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Bellefonte, Pa., September 12, 1902.
IN THE LATIN ROOM,
“Virginia Booth, if you aren’t a case !”’
The class in Cicero was on its way back
to the general assembly room. There was
always a minute or two in the corridor.
Virginia held her book aloft and regard-
ed the audacious little margin sketch eritic-
ally.
pretty good, don’t you think ?”’ she
said. *‘Didn’t any of you notice what a
splendid chance I had to-day? If you
think I could resist it—"’ '
“Oh, we don’t I’ laughed Georgia Love-
joy, under her breath. ‘‘Girls will you
look at him! Isn’t that Prof. Gregg all
over 2’
Prof. Gregg was the instructor in Latin
at the girl’s high school in Elwell. He was
a wiry, nervous young man, whose smooth,
spectacled countenance was capable of a
great variety of astonishing expressions.
He was also Virginia Booth’s best ‘‘sub-
ject.” From cover to cover her Cicero was
fnll of irresistible little sketches of his favor-
ite attitudes and grimaces.
This very morning bad not Salome warn-
ed her? Poor Salome! Did she not al-
‘ways do it at the last minute!
‘Not to-day, dear. Promise you won’t
I'd like to lie here and feel easy
just for one day.”
“You poor dear! But I never could
keep my promise if Prof. Gregg looked
over his spectacles in that perfectly beaunti-
ful way. I'd bave to sketch him. No use
Salome; I'm hopeless.’
“Soam I. Igive you up. But remem-
ber, some day you’ll wish you hadn’t ; it’s
coming.”’ .
“Pity me when it does! Good bye,
dear! Don’t begin to worry till a quarter
of eleven. Cicero doesn’t come till then.
Here, take this—and this—and this! Pat
‘em under your pillow. That's every pen-
cil I’ve got !”’
There was always this little scene—vary-
ing only in wording—When Virginia said
good-bye. After she went away Salome
lay among her pillows, white and wistful.
Virginia was 16, Salome 30. They had
only each other.
Salome was an incurable invalid, but all
day long, while Virginia was away, her thin
white fingers flew. That was her secret.
The things she fashioned out of her gay
wools meant pretty clothes for the child
and a chance for an education. Salome nev-
er told her sister how pitifully small her
‘income was. That was another secret.
One day there was a discussion in the Cic-
ero olass, and Prof. Gregg held out his
hand.
‘May I take your book, Miss Booth ?’!
he said. ‘‘Possibly your text differs here.
Misprints sometimes occur. Er—your
book, Miss Both?” For in the horror of
the moment Virginia had held back.
Now, because there was nothing else to
do, she extended the book. A soft gasp
was audible at her elbow and traveled over
the whole class. Georgia Lovejoy’s face
grew pale and Virginia’s crimsom.
Prof. Gregg studied the open pages at-
tentively. Now he was turning the leaves !
Georgia hid her face. Virginia’s bright
head went up high and defiant.
“Yes, I see the—er—text differs here.”
Prof. Gregg’s voice was unmoved. ‘‘Yes.
yes, yes, Isee! There is a decided—er—
variation here. This—er—text is like the
original. Isee, Isee. The class is dis-
missed. We will look further into this
and report to-morrow. The usual lesson
in advance, young ladies. You may go.”
He made no motion as if to give back
the book, and Virginia marched out at the
head of the file in silence. She went on
down the hall, aud then was surrounded.
‘Never mind, Virgie, we’ll all stand by
ou!”
“We'll body guard you! We'll tell
him it’s a species of insanity—runs in the
family. All the Booths have made faces
back to nobody knows when !”’
‘“Yes, you dear, he sha’n’t have you ex-
pelled; he sha’n’t !”’
Expelled ! Oh, was that what it meant ?
O poor Salome ! Not expelled !
‘Please stop; please let go!” Virginia
cried. “‘I don’t want to be bodyguarded.
I hope you don’t think I’m afraid ?’’
“Well, I am,’”’ chattered Georgia. ‘I'm
frightened to pieces. He'll look at all
those dreadful sketches and keep growing
madder and madder.”’
Virginia smiled grimly.
blame him at all, shall you ?”’
After school Virginia and a ‘‘committee
of fonr’’ went back to the Latin recitation
room, but Prof. Gregg had already gone,
the book was gone, too. Virginia forgot
that it was her music lesson day, and went
straight home.
Salome had not forgotten. Music lesson
days gave her an extra hour with her wools
She was so intent upon them today that
she did not hear the outside door snap or
the slow feet come plodding up the stairs,
They usually came up to her in quick,
light bounds. She would not have thought
it was Virginia, even if she had heard.
The steps came slowly along the hall to
the door, and Virginia looked in. It was
then she found out Salome’s hoarded little
secret, and the discovery sent her to her
room in a tempest of woe.
