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"HERMIT HOPES TO
LIVE 350 YEARS
Puts Faith in Water and Pine
Bark Cakes.
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New York.—An amazing secret of
longevity is claimed to have been dis-
covered by a Corean, regarded as a
saint, named Skajkinan—amazing in
its simplicity as well as in its antici-
pated results. For it consists in noth-
ing but a diet of water and small
cakes made of pine bark.
Upon such food Skajkinan is said
to have subsisted for many years, ac-
cording to reports from Tokio. He is
now 60 years old and “still going
strong,” and expresses the utmost
confidence in living for 290 years
longer, thus rounding out three cen-
turies and a half.
Such an age is, of course, much
less than that credited to the antedi-
luvian patriarchs. But it is precisely
twice that attained by Abraham, it is
pointed out, and, of course, vastly
greater than that attained by any one
since his time.
Skajkinan is a hermit, who lives on
Corea’s holy mountain, Kongosan, He
recently went to Tokio to tell of his
method of longevity to the members
of the Japanese Peer club. He says
that he found the secret inscribed in
ancient books, which record that in
this manner men have prolonged their
lives to 500 years.
He sleeps only two hours a day,
massages himself and performs other
hygienic exercises according to the
holy teachings of the Buddhists, and
his food consists of a few of the pine
bark cakes and one or two glasses of
water daily.
As a result of this regimen he said
he feels younger and stronger at sixty
than he did at thirty years.
Suit Over 4 Cents Drags
On 6 Years in France
Paris—An 83-centime lawsuit has
been going on nearly six years in
France and the end is not yet in sight.
This sum is about 33; cents,
Millions of francs have been spent,
courts have been occupied for weeks
at a time and the best lawyers have
argued on both sides.
Marcel Boyer, a well-known “chan-
sonnier,” conducting a sort of literary
cabaret in the Latin quarter, started
the judicial row by refusing to pay a
disputed extra tax on two tickets he
gave to an eld war comrade, Boyer,
seeing the soldier at his box office,
promptly passed him in, handing 4
francs to the cashier as the govern-
ment tax on reduced-price tickets.
The government inspector demanded
83 centimes more because, he said,
3oyer did not go through the formal-
ity of buying the low-priced tickets
frem the box office.
Decisions of all sorts have been
handed down, some courts holding one
way and some another, but always
leaving unsettled some technicality
that caused new trials. These re-
hearings then went to other jurisdic-
tions. The case has traveled pretty
well over central France since it
started November 27, 1921,
Sixteen Skeletons Found
Under Berlin Elevated
Berlin.—From midnight to dawn 16
skeletons of men, thought to have been
murdered secretly in the revolution of
1018, were unearthed in the founda-
tions of Berlin's elevated line. The
burial ground was between the former
military hospital and barracks, the
scene of some of the cruelest battles
of the revolution. The papers report
that skulls were cracked by the butt
ends of guns, which strengthens the
theory that the bones are those of
vietims of the revolution, though a
group of experts assert that the skele-
tons are a century old.
Russian Claims to Have
One Million Dependents
Moscow.—Income tax time in soviet
Russia awoke an echo of the past
when a workingman, presenting him-
self for tax assessment, was asked to
fill out a blank indicating, for pur-
poses of tax deduction, the individuals
who had been dependent on. his earn-
ings,
“A wife, a mother-in-law, and one
million British miners,” he wrote into
the card. The claim in full was not
allowed.
“Prettiest Coed” Scorns
Short Hair and Smoking
Jackson, Miss.—The prettiest girl
at Millsaps college has never bobbed
her hair or smoked a cigarette, and
is far from the so-called “collegiate”
type.
Ruth Buck is an Irish beauty, with
deep blue eyes and wavy brown hair,
She is not famed as an athlete, but
during her three years in college she
has made exceptionally high grades
and is an accomplished violinist.
BIRTHPLACE OF HYMN
MARKED BY TABLET
History of “He Leadeth Me”
Told by Author.
Philadelphia.—A bronze tablet has
been placed by the United Gas Im-
provement company on its new build-
ing here as a permanent marker of
the birthplace of the hymn “He Lead-
eth Me,” and the historic fact that the
First Baptist church once stood on
the present site of the company's
building. The tablet was erected on
the Arch street side of the building.
