the shoe than to the comfort of the foot, Then ening the war, Whatever cleo they to do, wre ealled upon fo welk, In walk have shoes that fit— shoes that do not « ramp the fool, shoes low heels, Ro the nrimies of the world provided their sol. ¢ with i. idiers hinve ing, Ge must with flat soles nn 4 8 which they eould found the walk. Ties shoes In and the soldier Ba : easy, Secing these milllons of soldiers with good feet properly shod and find. ¥ could will for lope dis without tiring, the rest of the rad to mtiopt sens ees, in the fulness of time nll alk. Sand when fd that we had pig the . «8 of locometton that has #% yet been Invented, Waiking ia the best has been devise Vr most pataral, ing that th te . y Cine iran tn ow we shall fis Years aver ul proce s. } in a most exercize that use: It Is the walking anil mal: the jwaipsg ¢ walking involves very nerve snd muscle of ake Lody ind Insures health, Men and women who walk do not saffer from any kind of discdse. Tut the first principle of walking is a proper shoe for the foot. ~alithrest Ameriean, a Buliding the Pyramida In looking at pletures of the pyra- mids and the Sphinx everyone has won derad how great mente auld Be Hut ji an age when there vas no sueh thing us § oan derrick. Dhiscussicn upon point has sun through the centuries, An English engineer has hit upon whit appears to be the true explana. tion, {is apinions are supported by the evidence of aiicisil inscriptions on tombe and temples, his engigeor states that In bullding a pyramid the Egyptians constructed an inclined roadway to the level of which the work had Fase hod, Ag the pyramid grow taller the ane gle of the vond vonmManily graw sleeper and its length greater. Op this pond: way passed all the material required in building the pyramid, hauled by #luyes and pack animals, a 8pecies of Whipposrwill, Qhe cry of the whippooarwill ja its song and only the male utters it, The female Is lent. When It Ix singing, Just as likely as not the whippoorwill is sitting on the ground, although It sings from the trectops at times, It doesn't ging afier midnight, From dark until about 10 o'viock Is its favor. ite time for singing—or yellng, In the South there is a kindred bird, some what larger than the Nerthern whip. poorwill, which 1s sometimes called “chuck-will's-widow,” because that Is what some feiks assert It says, And in ¥nginnd there Is n bird very similar to the whippoorwill known as the “goat-sucker,” heggnse It Is supposed to obtain its food frm the milk of goats~~Exchange, - - am Mer y Came True. A story is told to the effect that 8i- mon Bolivar, when he was a child of seven, had for a playmate in Bpain a boy of about his own age pamed Fer dinand, the future Spanish king, One day, while engaged In a game of bate those On sh Lae Sn —~ TT ERI. 3 BN ee tics ee % ; " “ * % SOT AEE Hh 2 i ” RR cn a WR, | a," A IEE ep a Eg : " n : . J . 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