‘‘She’s making things for Miss Goldth-
waite’s store; I’ve seen them there !’’ sob-
bed Virginia. ‘But I never thought—obh,
I never thought Salome made them ! How
could I bave known ? She has been mak:
ing them right along. That’s why she’s
always so tired when I get home. It kills
Salome to sit up like that !’’
Little hy little things grew clearer for
Virginia. At the end of her sobbing vigil
two things stood out in black relief—there
wasn’t enough money, and so Salome had
to work; ‘and Prof. Gregg would probably
have her expelled. The first thought broke
Virginia’s heart, and the second would
break Salome’s. =
It was a wakeful night for the merry,
careless girl. At ten o’clock she bad shak-
en her head scornfully. Apologize $6 Prof.
Gregg? Never! She had meant no harm
to him. She had to look at him, did she
not? And when she looked, could she
help drawing him? Could anybody ?
That was at ten. At eleven Virginia
was uncertain and miserable. At twelve
she sprang out of bed. ‘‘I shall apologize,’’
she said aloud. ‘Salome and I are in the
scales. I’m up so high it makes me light-
headed, and Salome’s down so low she
bumps! I shall apologize.”
B Bag it was hard—only Virginia knew how
ard.
Afterward she remembered but one hap-
pening in that recitation. That one would
stand out clearly in her memory till she
was an old woman. She could always hear
the calm tread of Prof. Gregg’s boots across
the room to her.
*‘Your book, Miss Booth. Pardon me for
retaining it. I wanted to compare certain
portions of it with the original. I find they
agree exactly —exactly.”’
“I sha’n’t
“On the next day the recitation dra
out its length. The girls were all dull and
absent minded from sympathy. Georgia
clutched ome of Vitginia’s hands in her
own, and breathed alternate encouragement
and defiance in a whisper.
But at the end of the hour Virginia cast
off the friendly fingers and sat up straight.
“Go out, all of yon !’’ she whispered.
“My last will aud testament is: ‘Never
make face!” Take me as a warning. Now
go along, every soul of you !”’
‘Miss Booth will remain for a moment,’’
a quiet voice was saying, as the class was
dismissed.
“For all the world as if he said : ‘Miss
Booth’s hour hascome !’ 7’ groaned Georgie
beneath her breath. ‘‘Good by, poor dear !”’
““Virginia turned and faced the quiet
young man.. ‘He did not give her an in-
stant tospeak.
“‘Miss Booth, I have discovered some-
thing,’’ he began.
‘I have discovered that one of my young
ladies has a most remarkable talent—no,
please don’t speak yet! Let me finish.
She is a genius, perbaps ; I am not sure.
But, in her place, do you know what I
should do? I would turn that talent to
account. It should not be buried in a Lat-
in text book any longer. Now, I have an
idea. It is this, Miss Booth. My friend,
the managing editor of the Express, wants
me to write up the evening sessions of the
labor convention, just about to open. The
best speakers, he tells me, are to be saved
for the evenings. Some noted men will
talk. ’
““Now.”” he continued, ‘‘if this young
artist in my class were to attend those meet-
ings, and make sketches of the speakers in
their favorite attitudes, and if I were to
submit these sketches with my reports—
well, I think it might be a way to get that
talent out of its napkin. It is worth try-
ing, don’t think ?”’
Not a word of complaint; not a mention
of the subject of all those dreadful sketches.
Virginia gasped with astonishment. It was
a full minute before she could speak. Then
the words tlowed out in an impetuous,girl-
ish torrent :
“0 Prof. Gregg, I’m so glad—no, I mean
I'msosorry ! I’m so ashamed! I know
you must think I'm—a—saucehox. But I
didn’t mean anything bad, truly !”’
She stopped for breath, and he waited,
smiling.
‘You don’t mean I conld do anything ?
Make sketches and get—and get money for
them? Why, I've always drawn faces
ever since I can remember, but I never
thought of that! You don’t think—it
doesn’t seem possible—that I could earn
something that ?"’
“If you did it as well as some of your
work I have seen,”’ Prof. Gregg said,
gravely. ‘‘I know how good that is, for I
compared it with the original. It is singu-
larly correct. Miss Booth, I tell you our
talents are given us to use in the best
way. Use yours!”
“Oh, I will! I want to!’ cried the
girl. *‘I will do anything you say. Georgia's
father will let me go to the meetings with
him, and I will draw as I never did before.
And if anything ever comes of it—if it’s a
start—1I shall always bless—"’
He held up his band to stop her. His
thin, homely face was radiant with friend-
liness and interest.
‘I shall bless myself,’’ he smiled.
If Virginia could have looked ahead,
could have seen the success of that first lit-
tle attempt, followed by other successes
leading slowly, steadily upward to the
honorable height of her eager hopes ! If
she could have seen the pride in Salome’s
sweet face when the success had come !
But now, unseeing, she only stood there
in the quiet of the big, empty room and
hung her head. She only looked up in
meek, earnest contrition at her friend.