It bears date of June 1, 1920, erection
having been delayed by the building
of the new structure and the construe-
tion of the subway.
Information that paved the way for
the erection of the tablet was given
two years ago by the late Rev. Dr.
John Gordon, a Baptist clergyman
who pointed to a brownstone dwelling
at 1409 Arch street, adjoining the new
building, and said: “That old dwell-
ing has a remarkable history; a won-
derful hymn, ‘He Leadeth Me, was
written there. The Rev. Dr. Gilmore
wrote it way back in the '60s. The
hymn has been sung all over the
world.” .
Words Set to Music.
Dr. Gilmore, in his own account of
the writing of the hymn, said:
“As a young man I was supplying
for a couple of Sundays the pulpit of
the First Baptist church in Philadel-
phia. At the midweek service—on
the twenty-sixth of March, 1861—I
set out to give the people an exposi-
tion of the twenty-third Psalm, which
I had given before on three or four
occasions; but this time I did not get
further than the words, ‘He leadeth
me." Those words took hold of me as
they had never done before. I saw
in them a significance and beauty of
which I had never dreamed.
“At the close of the meeting a few
of us kept on talking about the
thought I had emphasized; and then
and there, on a blank page of the
brief from which I had intended to
speak, I penciled the hymn, handed
it to my wife and thought no more
about it.
“It occurred to her months after-
ward to send the hymn to a paper
published in Boston, where it was
printed. It attracted the attention of
William B. Bradbury, who slightly
modified the refrain and set the hymn
to the music which has done so much
to promote its popularity.
Hears His Hymn Sung.
“I did not know until 1865 that my
hymn had been set to music. I went
to Rochester to preach as a candidate
before the Second Baptist church. Go-
ing into their chapel on the day that
I reached the city, I took up a hymnal
to see what they sang, and opened it
at my own hymn, ‘He Leadeth Me.’
I accepted it as an indication of divine
guidance, and have no doubt I was
right.”
Joseph H. Gilmore was born in Bos-
ton, April 29, 1834, the son of Joseph
Albree Gilmore, governor of New
Hampshire from 1863 to 1865. He
was educated at Phillips-Andover
academy, Brown university, and New-
ton Theological seminary.
Professor Gilmore taught at Newton
one year and then became, pastor of
the Baptist church at Fisherville, N.
H. He was called to the Second Bap-
tist church of Rochester in 1865 and
occupied the pulpit for two years. He
was then appointed to the chair of
English language and literature at the
University of Rochester, He retired
in 1908 after more than 40 years of
service,
3,000 More Varieties
of Roses in 20 Years
London.—Horticulturists of England
have much more to contend with in
the way of selecting flowers than they
had several years ago.
Statistics just issued show there
are 3,000 more different kinds of roses
than there were 20 years age. In the
same time the gladioli have risen
from 2,000 varieties to 12,000. In 1907
there were only 1,500 sorts of dahlias
whereas there now are 8,000.
Research in poultry nutrition, pre-
vention, extension of the industry and
marketing of fowls were discussed in
sessions held by various divisions of
the congress.
© Whole Family Has 5
1 Tails Like Beasts’ I
. Sydney, Australia.—Reports of
i. a family in which every member
- except the mother possesses a
. perfect tail, which, in the case
- of the father, can be wagged
like a dog’s, has excited the in-
+ terests of medical men here,
- The father, a ten-year-old son
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fe
and two daughters, three and
six, have tails. The grandpar-
ents of the children were nor- J
mal, and the father and the chil- +
dren are normal except for the J
i. tails which grow frem the bases *
. of thelr spines. :
i. “It is a case of atavism,” one k
+ medical man said. “The tailed +
. father and children who inherit J
+ the appendage are undoubtedly -
throwbacks, It is intermittent
heredity. It is also harking °
back to a more or less remote
ancestor, due to the reassertion
or reawakening of ancestral
‘ontributiens which have lain
for several generations latent or
unexpressed.”
| BLONDS SCARCE,
SO SAYS EXPERT
That’s the Reason Gentlemen
Prefer Them.
Chicago.—~The reason why gentle-
men prefer blonds is that there are
more dark than light-haired women
in the world.
