eames ra sea ro THE CENTRE REPORTER. - THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914 THIS HAPPENED IN MISSOURI. A Sale and Weddiog Notize When Properly Mixed Makes ¥plcy Reading. A Missouri editor in making up the form for his paper got an account of » wedding and a sale advertisement badly mixed up, an error easily made, and in this case makes very epics reading. This being in the wuidst of the sale season in Centre county, the Missouri mix-up is printed in fall : William Smith, the only son of Mre. Josiah Smith, was dispored at auction to Lucy Anderson on my fara one mile east of here In the presence of 70 guests, including the following to wit : Two mule 12 head of cattle. I'he Rev, Jockson tied the nuptial, the least weighing 1,250 pounds on the hoof. The beautiful home of the bride was tastefully decorated with a seewash calf, a spade, a sulky rake, one feed grinder, one set double har ness almost new, and just before the ceremony was pronounced, Mendel ssohns wedding march was played by one milch cow, five years ; one Jersey cow, to be fresh next April, carrying » bunch of flowers in her hand and looking charming in a gown made of light spring wagon, two boxes of ap- ples, two racks of hay, one grindstone, mouseline deori trimmed with abou! 180 bushels of spuds, The groom I= wel! known and a popular young mar and has always stood well among #c- clety circles of Berkshire hogs, whils the bride is an accomplished and tal- ented school teacher of a splendid drove of Poland China—pedigree 1 desired, Among the besutiful pres enis were two sets of knives snd fork. one spring barrow, one wheelbarrow, one go-carl, other articles too numer- ous to mention. The bridal coupl left yesterday on an extended trip ternn of 12 month time, extended t« responsible parties, otherwise spol cash ; luncheon will be served at the stable, After this Mr. and Mrs. Smith will go to housekeeping in a cozy home at the corner of Main and Dr R. L. Granby, auctioneer. S————— n———— Uppose Traction Engine Law, Steps to combat rulings of E. M Bigelow, political state highway chief, on the new traction engive tax impos- ed by the last legislature, were consid ered at a meeting of the executive committee of the State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry of which Hon. Leonard Rhone is a member and wae in attendance. The committees are not certain just what they can do, but they are trying to find out. The legisiature, in fixing the tax on engines, adopted rules which, the farmers say, are tantamount to keep- ing traction engines off highways al- together. In addition to this, Bige- low has made rules that are interpret. ed by the farmers as finishing the op- pressions the legisiature started. The main fault found with Bigelow’s self-made rules is that the license form provides that any rales Bigelow may make in the future shall immediately become applicable to the licenses. The grangers likewise find fault with the statutory provisions reguiat- ing the width of tires of traction ep- gine wheels, the width and height of cleats, ete. In thie, they are in se cord with local associations all over the state. AM Juniata County Dry. Juonists county will be dry for st least another year. Four hotel men had applied for licenses, Judge W. N. Seibert and Associates Gilscn and Harley uoanimously agreed that no licenses wouid be granted and so ap- nounced in open court, ————— UY TARA Transfers of Heal Estate Victor 8. Weston et ux to William M. Bigelow, 66 acres In Worth twp $1,900, Noah W. Cronmiller et al to Emanuel Weigel, 5 lols in Aarons. burg $375 Lehigh Valley Coal Co. to Mike Shall, tract of land in Bnow Bhoe twp, $35. Mike Bball et ux to Mary Duke, tract of Jand in Bnow Bhoe twp, $427.50 Jobn P. Conde, Bherift, to Abra- bam Oberndorf, house and Jot in Bellefonte, $2,755, Alfred Hehr to Joseph H. Hark. ine, tract of land in Penn twp. $1. William Guodlewsky to John Gros. ky, trect of laud in Rush twp, $500, Ell M. Btere et ux to Charles T Fahr, tract of laud in Upion twp , $250, James B. Yeageret uxto Mary T. Gleason, tract of land in Bnow Ehoe twp. $33.33 Mary Cook to Mary T. Gleason, tract of lsnd in Boow Bhoe twp, $16 66 John A. Yeager et al to Mary T, Gleason, tract of land in Bnow Bhoe twp. $60 RR THAT PRODUCES SOU Sn LIGHT ND Statement Sounds Incredible, but Ex periment Will Speedily Demon- strate It to Be a Fact. It seems increditie that a beam of Hight sould be made to produce sound, put such a thing can be done. A ray