“Well, did he scold you dreadfully,
poor dear ? Are you more dead than alive?
Is he a perfect wretch ?’’ the girls clamor-
ed, softly, when she went out to them at
last.
Virginia waved them off and faced them
at arm’s length. Bhe tried to keep from
crying.
“No, I'm the wretch,’’ she said. ‘‘He
is an angel !"’— Youth's Companion.
The Mystery of a Spider’s Spinning.
How does a spider spin a thread from
one bush to another at a height from the
ground and then draw it so tight? asks a
correspondent in the New Century. Every-
one who has ever.walked through a coun-
try lane early in the morning has felt the
strained threads upon the face, and often
these threads are many yards long, but the
way in which it is done remains a mystery.
He does not fly across, drawing the thread
after him, for he has no wings. Neither
does he descend to. the ground and then
climb the opposite bush, for this would lead
to immediate and hopeless entanglement
of the gossamer filament. How then does
he doit?
M. Favier, a French scientist, has dis-
covered that a thread, one yard long, will
support by its own buoyancy in the air
the weight of a young spider. It would
thus be in the power of a juvenile to spin
a thread of shat length and trust to air cur
rents to carry ib across and attach it tothe
opposite bush so that he himself could then
pass over and draw it tight. But mauvy: of
these threads, to judge from their strength,
and consistency,are not the work of young
spiders, and, as every observer knows, they
are often many yards long and drawn so
tightly that the face is instantly aware of
their presence when breaking them.
~The work is nearly always done in the
night time, so that observation is difficult.
If the spider had any human ‘nature in
his make-up—and ‘many of his habits
would lead us to suppose that he has—he
would be gratified at the perplexity which
he causes and would advertise his perform-
ances as zealously as do less gifted human
gymnasts and even some popular preach-
ers.—Scientific American. 4
i Towa’s Old ‘Toper” Care.
‘Towa has a law which provides for the
confining ‘of habitual drunkards in’ insane
asylums. It is properly known as ‘‘the
old toper law,’’ and its enforcement is re-
ported to be having a wonderful effect.
Many men who for years clung regularly
to their toddy have reformed and become
more or lessuseful as citizens.
If such a law has the desired effect in
Iowa, it might well be tried in other states.
The insane asylum is the proper place,any-
way, for people who are habitual drunk-
ards. Surely no sane man ever is an habit-
ual drunkard, though drunkards, like all
other insane people, always get very indig-
nant when they are accused of being men-
tally unbalanced.
If a sojourn of a few months in an in-
sane asylum will cure a drunkard,it will
be well to enlarge the asylum at once and
have‘‘old toper’’laws adopted everywhere.
——Some people who are too lazy to
work, too honest to steal and too proud to
beg manage to live on credit.
A Few Points of the Game Laws Worth
Knowing.
The approach of the hunting season has
suggested to us the timeliness of publish-
ing a digest of the game laws of the State
and below we append the paragraphs that
most directly affect the conditions in this
section, :
Section 1. Be it enacted &c., That any dogs
puzsuing elk or wild deer or fawns may be killed
any person, and any constable or other town
offioil may kill any dog that habitually pursues
elk, wild deer or fawns, and the owner of such
dog shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for
each elk, wild deer or fawn killed by such dog.
. Section 2. And it shall not be lawful to hunt
pheasants or pinnated grouse during the night
time in any manner whatever, under a penalty of
ten dollars for each offense.
Section 3... No person shall at any time within
this State, kill, trap or expose for sale, or.have in
his or her possession after the same has been kill-
ed, any night hawk, whip-poor-will, sparrow, barn
swallows, woodpecker, flicker, robin, oriole, red
or cardinal bird, cedar bird, tanger, cat bird, blue
bird, or any other insectivorous bird, under a
penalty of five dollars for each bird killed, trapped
exposed for sale or had in possession.
Section 4, No person shall at any time or place
within this State, kill or take any wild turkey or
ruffed grouse commonly called pheasant, or quail,
or Virginia partridge, or woodcock, or rail or reed
bird, any pinnated grouse,commoniy called prairie
chicken, with any net, trap, snare, or torchlight,
nor use such net, tab, ‘snare or torchlight for the
Puspose of taking or killing any of said birds, nor
shall any person sell or 22pose for sale any of the
said birds after the same shall be so taken or kill-
ed, under a penalty of ten dollars for each bird ;
and it shall be lawful for any person’ to take an
destroy any such nests, {raps or snares, whenever
found set : Provided, That nothing in this section
shall be so construed as to prevent individuals or
associations for protection, preservation or propa-
gation of game, from gathering alive by net or
traps, with the written consent of the owner of the
land, quails or Virginia partridges, from the
twentieth day of December in any year, to the
first day of February next following, for the sole
purpose of preserving them alive over the winter.