For every golden-locked preference,
Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer, beauty expert,
says there are nine dusky-haired sec-
ond choices.
“Gentlemen prefer blonds,” ob-
served Mrs. Maurer, whose experi-
ences of the past twenty years have
brought her into contact with 50,000
blonds, brunetttes and red heads, “be-
cause they are hard to find. Dark-
haired women, according to beauty
statistics, outnumber thenr ten to one.
“Another reason why men like
them better is that masculine eyes
focus like moving picture lenses.
Blonds ‘take’ better than brunettes.
Light hair and eyes illuminate the
human retina just as they do the sil-
ver screen,
“Blonds, though, aren't like blonds.
They are blue blonds or pale pink
blonds or strawberry, peach, ash, gold
or red blonds. There are 18 distinct
shades of hair among the peopl of
the white race. There are also 18
different colored eyes. There are 12
independent complexions,
“A pale pink blond usually has a
delicate strawberry complexion and
China blue or moss-green eyes. A blue
blond as a rule possesses an almond
skin and occasionally dark hazel or
light brown eyes. An ash blond is
drab with chrome or light blue eyes.
“The scarcity of pure blonds ac-
counts for the popularity of the per-
oxide bottle over the dye pot. Pro-
portionately there are a greater num-
ber of bleached blonds than dyed-in-
the-hair brunettes.
“The typical American girl is a
brunette, a warm brunette, with peach
skin and hazel or medium brown
eyes.”
Tired of Liver Diet?
Apricots Just as Good
Rochester, N. Y.—Anemics who
have had to eat liver until they re-
volted at the word itself may obtain
a little variety with apricots, peaches
and prunes. Recently experiments at
the University of Rochester medical
school by Drs. G. H. Whipple and F.
S. Robseheit-Robbins indicate that, al-
though liver and kidney are by far the
most potent food materials for the re-
generation of the red blood corpuscles,
certain other animal organs and sev-
eral fruits are also effective, and
hence cam be used to vary the diet in
anemia.
A long-debated question in medicine
is whether iron must be in organic
combination before it can be utilized
by the bedy in regenerating the iron-
containing hemoglobin. or whether a
simple inorganic salt of iron, such as
ferrous carbonate, will suffice. Appar-
ently the form of iron and the quan-
tity in which it occurs’ are not the
deciding factors.
Beet kidney contains three times as
much iron as does beef liver, but the
latter is far more effective in blood re-
generation. Raspberries contain more
iron than do apricots and peaches, but
are inert in blood regeneration. There
is certain evidence that some unknown
substance is supplied by the effective
foods, and that it enables the body
to utilize the iron.
Science Hunts Cause
of Knocks in Motor
State Cellege, Pa.—The secrets of
the automobile engine in hiding the
real causes of its “knock,” may yield
before the searching investigations of
science, if coming developments in the
study of, these problems prove as
successful as prelimffary observa-
tions,
What happens in the cylinder of the
engine can be shown by means of a
spectroscope, an instrument for mak-
ing and measuring artificial rainbows,
said Dr. Emma P. Carr of Mount
Holyoke: college before the institute
of chemistry of the American Chemi-
cal society.
“The spectra, or rays, given by
| these artificial rainbows show the na-
ture of the materials present in the
cylinder of the engine,” Miss Carr ex-
plained. “The spectra of detonation,
explosion and combustion show de-
cided differences in structure and give
us some indication of the chemical
changes taking place..”
Czarist Admiral Now
“Man Without a Country”
Cleveland, Ohio. — Andrew Pukit,
fifty-three years old, a former admiral
in the czars navy, found himself a
“man without a country” when he
faced immigration officials here on a
charge of failing to report his en-
trance into the United States.
Pukit was arrested at the home of
his daughter here, where he has lived
for a year after entering the United
States in 1923, when he was forced to
flee from Russia because of his anti-
bolshevist convictions. A graduate of
the Imperial Navy academy, Pukit
saw service in the Russo-Japanese,
Chinese Boxer and World wars.
He took out his first citizenship pa-
pers in the United States a year ago,
hut his status is uncertain,
What's the Answer?
New York.—The United States De-
partment of Labor has been called
upon to rule whether all musicians are
artists or some merely “laborers in
the field of music,”
“oo.
