Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. Ne entre 4) BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1006. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, P iit, 1 Current Topics. 4 THE NEW WEST POINT. A STRENUOUS LIFE PROVIDED FOR THE YOUNG CADETS AND FUTURE OFFICERS. fim 1s to Make Men Quick and Self- Reliant—-Extensive Additions Being Made to Institution—Social Life a Feature The United States Military Academy mt West Point has long enjoyed an in- ternational reputation as the finest rtraining institution in the world, and this prestige will be considerably en- hanced upon the completion of the Jarge scheme of improvements now ander way and upon which Congress will expend more than seven million GUARD WEST POINT. dollars ere they are fully completed in the year 1912. Already the creation of the “new West Point" has pro- gressed far enough to prove how beae- ficial will be the undertaking. While the primary purpose of Uncle Bam's unique Institution of the banks of the Hudson River is, gf course, to educate young men for jm ous as officers of the United Sta Army, the superiority which has Woh for «it world-wide fame is due to the mare ous efficiency of the mental and physi eal training without regard to the use to which the knowledge is te be put It is In the interest of this ambition to MOUNI' AT 100 is graduate perfect specimens of Ameri- | ean manhood that the costly imp¥ove- ments are being carried forward, Nearly Trebles Present Capacity. For one thing the new bulldifizs will provide accommodations for 1,200 a dets, instesd of for 400 as at present, and these new strictures wil alse n= clude a new gymnasium, riding ball, academic building, cadet hegdquarters, etc, as well as a handsome hotel for | The social side of life at West Point | has unquestionably proven one of the | greatest attractions of this mique school, admission to which is so eager- ly sought by young men in all parts of the country. Ordinarily the West | Pointer has only half an hour dally,— | the interval following supper---that he | can call his own, On Saturday after noon however, the lads are “free” from | two o'clock until 6.30 o'clock, the sup per hour, and on Wednesdays there Is simitar freedom from 4 o'clock In the lafternoon until 6.30 o'clock. At such | | times the famous Flirtation Walk, | where so many romances have had | their beginning Is a mecca for a con-| siderable portion of the young men. On Saturday evenings from 10.30 o'clock there is dancing. i When They Camp Out. In the eyes of most of the cadets the happiest portion of the year at West Point is the summer interval when the whole battalion goes into cafup in the wooded area on the north side of the Academy grounds, remaining under canvas from June until September During this season visitors are espec- fally numerous, and the social life -at the Point is seen at its best, he cadets at West Point are In very {| truth picked men, for not only is ad- | mission gained by passing a very | severe entrance examination, but there are examinations scattered all | through the four year course and if a cadet fails to come up to the mark at any of these periodical tests he is al- most certain to be dropped from the rolls. Indeed, so severe is this weed- ing-out process that only about half of the young men who enter West Polnt succeed in graduating. { one. A Democratic Institution. | One phase of conditions at West | {Point which is calculated to make every American proud of the institu is the splendid democracy which | prevails. Special privileges un | known at the Point, The boy whose | father are is a multi-millionaire wears the | {same grade of clothing, sleeps in the | | same kind of a bed and eats food that | {8 precisely on a par with that fur nished to the cadet who started in life as a bootblack. Each student at the Military Academy receives from Un cle Sam the sum of five hundred dol lars a year and out of this he must | purchase all his necessities at the Fugtore.” If he spends more than the | allowance such excess is a debt which ts duly charged against him and must be liquidated from his future pay. pert Pol Players « Sweordsmen. the accommodation of the numerous visitors, including many members of the fair sex, who come to the Point for the various soclal functions which are seattered through the school year. The new West Point will place some added comforts within ren of the endets in gray but it will result in no Sessening of the strenuous activity of their every day life. The West Point. er Is roused at six o'clock every morn. ing, alter eight hours sleep, He must Be on the jump from the moment he | § | He Broke up the Meeling. A temperance lecturer, speaking in Keene, N. H., reminded his hearers of the story of Dives and Lazarus. He pointed out how, when Dives was in Hades, he did not ask for beer or wine 8.30 to] | for the Duchess in picturesque Galway sh | m | dland and | or whisky, but for one drop of water PALACE FIT FOR TITANIA. MOST DEAUTIFUL PALACE IN ENGLAND RESIDENCE OF AMERICAN WOMAN. 