Section 6. In all cases of arrest made for the
violation of each or any of the foregoing sections
of this act, the possession of the game, fishes,
birds, animals, fowls, nets or other devices pro-
vided for, or so mentioned, shall be prima facie
evidence of the violation of said act: Provided,
That nothing in this act will prevent any person
from killing any wild animal or bird when found
destroying grain, fruit or vegetables on his or her
premises.
Section 6. Be it enacted, &c., That from and
after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for
the owner or lessee of any premises, which are
enclosed, within this Commonwealth, to kill on
said premises hare or rabbits,at any and all seasons
of the year, for his protection, but not for sale.
Section 7. Any person or persons interfering
with any of the game protectors of this Common-
wealth in the discharge of their duties, or resist-
ing arrest, shall be liable to a penalty of one hun-
dred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail
for a period of one day for each dollar of penaly
imposed. Any game protector is hereby authoriz-
ed to call to his aid any citizens of this Common-
wealih, for assistance as needed in making an ar-
rest. :
Section 8. Be it enacted, &c.. That on and af-
ter the passage of this act, any person or persons
trespassing on any cultivated lands in the Com-
monwealth, for the purpose ot hunting and trap-
ping and taking therefrom any game birds or
game animals, after public notice by the owner,
lessee or occupant thereof, such notice to be post-
ed on, and adjacent to such cultivated lands, shall
be guilty of wilful trespass, and in addition to the
damages recoverable by law shall be liable to the
owner, lessee, or occupant in a penalty notex-
gesding five dollars for each and every such of-
ense.
Section 9. Be it enacted, &c., That from and
after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful, at
any season of the year, to kill or in any way des-
troy the small bird commonly known as the Eng-
lish sparrow.
Section 10. Be it enacted, &c., That tor the
benefit of agriculture and the protection of game
within this Commonwealth, there is hereby estab-
lished the following provisions for the destruction
of certain noxious animals, to be paid by the re-
spective counties in which the same are slain,
namely : For every wolf, ten dollars; for every
wildcat, two dollars; for every red or gray fox,
one dollar; for every mink, twenty five cents.
Section 11. Be it enacted, &c., That no person
inany of the connties of this Commonwealth shall
kill, wound, trap, net, snare, catch with bird lime
or with any similar substance, poison or drug any
bird of song, or any linnet, blue bird, yellow ham-
mer, yellow bird, thrush, woodpecker, cat bird
ewee, martin, blue jay, oriole, kildeer, snow
ird, grass bird, grosbeak, bobolink, phobe bird,
humming bird, wren, robin, meadow lark, night
hawk, staring, or any wild bird, other than a
game bird. Nor shall any person purchase or
have in possession, or expose for sale, any of the
aforesaid song or wild birds or any part thereof,
after the same have been killed. For the purposes
of this act the following shall be considered game
birds: The anatidale, commonly known as swans,
geese, brant and river and sea ducks; the rilldae,
commonly known as rails, coots, mud hens, and
gallinules; the limicolae, commonly known as
shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock,
sand pipers, tattlers and curlews; gallinae, com-
monly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie
chickens, pheasants, Partridges and quail; the
columbae, commonly known as doves and wild
pigeon, and the birds commonly known as reed
irds.
Section 12. The English or European house
sparrow (passer domesticus) and the various spe-
cies of hawks, owls and crows, are not included
among the birds protected by this act.
Section 13. Be it enacted, &ec., That there shall
be no hunting or shooting on the first day of the
week called Sunday, and any person offending
afsivst the provisions of this section shall be lia-
ble to a penalty of twenty five dollars for each and
sxony offense, or by imprisonment in the county
jail for a period of one day for each dollar of pen-
alty imposed.