of sunlight is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel containing lampblack, colored silk or worsted, or any like substance. A disk having slits or open- ings cut in it is made to revolve swift ly in this beam of light, so as to “cut it up,” thus csusing alternate flashes of light and shadow. When one places his ear to the glass vessel he hears strange sounds so long as the flashing beam falls upon the vessel. A still more extraordinary effect Is produced when the beam of sunlight is made to pass through a prism, so as to produce what is called the solar spec trum. The disk is turned and the col ored light of the rainbow is made to break through it. Now, if the ear be placed to the vessel containing the silk or other material, as the colored lights of the spectrum fall upon fit, gounds will be given by the different parts of the spectrum and there will be silence in other parts, For example, if the vessel contains red worsted and the green light flashes upon it, loud sounds will be heard when tiie red and the blue parts of the rainbow fall upon the vessel. Other colors produce no sounds at all, Green silk gives out sound best in a red light. Every kind of material gives more or less sound in different colors and no sound at all in others.—Har per's Weekly. WORLD'S DEBT TO VEGETABLE Possibly Sun Worship Had Its Origin In Knowledge of the Fact of the Dependence, Vegetable life may worry along without animals, but animal life can’t continue without vegetables, There fore, says an English chemist, man owes a great debt of gratitude to the vegetable, He should do his best to foster it. It is not intimated whether this is an argument in favor of the theories advanced by the vegetarian, but it is considered ample proof man would not be here only for the hum- le vegetable kingdom. But vegetables, like animate life, are dependent upon sunlight for their existence. The vegetable, however, {8 both the direct and the indirect sustenance of animal being. Animal life of certain species exists solely, or almost so, on the flesh of other ani mals. But that latter food eventually is dependent upon the vegetable. Time would eradicate animate life should inanimate cease to exist. The relations between plant and animal form a beautiful dispensation. Man owes to the vegetable more than he does to lower animal life. “Thus” concludes this chemist, “isn't it possible the sun worshipers perhaps had a greater realization of the value of Old Sol than we of the present century? Livingstone’s Resourcefulness, David Livingstone, explorer and mis sionary, was a man of varied accom- plishments. Besides getting himself taught on board ship, and later by Sir Thomas Maclear, to take with great accuracy astronomical observa tions for fixing latitude and longitude, besides acquainting himself with bot any and geology, with patristic litera. ture and Egyptology, Livingstone was an excellent mechanle, a steersman and & mariner. His resourcefulness was at all times remarkable, When he was hard up for fuel on his first steamer journey up the River Shire he landed in the elephant marsh. Here no trees existed and no fuel was ob tainable, but his men found many bones of slaughtered elephants, Liv- ingstone at once took the bones on board, burned them in the furnaces of the Ma-robert, and so continued his Journey. 2 Picture Statesmen at Work, A moving picture concern recently obtained permission to take a series of moving pictures illustrating French parliamentary life. Legislators soon got to hear of the matter, says Les Nouvelles, some of them showing themselves particularly anxious to fig- ure on the film. The taking of the film lasted several days, and the oper- ator took pictures of the chamber at all times. Photographs will show the deserted benches of the morning, with a dozen or so deputies discussing laws affecting the whole of France, the sol emn arrival of the president, life in the lobbies, a stormy afternoon ses Sion and the thronged refreshment Very Rapid Descent, At the exhibition of post-impression- ist paintings in New York two Boston men were standing in front of the mue talked-of canvas alleged to rep resent a figure descending the stairs, “This is tho worst yet,” cried one. “Look at it! It is simply a tangled mass of streaks and splotches.” “I think,” sald the other, after gas. explanatory. It should tell us that figure descending the stairs aft. fan the careless scrub woman had left ! . William Yeager's heirs to Mary T. | "Cu 00 