6 THE CENTRE DEMOORAT, BELLEFONT VARIETIES OF OATHS! METHODS OF SWEARING TO THE TRUTH THE WORLD OVER, he Parsee Prefers to Vouch For His by Holding the Tall of a Are Veracity Cow «The Chinese Methods Many and Carvious Ia Form, The ruler of Great uphold the Church of England, and in only two other countries does the royal oath of office make any ligion. The King of to maintain Catholic reference to re Portugal swears the religion | BL | Beitain swears to { I was on my way home from town, ! In 4 Ld EE ES S—_————.. Sy Reformatory Lightning. A group of men sitting on the dry goods boxes In front of a country store were discussing a tremendous storm that had swept over the neighborhood the day before. “There's no use in talking,” remark- ed of them. “We are all badly geared In a thunderstorm.” “I remember one time when 1 was, enough,” sald another. “It was about n year after I was married, and It when 1 one in to thunder and lighten | was about half way there, and the rain | fell in | 1ree | and | | the king of Greece to support the Greek | church. interesting man is lable to break his mere word-= | gh kings and emperors as well Whether an oath mal nore tu else, (es the avers age man t tion. The gens and always to In Germany, however, oaths have been hed altogther, and In America, 3 uthful or ne al opinion s does. have been that it abolis ing to x or § grounds is all no oath is pationa held tl LO ) the eart then which false Until in Fram of a pri Phe ( onths One it wl the saucer is tell the od like onth, his be ments Chinese England are etimes sworn by broke 0 Eancer More effective ever, In the eyes of the Cel Jous stick The Joss stick Is set alight and while it burns the Chlpose swenarer wishes that his soul may be burned lke the stick If he gives false evidence The Chinese swear In many other ways. A solemn oath is made by writ ing certain sacred characters on a pa per and burning It, praying at the same time that he may be burned If he does not speak the truth, Sometimes he swears by burning a plece of straw, but nothing Is so forcible In drawing the truth from a Chinaman as getting him to cut off a cock’s head, This, Hke the breaking of the saucer, has a reli glous foundation. The Chinese believe that If thelr bodies are mutilated on earth thelr souls will be similarly muti Tated In heaven. She Knew Him, Myr. Fortune IHunter—Ah, my dear Mies Bnobhill, speak the word that will ‘make me the happlest of mortals. Miss Snobhill (the wealthy heiress) truth and the ncked, and truth your the for t soul ean soul This Chinaman saucer.” he believes smashed Into in this country ON the how stinis in tim The whole subject of oaths Is | They presuppose that any | 4 as anybody | | and my t is a ques- | ems to be | has I Wes best of I dried { Then | room for a donk y to get Into sheets. I stopped under a big knew that wasn't safe, but 1 hought I'd risk it. “In a few minutes the lightning a tree about a hundred feet and 1 fell down, either from the from fright, I don't know hh to this But I got up again, on end when I re | that 1 had a plug of tobacco struck Or while day Har rose members iat to do with It? My wife didn't She hated the ‘What If I had been tobacco found ght I think 1 right then that I Fhe Russinn Soldier Ri hy James Vorswore Humor ary. But he Iw was the trying to He means of los and He ex given up funny now says his humor th a lot neYer got o of money he the ing a girl wi blow broker's daughter wn her, wid to be at home 110 well of as she had been ty time he had eoalled for a he determined to make the and pop the her In a room busily eng small bundles of grass ch she had collected “What a quantity of dried grass you have collected, Miss Ritehle!™ his humor forth up and she consider rrunate, and bis opportunity He found ged with question ss wh he sald burst “Nice “Make yourself at home, Mr she sald sweetly the joke He went and was crushed out of him forever. tish- American James,” bwiore he could finish all the humor Neots home, Conniption Vis, The origin of the Americanism “con niption fits” Is discussed by a contribu tor to The Literary Era. “Dictionary of Americanisms” has a short entry under this head Bo has Murray's great English dictionary, the latter eclassing it as valgar "UU. 8." “Now, al though the slung and an Americanism, it has passed out of the provined of the merely vulgar, Bure am 1 that I have heard it from lps w home dainty refinement would stir de Helous tremors in the Mood of the dull est pedant. * * * | wake the ama. teurish suggestion that conniption f= a corruption of eatniplan and results from feminine obwervation of the way of n ent with the catnip leat” term be has | AN OPINION, In the appeal of Centre Hall boro, vs the Bible sisters, to the