Section 14. No person shall catch, take or kill
in this Commonwealth, or except as hereinafter
priviasd have in his or her possession or under
is or her control after the same shall have been
so killed, any wild turkey, Pheasant, grouse, quail,
pamhidge; wookcock, prairie chicken, English,
[ongolian or Chinese pheasant, save only from
the fifteenth day of October to the fifteenth day of
Deceriber inclusive in each year : Provided, That
it shall be unlawful to catch,take or kill. any Mon-
golian, English or Chinese pheasants for a period
of five years from the date of the approval of this
act: And provided further, That it shall be lawful
to catch, take and kill woodcock: during the
month of July of each and every year in addition
to the time above specified. Whoever shall oftend
against any of the provisions of this section shall
be liable ‘to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for
each and every bird so taken, or by imprisonment
in the ccunty al for a period of one day for each
dollar of penalty imposed. rs
Section 15. No person shall eatch, take or kill
in this Commonwealth, or except as hereinafter
Moviach have in his or her possession or under
is or her control after the same shall have been
so killed, any elk, deer or fawn, save during the
month of November in each year. No person or
persons shall at any time kill or capture any deer
in the waters of any of the streams,ponds or lakes
within the State. No person. or persons shall
make use of dog or dogs in hunting any elk, deer
or fawn within this State. Whoever shall offend
against any of the provisions of this section shall
bé liable to a ‘penalty ot one hundred dollars for
each ‘offense so committed, or by imprisonment in
the county jail for a period of one day for each
dollar of etalty imposed. ‘Any dog or dogs pur:
suing or killing any elk, deer or fawn, are hereby
declared a public nuisance, and may be killed b;
any person when so seen, and the owner of suc
dog or dogs shall have no recourse at law what-
ever. § i 9
Section 16. That it'shall be unlawful for any
person tokill in any one day more than ten raffed
rouse, commonly called pheasants, or ‘more than
fleen quail or Virginia partridge, or more than
ten woodcock, or more than two wild turkeys, ‘or
to kill in any one season more than iwo deer. |,
Section 17. No person shall cateh, take or kill
in this Commonwealth, or except as hereinafter
rovided, have iif his or her possession or under
is or her control after the same shall have been
go killed, any hare or rabbit, save only from the
first day of November to the fifteenth day of De-
cember, inclusive, in each year; or black, gray or
fox squirrel, save only from the fifteenth day of
October to the fifteent, day of December, inclu-
sive, in each year. Whoever shall offend nst
any of the provisions of this section shall be liable
to a penalty of ten dollars for each and every hare,
rabbit or squirrel so taken or killed, or by impris-
onment in the county jail for a period of one day
for each dollar of penalty imposed. /
A Labor-Saving Device.
Aunt Frances said to. her nephew one
ay : i
‘What will you do when you are a man,
Tommy ?”’
““I’11 grow a beard,” was the unexpected
reply.
“Why ?”’ she asked. : :
‘‘Because, then I won’t have nearly so
much face to wash,’’ said Tommy.—The
Little Chronicle, of Chicago.
. —One thing may be said in favor of the
wages of sin; they are never reduced.
“Ldves with a Broken Neck.
With a fractured vertebrze and a dislo-
cated neck, helpless from the attending
paralysis and occupying his favorite sitting
room window for thirteen years, William
Shemeley, of Ms. Holly, is one of the most
unique characters in New Jersey. The se-
clusion necessitated by this condition has
almost caused the young man to be drop-
ped from the recollection of his former
friends.
His case is the only one in that state
where a man is living with a broken neck.
It is a remarkable one from a medical
standpoint, and only by the sheerest good
luck is he alive to-day to tell of his un-
pleasant experience, his ‘organs of speech
being the only part of his body which is
not effected. ;
In June, 1889, Shemeley was a robust
boy, ever ready to engage in the sports and
amusements of the day. He assented toa
proposition to play on the lawn in the
rear of his home. Grasping an overhang-
ing limb of a stately pine tree he gradual-
ly drew himself up until his feet touched
the limb, when, in some manner, his hands
slipped, causing him to fall a distance of
four feet. He landed on his neck and lay
motionless.
The large lump on the back of the neck,
which forced the head tight to the chest,
plainly told of a dislocation, which was
found to be between the first and second
vertebre and a further examination dis-
Closed a fractured or split of another verte-
re.
Day after day he sits at the window at
his home in Mt. Holly, reading, -singing
and watching the crops, grow in the sur-
rounding fields. Through the efforts of his
father he has secured a liberal education,
and from the literature at his command be
is well posted.
Buried Wearing Red Necktie,
In a Business Suit Reading Lawyer Appeared in
His Coffin As in Life.
J. Howard Jacobs, one of the leading
criminal lawyers of eastern Pennsylvania,
who died at Reading a few days ago, was
buried wearing a red necktie. Many visit-
ors to the house of the dead lawyer inquir-
ed after the funeral why a light-colored bus
iness suit and a scarlet neck scarf were us-
ed instead of a shroud. A near friend of
the family explained as follows:
*‘Mr. Jacobs was best known to all the
people wearing a light-colored suit and a
red necktie. For this reason it was deem-
ed best to bury him in that attire, rather
than in ashroud,that makes dead men look
so very unnatural.
‘Mr Jacobs stated this fad a dozen years
ago, just after he had won an important
case in court. The evidence and the charge
of the court seemed against him, yet he un-
expectedly secured a verdict. During the
long trial he wore a red tie for the first time
in court. After the verdict one of the op-
posing lawyers said :
‘Jacobs, that tie of yours hoodooed the
jury. You had better keep it upiin all your
important cases.
‘“The lawyer took his advice, and ever
afterward when in a murder case or any
other important trial wore a flaring red tie
He never lost a case when wearing a red
tie, and as he has now gone to a Higher
Court, we all hope that with his red tie
on, he will not lose his case there.’’
Trees Arve Treasures.