soup on the top step.” Gleason, tract of land In Bnow Bhoe twp. $33.38 Anton Neubar et al Exre. to Adsm Wilson et ux, premises in Philips burg, $1,800 J. Frank Bmith OC, 0. OC. to Martin TT «o's 10. BURY, 1 don't expect to be engaged again for & week or two. a No Immediate Use for Them, BOTIi GOOD AND BAD MEANING i i PYTHON HAD HAD FULL MEAL From Time Immemorial With Wild Creatures. ——— i connected with wild animals. In the case of a lion, it is believed that the wearing of a claw of this animal will bring great strength. People connected with circuses and shows have a saying that when lons or extremely bad weather is at hand, and that when they continually was their faces in cat-like fashion they are likely to have fits of ill temper in the near future. Numberiess are the superstitions associated with the tiger. The natives of India believ that its whiskers are a deadly poison, and that when finely gon’s food they death. What is known as the “evil | Stomach of Snake Shot by Hunt ers In Bombay, - EE sonal Historical Society published the lollowing account of the voracity of a i { i | { i { tigers round the necks of their chil dren, To seo a wolf is supposed to be a before the wolf sees him, in gompany with Mr. J. H.' E. Tupper, {. C. 8., when one of the beaters call- pd out that there was a big snake. We found that it was & large python, lying torpid. We proceeded to shoot #, and as it was lying half coiled up, its body was naturally a good deal in- lured iy the process. Seeing a feath- er sticking out of a wound, we told sne of our men to extract the bird to which it belonged. He pulled a duck of the wound, and took out five They were all quite, or recents their feathers being com- in all fresh, his volce. For a hare to run across anyone's path 18 considered a very bad sign in some parts of England, because In olden times it was believed that witch- es transformed themselves Into hares in order to bring bad luck to their ene mies. HIS BRAIN WORKED SLOWLY Small Boy Turned Statement Made by His Teacher to Good Advantage. “Strange to say,” sald the school teacher, addressing his class of boys, “our brain acts as a telephone to the different parts of our body. Uncon- sciously, before we move our feet or hands, the message comes from the brain." “Jack Murphy, what are you grin ning at? he demanded. “1 was thinking of somethin’, sir, came the answer “Well, think of something that'll do your brain a little good!” retorted the master, “Here, compe out of that!"—as an- other grin spread {itself over the gsaney youngster's face. "Just stand behind the board for half an hour, and I'll give you about afterward!” At the expiration of the lesson Mur- phy was recalled. “Hold your hand out!” demanded the teacher, switching his cane No response from the stolid Mun phy, who appeared to be thinking hard. “Do you hear me, Murphy?” exclaim- ed the exasperated man. “Yea, sir,” he answered, “but my brain hasn't sent the message down yet!” *» Deo Volente, How conceptions of travel have changed is {illustrated by the disap- pearance of the old “D. V." provision. Writing of the Bath road, Mr. Tris tram notes that in Charles IL's time the coaches between London and Bath in three days “if God permit;” but in 1780 the time had come down to two days, and the pious saving clause was omitted. “God permit” according to Grose, was a regular slang term for the old stage coach, and readers of Scott will remember what the Anti quary sald about it. But Dean Ram- say tells of the village carrier who, upon being asked when he would be at Aberdeen, replied: "I'll be In on Monday, God willin’ and weather per mittin’, an’ on Tiseday, fither or no.” Spolled the Show. There is a good story of an actor who was depleting on the boards a powerful pathetic part. He had made up marvelously to look starved to skin and bones, tot tering on the verge of death from starvation, gasping for breath, and weak from emaciation, Still, he had on his fingers a flash ing diamond ring, and the sarcastic gallery reproved him for it one night. At the critical moment the hero fal tered out in agony to the gallery: “Good heavens! If this falls, shall I do?” The answer floated down unexpect- ed from the top seats: “Pawn yer ring!" The act was spoiled. Roses for Restoring Halr, Roses form the chief ingredient in what is probably the earliest recipe for a hair restorer on record. Accord. swallowed at about the same time. There were gadwall and spotbill among the ducks, but we did not note the