1s Now Looking for an Irish Castle. Canada Wants a Local Premier— Native American Might Hold Such a Position. The Duchess of Roxburghe, nee Goe- let of New York, after many fruitiess attempts to find a suitable residence in | Ireland, has intrusted the matter to Lord Barrymore, who married, as his second wife, the widow of Arthur Post of New York, and thereby, quite natu. rally, greatly improved his financial position. That is one reason he i8 par- | complain that invitations to the Italian | floods, leaving over the prone giauts| tial to American women and willing to | court under the present king, VICIOr jan julind sea, and all traces of the Few 4 Emmanuel, are a good deal more diffi | green forest were swept away, better than he { cult to obtain, and are more sparingly {periods of time passed; the seas van do all in his power to assist them, men know Ireland does. At one time he was one of the | was dormant pending a dispute be tween three claimants, Until this time the family surname had been Ker Kers of Cessford; it now became Innes- Ker, as it remains—for the settlement of this three-cornered dispute awarded the title to Sir James Innes, as heir by right of a maternal ancestress, it is a very pretty little bit of character | istic history that Duncan Forbes, the historian, records in reference to this succession of James Innes as fifth duke that “his pedigree of thirty de | scents proceeds regularly from 1153, {| and that in all their long line the in- | heritance never went to a woman, that | none of them ever married an ill wife, { and that no one ever suffered for their | debts.” { Americans returning from Europe distributed than was the case when alone, being the ancient family of the | { The mineral wood is converted ito shalcedony, opals and agates, and wmny of the pleces closely approach Le condition of jaspar and onyx. The degree of hardness attained hem is such that they make an ex ent quality of emery Among the ne me. YAST PETIRFIED FORESTS. ANCIENT VOLCANIC UPHEAVALS IN ARIZONA DISCLOSE HUGE STONE LOGS, | st i iu { it 1 l Conlon goon every | Yari-Hued Adamantine Forms Mil- conceivable shade of bi 4 white, lions of Years viu-Prescrved by the Government Against Spolia- tion—Natural wonders. Once they were a forest of stately | plues grown to a height far beyoud that attained by the wees of today, Ages passed, and through some unex- plainable act of nature they were up- rooted, prostrated to Lue ground, probably buried beneath the earth by volcanic ashes and the snows of many winters, Next came the waters of Vast ished: volcanoes sent their ashes Ligh Lest hated men in the country, and! Humbert occupied the throne of united in the air, and the explosions from | diligent students of Irish history with | Italy in the Quirinal at Rome. The WCHESS OF in the last quarter of a century would say that it is a wonder he is still Hv- ing. He is looking out for a house A fine mansion, constructed of Ir granite and situated between Tua and Claremorris on the Mi Great Western Railway, has been gpected in this connection, It is kn as Grove Castle, and was erected al forty years ago by an eccentric 1 elor millionaire named Cannon. The estate attached to the house is of little value, but the house and grounds are beautiful. There is plenty of fishing and shooting in the neighborhood, and in the hunting season it attracts many aristocratic folk, Floors Castle is the English resl- dence of the Roxburghes, It stands on a terrace overlooking extensive mead- ow lands spreading down to the Tweed at its junction with the Teviot. It is like a veritable fairyland of cupolas and minarets, of turrets and embras ured parapets. The castle was bulit in 1718 by Sir John Vanbrugh, in the conception of some happy moment. Sis Walter Scott described “t“» mansion of Floors” as “a kingdom for Oberon and Titania to dwell in, whose majesty and beauty impresses the mind with a sense of awe mingled with pleasure” Vanbrugh might well be dubbed the “architect to first dukes” from his close association with Blenheim for the first Duke of Mariborough, Kimbolton for the first Duke of Manchester, and now Floors for the first Duke of Rox- burghe, who had just received this fur. ther title. The third duke was so en grossed with the lifelong task of get ting together his priceless collection in- wn it ach- opens his eyes, for only twenty minut | es 18 allowed him to wash, dress, fold up his bedding and set In order his room and its contents, At 6.30 o'clock the young men form in companies and march to the mess hall for breakfast. Almost immediately after breakfast begins a routine of study that Includes such branches as mathematics, draw. ing, modern languages, geography, chemistry, geology, ete. Interspersed between the study and recitation hours are intervals of drill, and what in any other school would be given over to recreation periods are devoted to ath. Jetics In accordance with a definite program. To Make Physically Perfect. The cadets at West Point go In for almost every known muscle-bullding exercise, Early in the morning they go through the well-known “setting up” drill and time is also devoted pare | ticularly In summer to tennis, golf, polo, hurdle riding, baseball, foot ball and swimming . The gymnasium pur dancing are compulsory during years of the four year gourse. A POR SI A mar TT a. gp “30:00:00 [ LR SES) I EES ¢ “Now, my friends” said the “what oy len show us?” DANCING 18 CONSIDERED A NECESSARY ADJUNCT TO THE “POINT” | (many | tances), and only one kind word (from WXBURGHE, foreign envoys are required nowadays to persons vouch for the social standing of those of their countrymen admitted into the presence of it is wellnigh an impossi- {ity for our Ambassador to vouch for social standing of every American who happens to be “doing” and takes it into his head to 80 and “call” on the king. are ng A sentiment growing more or less lately favoring the appointment of a Cana dian to the exalted post of Governor General. The