Time changes all things and time is
changing the public and private estimate
of trees in this country. When the pio-
neers came upon a vast wilderness the trees
were as much opposed to their making com-
fortable livelihoods as were the copper-
skinned savages. They made war upon the
forests with more zeal than judgement;they
slaughtered and laid waste. With such be-
ginnings of the people their constituted an-
thorities have been slow to make Jaws for
the protection of mere trees, though grad-
ually the worth of the latter have come to
be understood by many. Old trees soon
will be held, as they should be, to be sa-
cred, and the young trees as something to
be encouraged, fostered and trained in the
way they should go. It is only afew years
since Dr. Marshall, of this State, astonich-
ed the public by bringing suit against a
telephone company for hacking branches
off some stately trees because they interfer-
ed with the stringing or proper insulation
of its wires. The courts sustained the doc-
tor’s contention that ancient trees are treas-
ures. The telephone company will not
soon forget the fact, for it was compelled
to pay smartly for the destruction it
wrought.— Pittsburg Post.
Edward Eggleston Dead.
Well-Known Author Passed Away at His Lake
George Home.
Edward Eggleston, the author, died at
his cottage on Lake George Thursday from
apoplexy. He was born at Vevay, Ind.,
December 10th, 1837. He entered the
Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1857 and
was a circuit rider in southeastern Indiana
and later for nine years in. Minnesota. In
1866-67 he was associate editor of the'‘Lit-
tle Corporal,” in Chicago; from 1867 to 1870
chief editor of the ‘National Sunday School
Teacher,’ and in 1870 editor of the New
York ‘‘Independent.” Ir 1870-72 he edited
the “Hearts and Home,’’ and from 1874 to
1879 was pastor of the Church of Christian
Endeavor in Brooklyn. . Retiring from; the
ministry, he devoted his life to literature.
He was the author of ‘‘Mr. Blake’s Walk-
ing Stick,’’ The Hoosier Schoolmaster,”
The end of the: World,” ?’The Mystery of
Metropohsville,?’, ’The Circuit Rider,’
“Roxy,’’ ‘“The Hoosier Schoolboy. ’’ ‘Queer
Stories,’’ ‘“The Graysons,” ‘‘History of the
United States and Its’ Poeple,”” “‘A First
Book of ‘American ‘History,’ ‘‘The Faith
Doctor” and ‘The Beginners of a Nation.’’
On September 14th, 1891, he married Fran-
ces E. Goode and has since resided at his
Lake George cottage. has IT
Petroienm Drinking.
Petroleum drinking as a habit is spread:
ing so rapidly in France that the’ Medical
Society of Paris advises immediate steps to
check it. The opinion formerly expressed
by many persons, that the habit was due
to the government’s increased tax on aleo-
hol; has been found ‘to be an error.’ An
investigation of the vice shows that it was
prevalent long before the alcohol tax was
imposed, and that it has been growing all
the time. Physicians do not agree as to
all the effects produced by it, but they do
agree as to its general harmfulness. The
victim of the habit does not become brutal,
as is so often the case with alcohol drink-
ers, but despondent and morose.
The Preacher and the Practitioner.
A short-sighted woman, who was ac-
quainted with twin brothers, one of whom
was a clergyman and the other a doctor,
congratulated the latter on his admirable
sermon. ‘‘Excunse me madam,’’was his re-
ply, ‘over there is my brother, who preach-
es; I only practice.” ;
“Phe Harvest Festival.
The Local Salvation Army Wants You to Make a
Harvest Thanksgiving Offering.
The Salvation Army, working indefatig-
ably the whole year ’round, believes never-
theless that there are times and seasons
which in their very nature are fitted for
special effort.
Thus after the summer is over when the
day of the penny-ice charity is past or
nearly past, when the fresh-air camps
and the country outings for slum mothers
and children are at the end, and before the
winter relief wagons begin their long and
pathetic round, in the cities just at the
dividing line of the seasons the army girds
itself fora great annual effort—the now
well-known Harvest Festival.
There is practically no gift of which the
army cannot make actual use : at this time
gifts of produce—fruits,vegetahles, poultry,
live stock, food in general, clothing, furni-
tare of every conceivable kind, agricultural
implements—in fine, anything in the world
that is either capable of use by The Army
or that may be sold by them.
Over 9,000 persons are nightly accommo-
dated in the army shelters, or rather
more than 2,500,000 per year. More than
450 fallen women are yearly rescued and
led to a life both of purity and usefulness,
while not far from 1,000 conversions are
brought about weekly by army ministra
tions. Considerably more than $250,000 are
expended yearly in the relief to. the poor
alone.
It is with the hope of meeting as much
as possible of these diverse and manifold
demands that the army holds each year
its Harvest Festival, and it is in full con-
fidence to public sympathy and approval
that the officers appeal to the people of this
locality for an expression of their gener-
osity. ;
The dates for Harvest Festival for Belle-
fonte are: September 13th to 19th.
No gief, no donation will come amiss,
but as a guide to generonsly disposed per-
sons, the following list may be said to com-
prise articles easily available.