description of all the ducks. All had been swallowed head foremost. The python, when stretched out and roughly measured, was fully elght tect long. Is not this an unusually heavy meal for a python to make? Shortly after, while wading in the water after a wounded duck, I saw a gnake swimming near me. It made it through the head It was thon about six feet in length” a py- Scholars Own Themselves at a Loss as to Whence Came the Term “Mephistopheles.” There has been much discussion con- sorning the origin of the word Mephistopheles” in the past, which has, moreover, as yet no very satisfactory conclusion. Some very bizarre explanations had been propounded before the time of Goethe, ended In musician Zelter in a letter of Novem. ber L829 give any finite answer to the question "Whence comes the name Mephistopheles? ” to one theory It was a hybrid Graeco-Hebrale formation of mephis and tophel (the lar); accord- ing to another its etymology was en tirely Greek-—very dublous Greek— mephostophilos, “he who does not love the light” Though this derivation is hardly acceptable, it appears that this was the original form of the name, the second vowel being replaced by “* at first In England, whence it was taken into the popular German mysteries, In the last number of the “Goethe Jahrbuch” Herr Oelhke gives an en tirely novel derivation, which, if far fetched, has at least the merit of orig- inality. It is based on two names in chapters IV. and XV. of the Second Book of Samuel, Mephiboschetu and Architophel, il] o “1 cannot According Do the Dally Task. We often say to ourselves, “I would gladly do my duty, if I knew what It {8.” Doubtless there are cases In which it is hard to decide, but a re- mark of Goethe on the subject is well worth remembering “How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but by action. Do your duty, and you will find out the sort of man you are. ‘But what is my duty? What today asks of you” Do not consider too tar, too deeply, too seriously. Do the plain, present task, and do it well. It {s amazing how pleasant you feel when it is done—and fit is not wholly unpleasant even in the doling. Youth's Companion. Care of Pigeons. Rusty iron and stone lime placed in the drinking water once a week will act as a tonle. Every other week the drinking foun- tains should be disinfected by using five drops of earbolic acid to a gallon of water. If this acid is left in the water all day and the birds drink it, it will not hurt them in the least Unless one loves the business he will not succeed. It is an ideal bush ness for a voman provided she has pa tince, common sense and needs the money. Keep visitors away from the lofts fluring feeding time. Hainault Forest. Hainault forest, where {t has been foto a liniment with bear's grease make the hair grow again in most marvelous fashion” Pliny also reo to trim the hairs of the eyebrows” Roses figured prominently in several old-time strong drinks, such as rosa solls, which consisted of rose water mixed with aqua vitae and flavored with einnamon. The favorite morn. ers was “rosa solis, to wash the mol pow but a shadow of its former self. For Halnanlt was the part of the great river Roding, and that forest once stretched from Waltham to Colchester and the sea. King John cleared a large part of it, but Hainault remained & considerable forest until 1861, when pver 100,000 of its trees were felled, dho land drained and what was onee wild and matcbless made generally time and uninviting.—London Chron- It Was Still Hard, $ KeEPING THE BOYS STRAIGHT Father Recognized Force of Appeal to Manliness, and It Has Worked Weil. f‘everal gray-hatred business men were recently chatting over their cigars, “This talk about mother and boys 18 all very well,” said one father comes In strong, My father devoted one minute a day to us boys that did more at that age to keep us straight the mother's admonitions, was a sweet unworldly littlé person and we adored her and reverenced her teach. ings. However, she ould think of us ag anvthing but her little boys, and as we taller and worldly we acquired the usual boyish of nee and secretly pat. the “Hut 100. all litle She than never « Erow more exalted impor beon led girict goodness as a little gense might have ronize her med, except ¢ the fore h man TO TELL CONDITION OF MOON Keep in Mind Being the Con- trariness of the Planet. Pow » 3 - - worn “8 Pew people can tell at a glance whether the moon is waxing or wan t ig a © is A 10 know Lat those whe thifig