country has always been ruled by some member of the nobility sent out from England by the Crown, it Is possible, therefore, if the Crown looks with favor on the petitions, that pome day a man born in the United Btates may become Governor-General of Canada. There is nothing but the sentiment of the people to prevent this. There is no native-born clause, as is the case with the Presidency of the United States. One who becomes a British subject by naturalization 1s just as good a Britisher as one born under the British flag. ——— Disguised as a Tramp. { That a man moving amongst the re | spectable classes should disguise him- self as a beggar, and go in search of {adventure is not a new idea. | man with a taste for such experiments, however, introduced a novel feature, when masquerading as a tramp, by visiting, amongst others, some of his friends.” : He had a splendid opportunity of testing their benevolence, for none of them recognized him with his seedy garments and general alr of wretch? edness, His pligrimage lasted five days, and during that period (he started in an appropriate state of pennilessness) he begged or earned just about sufficient to live in a rough fashion. He received Innumerable insults from unsuspecting acquain. A stranger). Even when he entered a thop or lodging-house with money to pay for his needs his ragged garments procured him , much contemptuous treatment, and he learned a severe lesson on the importance of clothes, Indeed, his cynical conclusion fis that a man who seeks charity should, before all things, be well dressed! mn —— a — A Happy Family, A so-called “happy family” P. T. Bare num used to exhibit consisted of a lion, a tiger, a bear, a wolf, and a lamb, all penned her in one cage. “Remark. able I” a visitor said to Mr, Barnum ; “re- markable, impressive, instructive! And A young! the interior of the earth swept up-! ward the debris, amoung which were the wrecks of the pines. Following this period the waters hurried toward lower levels, gnawing the masses 7 and endeavoring to eat into the very | cell structure of the logs. Erosion | was at work, and after centuries, through the probable action of acids aud alkalies, the logs of the ancient forest are revealed to human eyes. Preserved For Future Ages. This is the history of the wonder ful petrified forest of Arizona which Congress, at its last session, set aside as a Government reserve. There are in all about 5,000 acres of land in this reserve, Japd valueless for commercial or agricultural pursuits, but the hand of nature has created of this vast ex panse a garden of monuments to the vegetation of long ago, forming an attraction for people from all parts of the world, Trunks of trees, some 8 hundred feet long, and huge logs, lie In a con fusion in the same position as when nature, in the resurrection of the an clent forest, broke out In explosion due to the eruption of volcanic crat ers. In every direction are to be seen pieces of petrified wood, some only as! But after all, the climax of all this large as a toy marble, others Ib|geepic beauty is the “Natural Bridge™ blocks and logs from eight to ten |eongisting of a great petrified trunk feet In diameter; others are buried | jying across a canyon 20 feet deep, partly beneath the shale, and occa- [gpd forming a natural foot-bridge om sionally there projects from the side, | which men may easily cross. At the near the top of the mesa, the end of 8 | point where the bridge crosses, the uge log. | canyon is about 30 feet wide, but the These mesas are in themselves | trunk lies diagonally, and measures wonderful structures. They are com- | 44 feet between the points at which RR posed of shale, clay and sandstone of | rests on the sides of the canyon. The many colors, and the ravages of [total length of the tree exposed is storm and wind have erodéd their 111 feet and measures where i® sides so that here and there they | crosses the center of the canyon, 10 stand out like the playthings of a | feet in circumference, pre-historic giant child. By ponder-| In the past fow Js ing “upon this sight a faint idea is| begun to show signs of iding to given of the countless number of | that peculiar inclination of all petrd- years that have rolled by since this | fied trees to crack up into immense erosive process commenced. | pleces; In fact, In several places travy- While there are to be found vari [erse cracks have already appeared ous localities in Arizona, New Mexico | The Government, in order to preserve ETRIFIED BENTINE " THE MESA. : and appear as hard TeLIOW, h blue-purpl each piece has e 3 ance of wood, thougl as steel. Here and sections show signs of decay arrested by the peculiar progress which converted the wood into mineral, The traveler sees gmall chips upon the ground, and om picking them up, finds them as heavy as 80 much lead and as démse as flint. The Government, while allow- ing visitors to carry off little pleces of | this character, prohibits the removal {of any large blocks. Huge Stone Log Bridge. atural are Pe HAAS mt — - € | td od Aah mt ah 4 — —— | hb CATT AOR oF | 11s 3 i a“ . “ i aS " : y 5 * » » X hi " i [+ . pamidth * A ; 3 a ! DEL v RIFIEO rones : BA Ah AN NATURAL WONDERS OF THE SOUTHWEST. un brent Gundian pe in quantities, yet the re. gion known as the “Petrified Forest of Arizona” is most notable, and is properly classed among the natural wonders of America. In the first place, it Is much more ancient than petrified stone Na neath three lug
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