Fruit, Tea,
Flowers, Coffee,
Canned Goods, Cocoa,
Yezatablen, Books,
Fish, Pictures,
Meat, Jewelry,
Chickens, ' Shoes,
Live Stock, Coal,
Corn, Wood,
Flour, Lumber,
Wheat, Shingles,
Oatmeal, Chairs,
Condensed Milk, Sheets,
Bread, Blankets,
Crackers, Cutlery,
Cheese Tools,
Furniture (new or used)
Clothing (new or second hand.)
The Hughesville Fair.
“Trixie,” the Pan American Attraction Will be Pres
ent—G@ood Racing.
The 32d annual fair of the Muncy valley
Farmers club, at Hughesville, Pa.. Sept.
23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th, promises to ex-
ceed all former exhibitions. The first day
will be for entries, and the next three days
will be a round of special amusements.
‘Trixie’ the celebrated trained horse
will be one of the attractions. This intel-
ligent animal was one of the leading fea-
tures of the midway at the Pan American
exposition last year. Other attractions
will be trained dogs, goats, birds, ete., to
gether with acrobatic sports.
There promises to he a large string of
fast horses to contest for the following
purse : 2:26 trot, 2:29 pace, purse $200;
2:13 trot, 2:16 pace, purse $300; 2:22 trot,
2:25 pace, purse $200; 2:17 trot, 2:20 pace,
purse $200; free for all, purse, $300.
Special rates have been secured on all
railroads.
Union County Fair.
Reduced Rates Via Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the benefit of persons desiring to at-
tend the Union County Fair, to be held at
Brook Park, near Lewisburg, Pa., Sep-
tember 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 266th, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell
excursion tickets from Bellefonte, Newber-
ry, East Bloomsburg, Mt. Carmel, and in-
termediate points, to Brook Park on Sep-
tember 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th, valid
to return until September 27th, inclusive,
at reduced rate (no less rate than 25 cents).
Special trains will ran on Thursday,
September 25th, and on Friday, Septem-
ber 26th, as follows: Leave Mifflinburg
12:00 noon, Vicksburg 12:08 P. M., Biehl
12:13 P. M.; arrive Brook Park 12:18 P.
M. Returning, leave Brook Park on Sep-
tember 25th for Coburn, on September
26th for Glen Iron and intermediate
stations at 5:45 P. M. Special trains will
be run on Thursday and Friday, Septem-
ber 25th and 26th, between Lewisburg and
Brook Park every half hour from 9:30 A.
M. to 5:30 P. M. © 44-36-26
Reduced Rates to Washington Via
bl Pennsylvania Railroad.
Account National Encampment, G. A. R.
, For the Thirty-sixth National Encamp-
ment, G. A. R., to be held at Washington,
D. C., October 6th to 11th, the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company will sell round-
trip tickets to Washington from all points
ou. its lines at rate of single fare for. the
round trip. Tickets will be on sale from
October 4th to 7th, inclusive. By deposit-
ing ticket with the joint agent at Wash:
ington between October 7th and 14th, and
the payment of 50 cents, an extension of
the return limit to November 3rd may be
obtained. :
‘For specific rates and further information
apply to nearest ticket agent. 47-34-26:
AFTER VACATION.—Just as it is harder
to set a ball in motion than to keep it in
motion, it is harder to take up any line of
work again,after the summer vacation, than
to keep on with it. tia :
“The effects of the strain are seen in chang-
ed ‘looks, diminished appetite and broken
sleep.: «1 10 | La 03
Now is the time when many-—clerks,
bookkeepers, teachers, pupils and others—
should take a tonic, and the best is Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which acts on the whole sys-
tem, builds it up and wards off sickness.
A Boy.
A boy usually knocks over five things in
passing through a room, and if he is par-
ticularly careful and tries not to he knocks
over ten.—Atchison Globe.
FORTUNE FAVORS A TEXAN.— ‘Having
distressing pains in head, back and stomach,
and being without appetite, I began to use
Dr. King’s New Life Pills.”” writes W. P.
Whitehead, of Kennedale, Tex., ‘‘ and soon
felt like anew man.’’ Infallible in stomach
and liver troubles. Only 25 cents at Green’s
Drug Store.
—The man of learning knows too much
to be everlastingly boasting about it.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Many persons are troubled with the hair
turning gray prematurely and a remedy is
eagerly sought for. This tendency is often
hereditary and it is not uncommon to see
men and women with gray hair at thirby-
five or forty. One of the best hair restora-
tives which is easy prepared and not ex-
peunsive,is composed of one ounce each sug-
ar of lead, borax and lac sulphur, one half
ounce aqua ammonia and one gill of alco-
hol. Mix and let it stand all night, then
add one gill bay rum, one teaspoonful of
common table salt one pint of soft water.
Apply it oncea day. This invigorator will
darken red hair,and if the hair fol'cles are
not dead, will induce a new growth after
the bair has fallen out.
Comb and brush the bair in its natural
direction. Choose combs of bone, rubber
or tortoise shell, with teeth that are not too
sharp, as it irritates the scalp and causes
dandruff.