is to notice whether in the full sén right or wanes.” But then comes Luna sem is deceitful}, understand the nor nila De 1 # always mc ghovy wan 1 is like Those who have do BAYS ubt look to see whet is decreasing they will understand ing, wi that it is decreasing Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! One may ignorant, perhaps, that Fre French, remains as the i 1 1 4 "i . ¥ ww ian je ged certain royal not be old Sa when “the the chamber,” before the clerk cries in the guage of our fathers, “Le roy le veult (“The king so pleases™) If the bill that he is asked to approve is a mw 3 bill the clerk foung obelsance: “The king thanks his good subjects, accepts their benevolence and is pleased.” The proclamation on ascending the throne preceded by the traditional call of the French her alds of former times: “Oyez! Ovyez! Ovez!” Alas, that time has disfigured this old word of our country, and today the phlegmatic English herald cries thrice to the people: “0 yes! O yes! OQ yes!"—Le Cri de Paris. adde after a prol iw Charlotte Bronte and M. Heger. The discovery of four new Bronte Jetters, reopening the question of Char. lotte’s feelings for her Belgian school master, makes it interesting to note that her first impressions of M. Heger were far from favorable Mrs. Gas- kell in her “Life of Charlotte Bronte” quotes the letter written after her arrival in Brussels: “He is professor of rhetoric, a man of power as to mind, but very choleric and irritable in tem- perament, A little black be ing, with a face that varies in expres gion. Sometimes he borrows the linea- ments of an ineane tomeat, sometimes those of a delirious hyena; occasion- ally, but very seldom, he discards these perilous attractions and assumes an air not above one hundred degrees removed from mild and gentieman- like” MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS, OVERCOAT FOUND-Cravineit rin oral Owner oan inquire at this offices, and Ly paying ohergesn (his adv, the coal can be sound NM. E C~Centre Hall. PORTE FOR BALE~The under igned for sale a lt o' chestnut fence Posis DINGES, © tre Hall, Pa CLOVER HAY WANT: D - Several tors of clover hay want 4. Top price for fist quality J. HH WEBER Centre iiali 1 UAK FOR RENT ——Six-room house in Centre Hall, now obcnpied by Rohe family, I off red for tent Telephone $44 State Cob ge, 0 foqguire of MRS, LAMBERT, State Colley e 1 ni 61.3 I 10 RENT The nodernsipned offers for rent hey howe ppt phi schoo! house in Cenfre Hal Re MAGGH SWARE, or RICHARD BROOKS, Centre Hall Pa {09 pd) ENCE BUILDING « The andessigned are prepared to do ail kinds of fence valid: ing, either by the day or conirat GN COONEY and J, W, WEAVER, Spring Mills, R. 0.4 Boll phone 84-114, Ooiger. {ol pd) HENRY F. BITNER, A. M, Ph.D. SCRIVENER AND CONVEYANCER Doeds, Mottenges, Ponds, Wills, Leases, Oo tracts, and other legal papers carefully prepare at short notice, One Vx oe in law of fice. Terms reasonable. Beli phobe 174, MURRAY'S DRUU STORE, URNTRE BALI Cold. Wenk Lungs. Coughs. Weak Throats, Ayer’s Sor Public Sale Register, HI Hien yous HO] ROWE, REC, BR we $Y FRIDA sotih of Pott Feren st OR the Bibsie farm of 8 AGENT WASTED<«We have Jost received ins for snatiod thet the Find Nati tel Navserks of Hichosteor, N. Y. wants lady of genliomen rep Pr Senatives bu this section to scil all Kinds «f 8h ube, Troe abd Beside, They Inder us iho previons «x perieton 11s pees Lie to ¥ WHS every week Any pie oul of erogloymcnt wil ¢ them § 1 Loins a d encione thle police, Adv, page 355 % oR SALE AT ONCE ~ 28 ACRES foe jand solamie thes Spring Mills, thereon erect ed a large Bikok Bouse, large Lamu and all oul- bulidi ae 17 ACHE, part mountain Iand, «in le near Centre Hall thereon en ttod a gown] hone CHAS I BARTHOLOREW Istirmr oe and Real Baste, Conds HOA, ba Pcs DMINISTRATORY NOTICE-LETTERS of adwinstiration on the «oats of Jouss B ble, ale of Pala Lowashlo, deoese®, Lester of ade nian Lol wt the above iste navies been duly ted 0 the andersigred, ‘v would respectfully Gest pores Know themselves Tod bed io he are 0 make ot mediate pacnest and thoes having claims Agni sl The same to peovent them duly suthea- t 4 for settlement. ALINE RIBLE HARKY F, BinLE, Admintstatore, Spring Mab Pa, RD. si, S018 FO OLLI A wii . " vale sa the propery known ss the redeich Ay fea, ove mile east of Oenire JUL comprising a ACRES o! nf veri clgit arma Coat, and ¢ WER Cony, don With timber oo § hie two ¢ an ow of other
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