Superior Court Justice William W. Porter recently ren { aered the following opimion, which is against that boro ; On September 13, 18g7, the plaintiffs entered into a written agreement with the boro of Centre Hall whereby the said | borough acquired “‘the right to take all | the water aud 10 exclusively appropriate {the same (save as hereinafter except- ed and reserved) upon all that certain | tract and piece of land situate in Potter | township, Centre county, Pa.,”” accurate. ly described by adjoivers and containing | seventy-six acres, more or less. For this right the borough agreed to pay a rental of fifty dollars per year for five years, | and thereafter of seventy-five dollars per | year for the balance of a term of ninety. | nine years, In addition to the payment of this sum the borough agreed to bu'ld a reservoir for the use of the plaintiffs, and to lay certain pipes, ete For two years the borough paid the sum of fifty dollars in advance under the agreement, It re fused to yay the third year, and refused to lay pipes and make other construc. tions as agreed The plaintiffs now sue for the rent for the third year and for dam- | ages for the failure to put the down pipes. The amount in dispute was agreed | by the parties to be $149 25 At laintiffs agreement fatiure the trial the 1 the to pay the for; and that the defendant had adjoining therefrom, and by m had, without } 1 pes 4) bis 1 ans of d entering ches upon Hge egaton that water was ts from the plammtifi's Casc | a and that tl otrect fing any water f intend to.” i As no further ev , the Court directed aintifls and the rom his offer was lence WAS a verdict The exclusion of the ted are the bases of complaint hereof If the off was properly there was no se open 10 the Court but to direct a verdict The question is narrowed then to the ruling upon the offer The first item of the r is seen to prove representations on behalf of the plaintiffs that a particalar spring was upon their tract and that these represen | tations induced the contract But offer does not include any proposition t prove the authority to the alleged agent making such representations. save as they might appear bv his own declara tions Enough on this point The ap- pellant construes the balance of the offer to be to prove a motual mistake of fact at the execution of the contract by reason whereof the contract should be rescinded The mistake alleged is, that the spring (called the appellant the Laure | Spring) was upon the Bible farm, where [as it was upon the Bross farm. The | general rule is that an act dose or a con dires verdict excluded cou i] to be the by | tract made under a mistake of a material fact, is voidable and relievable in equity But the fact must be material to the act | of contract, “for though there may be an accidental mistake, or ignorance of the fact, yet if the act or contract is not materially affected by it, relief will sot be granted.” Riegel va. Tus. Co, 153 Pa. 147. Assuming that such a mistake, relievable in equity, is admissible as tion, the defendant does not explicitly more, the evidence for the plaintiffs knew that they never represented or asserted ant was upon their property. tradict. defendant executed and pow desires to rescind, itself does not purport to be a lease of any particular spring. The ex- istence of the spring described by the defendant is not a fact upon which the contract by its terms mn any way de- nds. The language is general, The case is of all the water upon the land of the plaintiffs, and, as appears by all of the testimony, there are several sources of water supply upon the land, As the mistake offered to be proven is not of a fact which one of the parties asserted, believed or assumed w the coutract was made, mutaality is absent, As it is of a fact not material to, or of the es sence of, the coutract executed, another defect, equally fatal, appears in the of. fer. The proposition in this case is rather to prove a mistake made by the borough a mistake common to both contracting parties, trial judge proved the | reut | and to make the constructions ontracted | laid | taking water | ana i the | water | ugh by i i the | rye om matter of defense, in a common law ac. | offer to prove a mutual mistake Further. | showed in effect that the spring (called | by the defendant the Laurel Spring) | | was not upon their property; that they | of no spring by that pame, and | that the spring described by the defend. | This the i offer does not in terms propose to con- | Again, the contract which the The Twinges of Rheumatism Maks Life a Burden Until They are Overcome by Dr. Greene's Nervura, Rheumatism is the subtle foe which steals away the joy of life. 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