Fruits, particularly luscious bunches of
grapes, are to be quite a favored garniture
for winter chapeaux. Three groups of three
rows each is the latest style stitching for
the bottom of a rainy-day skirt. Fancy
shoulder collars are a feature of many of
the smartest autumn top coats.. Demure
little low collars of finest needle work are
very swagger in neckwear. Belts are much
wider in the back, but drawn to almost
nothingness in the front. The box pleat is
one of the most prominent fashion features
of the dress world just now. The new bell
sleeve in used mostly for fancy coats for
winter wear.
" Linen collars are once more in vogue.
They are returning to favor with the new
shirt waists. In Paris they are seen more
frequently than the stock, which was once
the favorite. Next year the style will be
as popular as it was several seasons ago.
The collar hae regular little turnover ef-
fects finished with openwork or embroidery
peculiarly its own. The tarnover may be
pointed in front; it may becurved and scal-
loped, and in all other ways imitate its soft
linen or lawn prototype.
For stout people comes a collar especial-
ly built for them. They are very low and
the essence of comfort. They have the lit-
tle turnovers also, hemstisched or embroid-
ered, and very fascinating bits of neckwear
are they.
Those who like the little cuffs to match
are buying two collars of the same pattern,
using one for the neck, and cutting the
other in two in the centre and thus making
a pair of dainty cuffs.
For some reason or other the skirts that
women have worn have been called walk-
ing skirts, when in reality they were golf
or rainy-day skirts—turned up at the bot-
tom and stitched several times around.
The new skirts are as far away from that
as can be imagined. They escape the ground
when you walk, but they are of fine cloth-
es— novelties, broadecloths, Venetian,chev-
iots—the stuffs we use to make into the
finest dress skirts, and the styles are like
dress skirts except that there are no trains.
There are a good many English and Scotch
stuffs—worsteds,tweeds, homespuns—used
in these.
Some have 21 gores—which is new—and
the gores lie so close together at the top
that no one gore seems more thana half-inch
or an inch in breadth. Slot seams are used
a good deal. Last year we called them
French seams, and the effect is very strik-
ing indeed, particularly when there is a
color under them.
There is a very pretty black skirt shot
with white—the maker calls it Queen’s
Morning, but that doesn’t describe it, for
it is more like some of the Paris novelties
which will be brought in, in tailor-made
suits, than like anything English.
There is a seven-gored pinstriped skirt
of all-wool stuffs,
Box gores are a new feature.
One cup sugar, half cup of milk half
gill of molassas and half of a vanilla bean.
Put all over the fire together, boil ten min-
minutes, or until a little dropped into
ice water is brittle. If the vauilla bean is
not to be obtained, add to the fudge two
teaspoonfuls vanilla extract just before if
is taken from the fire,
Pleats run the whole gamut of dressdom!
There are pleated hows for shoes and there
are plaited bows for hats.
Betwixt and between these two extremes
there are a most bewildering lot of pleats,
pleats stitched and pleats loose, pleats sin-
gle, double, triple and quadruple. Sleeves
are pleated, so are bodices, coat-tails, and
skirts. Whole costumes are pleated, or a
clever little scheme in pleats crops up here
and there in a rig.
Beyond all doubt, pleats are graceful.
Farthermore they hide the clock work of
seams that go to make the perfectly fitted
dress, giving it a look of ease and simplic-
ity, when it reality it is a net-work of sar-
torial shoals of which the amateur had best
beware.
Horseradish root or nasturtinm seeds will
keep the vinegar in which pickles are put
up from becoming muddy.
A pinch of borax in cooked starch will
make the clothes stiffer and whiter.
A spoonful of vinegar put into the water .
in which meats or fowl are boiled makes
them tender. ! : ' .
A pillow of red clover blossoms will, if
is said, be found soothing to persons who
suffer from nervous headache. :
As autumn approaches the tendency to-
ward the full piece suit is noticed. It is a
mark of elegance to have a skirt and waist
that match, and shirt waists are sold to
match ‘skirts and ‘skirts to match shirt
waists. This is particularly practicable in
the checks and many are the little suits that
can be hastily gotten together in such lines
as these. :
* ‘But the woman who wants to have her
suit all made up new, off the one piece of
goods, waist and skirt and sleeves and all,
without trusting to chance bargains, can
find many pretty modes upon which to pat-
tern her new gown. The double-breasted
waist is very much seen, or the waist which
gives you the wide double-breasted look;
and it is well in making a gown to study
these modes, for they are to beso very much
the vogue this fall.
Waists that fasten in the back will be
worn,and in this connection it can be stated
that, by the new way of cutting and the
bustoning of these waists with large but-
tons, the nuisance attending these waists is
much abated. You can really button your
own waist without trusting to your friends
for assistance; and, so, as the waist that
buttons in the back is pretty and becom-
ing, an extended vogue for it is predicted.
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