:
THE PATTON COURIER
By Arthur Bris
LET THEM FLY
SCIENCE AND MONEY
GIRL BABIES BEST
WHERE REAL WEALTH IS
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PRESIDENT COOLIDGE wise-
ly decides to move slowly in
forbidding ocean flights. Army
and navy authorities say to officers:
“You shall not fly across the
ocean.”
WHY NOT? Flying machines
can be developed only by USING
flying machines. The deaths of
ten or a thousand brave fliers in
experimental work NOW might
mean, because of quick airplane
development, the safety of millions
in case’ of war.
There will be no war but an air
war, this nation should be ready
for it, and courageous young army
and navy men should be AL-
LOWED, not FORCED, to risk
their lives, if they choose, in the
good cause.
An automobile fight is coming,
and when the dust settles you will
find all those that understand the
automobile business selling more
cars than they ever sold.
With big wages and prosperity,
the two car man and the four car
family are increasing. Thirty
million will take the
places of twenty-two million old
cars now running in the United
States.
new cars
api
Dr. Mees, who directs Mr. East-
man’s scientific laboratories in
Rochester, says science will end
war by making it too deadly and
too expensive.
is ORGANIZED MONEY.
Money has discovered that war
kills more dollars than men, that
it creates heavy income taxes, and
other troubles. Organized money
knows that future wars would re-
sult, at the very start, in confisca-
tion of capital to meet expenses.
Organized money, which usually
gets what it wants, doesn’t want
war—a cheerful fact.
A young man who had been pro-
nounced dead was brought to life
fifteen minutes later by an in-
jection of adrenalin, a life sub-
stance secreted by one of the
mysterious glands. Doctors hope
that many apparently dead may
be saved. They even hint at arti-
ficial creation of life. They may
create that which may be called
life, but how will they create
THOUGHT? The great Darwin,
explaining much by “evolution,”
was baffled when it came to ex-
plaining the development of the
eve and sight.
Japan’s Empress has a baby
girl, and the young Japanese Em-
peror is doubtless disappointed.
Vanity leads men to value sons,
not daughters. Yet, as Galton
shows, Japanese girls have made
the greatness of Japan, as other
girls have made other nations
great. There would have been no
Charlemagne without his greater
mother; “Bertha of the Big Feet,”
as Villon calls her in his “Neiges
d’antan.”
There would have been no
Abraham Lincoln without six-foot-
tall Nancy Hanks; no Alexander
the Great without the wild Olym-
pias, dancing with snakes wrapped
around her naked body.
‘Mr. John E. Madden, ablest
horseman in America, will tell you
“quality comes through the dam.”
The State of Nevada is progres-
sive. Night before last, at Reno,
the last remaining street car in
the State rolled into the barn to
be scrapped. Surface cars vanish
from Nevada, with motor buses
taking their place. = Big cities in
the East, West and Middle West
take notice.
One single American city, New
York, in its public schools last
week received 1,100,000 children.
The real wealth of the United
States, its hope and future, are
stored away in those eleven hun-
dred thousand young minds and in
the millions of others in many
thousands of blessed public schools
all over this country.
Wealth is not in mines, fac-
tories, crops, buildings or stocks,
Another force greater than but in thought, free and untram-
sciecnce in onr civilization is meled From that all other wealt!
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MONEY FOR FARMERS
Long term mortgages on lower interest
rates are afforded to farmers under the
terms of the Farm Lodn Act.
We have $250,000.00 to apply to pur-
chase of land—payment of debt or oth-
er farm improvements.
L, EB. KAYLOR, Secretary-Treasurer,
Bell Phone 183M, Ebensburg, Pa.
666
is a prescription for
Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue,
Bilious Fever and Malaria.
It kills the germs.
Finds “1882” Turtle
Wabash, Ind.—Mrs. William
living at Disko, in the northern part
of the county, has proof that turtles
live to be at least forty-five years old.
She found a turtle in the back yard of
her home on whose back was carved
“A. F. Landis, 1882.”
Giraffe Centenary
Paris.—Paris is celebrating a new
centenary this year—that of the
giraffe. Some interested zoologists
discovered that it was just 100 years
ago, in 1827, that the first giraffe came
to the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes
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