ss Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 26, 1906. A GIFTS TO JOCKEYS. Queer Rewards and Reminders That Come to the Riders. One of the greatest of living jockeys has a most remarkable collection of tributes from admirers, unknown and otherwise, It contains, among other strange things, pawn tickets, writs and summonses contributed by unsuccess- ful backers of his mounts, talismans of all kinds to bring him luck in races, serinons and tracts for his itual welfare, recipes for all kinds aflments, from coughs to a tendency to corpulence, forms for insuring ngainst accidents, offers of marriage, iccompanied by bundles of photo- graphs of would be wives, welshers’ tickets and a pair of wornout boots with the legend: “All that is left of them after walking from York to Lon- don. Backed all your mounts.” A few years ago, after his horse had lost an important race, a well known turfman went up to the jockey and made him a formal and public pres- entation of a sliver snuffbox, saying that if he would look inside he would gee the kind of horse he ought to ride in future. The jockey opened the box and found in it half a dozen fat snails, It was the same satirical owner who on another occasion presented his jock- ey with a sumptuous casket, which on being opened disclosed a wooden spoon, and to a third jockey who had failed to win an important race he handed a pair of crutches bought from a beg- gar on the course. When John Singleton, a’ clever jock- ey of nearly two centuries ago, first won a race in Yorkshire the farmer whose horse he had ridden to victory was so delighted with his achievement that he made him a present of a ewe, whose offspring soon mustered a round dozen, and really started the ex-shep- herd lad on his career as a jockey. Singleton was very proud of and grate- ful for his singular fee, In this respect he furnished a great contrast to a well known jockey who when a check for $1,500 was handed to him by the owner of a horse on which he had won 2a race crumpled it up con- temptuously, with the remark that he had “often received more for riding a two-year-old.” —Chicago News, is a POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When a man is loaded you always know it, but it's different with a gun. Keep telling a boy he never will amount to anything, and he generally won't. A six weeks’ engagement will put a lot of conceit into a man, but six min- utes of married life are sufficient to take it out. It is wonderful how many have watches considering how few there are in the world to whom time really seems to be of any value. Perhaps a man's eyesight grows poor- er with the years as a mereiful way | of preventing him from seeing his | wrinkles and gray hairs, i We suppose a man is called “wo- man's protector” for the reason that | be protects her from others imposing upon her, preferring to do it all him- self.— Atchison Globe. - 2 “ay § Praising the Lazy nn . It must be admitted that some of the best work that has lived has been | done by indolent men. This is espe- clally true as regards literature. The finest description of a sunrise was written by the poet Thomson in bed. Coleridge was one of the most indolent of men, yet his work is, of its kind, unaporoached. One of the most im- portant improvements in the steam en.. gine was due to the indolence of James Watt. Many other examples might be quoted; but, as a general rule, it is fairly correct to say that work which is the outcome of meditation or pro- longed observation is best performed by people whose natural indolence makes them careless of the strife and bustle in which an active temperament would tend to merse them.—Pear- son's — : Nerve of a Slowaway. The captain of a Mediterranean liner ‘was talking about stowaways. wa oat ne those fellows,” he said, “have an excessive quantity of cheek— of brass, Once we discovered a stow- away a few days out from New York .and put him to work in the galley. A lady on a tour of inspection paused ! ! by the stowaway 0s he St peeling po-| 4p, soras vpnsttne. tatoes. em « sfIow soon do you think we'll reach Naples? she said to him. « yell, madam,’ he replied, ‘I'm do- ing all I can to get her in by Tues- day.’ ”" — orig An Affidavit. The suggestion of an English barris- ter that a certain maticr was a proper subject for oral examination, not for affidavit, agreed with the emphatic opinion of an Engiish justice recently retired. le was once trying a case at the Manchester assizes in which a man had been cross examined upon an a davit. Summing up the evidence t jury, the judge said, “Gentlemen, of all the weapons in the whole armory of in- fquity there is nothing to equal an af- fidavit for concealing the truth.” a. a Arm Didn't Need To. “It's too bad,” sald the judge caustic: ally, “that the defendant should have chosen you for counsel. You know nothing about law." “Well, your honor,” repued the young lawyer, “I don't nead to in this court.” —Philade'nhiia Press, DARING WILD BRUTES. fhe Panthers of India and How They Secure Their Prey. In certain parts of India the panther is named “bipat,” which means calam- ity, for he is an ever present scourge among the people. His proper name is tendwa, It is the habit of these pan- thers for a family of them to quarter themselves on a circle of villages with- in convenient distance of their nightly prowlings. As soon as the sun is below the horizon they sally forth from the cover of the surrounding forests and watch the paths by which the village herds and flocks return to their resting places. If a meal cannot be secured then, later on they enter a village and patrol the dark lanes in tke boldest wianper. Nothing comes amiss to them that is not too large and heavy for their strength. Children, dogs, goats and the young cattle are their favorite quarry. They are bold enough to dash into a hut even with a lignt burning in it, seize their prey, then rush away vgth lightning speed and, with a noisciessness that is marvelous, retreat with their prize to the nearest cover and there devour it. In the morning the poor villager, following the tracks of the retreating animal, soon arrives at the few re- mains of his goat or calf or maybe his ~hild. In the following way the natives get their revenge: A stray dog is caught in the village and is tied out on the path generally frequented by the panther family. The bait is carried off during the night and devoured close by. Next day a machan (platform) is fixed in a convenient tree, and in the evening a kid is tied on the spot occupied by the dog on the previous night. The sports- man settles himself in the machan be- fore sunset and begins his watch. Terrified by his lonely position, the kid begins a frantic bleating, which soon attracts the panther marauders, which are skulking about near the spot where they found their last meal. A short stalk soon brings them to the kid and directly under the concealed sportsman, who shoots the beasts. It is impossible to follow the panthers into the impenetrable cover they fre- | quent, and they never show themselves | in daylight.—Chicago News. | Engiish as She Is Written. | The publication which was once | brought out in Portugal bearing the | title “English as She Is Spoke” has for | a long time enjoyed a worldwide repu- | tation. Tourists on the continent of | Europe sometimes come across exam- | ples of English quite as curious as that | of the Portuguese author, i In the bedroom of a hotel at Genoa the following notice was found: “The lamentations of the waiters are obliged to be made at the bureau.” It was in a hotel also, and not a church, that the following request was made in writ- ing: “Visitors are prayed into dinner when the bell rings, that they may not disturb the order of the service.” There is a hotel advertisement in Calais sta- tion to the following effect: “Quite a peculiar animation resides at this fash- fonable spot of Paris. In the rear the grand opera of a splendid architecture on one side of the Grand hotel, entirely made afresh and in 2a more extensive way, is the weeting of all strangers of distinction.” Finally, this curious leg- end has recently been seen on a notice board on a garden wall in Jersey, one of the Chanuel islands: “Any dog found in this garden the proprietors of the dog paid one pound sterling for each times." a —— Easing the Pressure. “Mr, Kiljordan,” sald the young man with the bill, “would it be convenient for you to"— “No, it wouldn't!” stormily inter- rupted Kiljordan, looking up with blood in his eye. “You addie pated idiot, don't you know enough not to in- terrupt a man when he's at work? The payment of this installment isn't due till tomorrow anyhow, you dad- dinged lunkhead! For half a cent I'd throw you out of the window. Take your gumdasted face out of here or rn"m- The terrified youth waited to hear no more. He darted out through the door and made for the stairway, down which he went three steps at a time, “What ails you, Kiljordan?” asked the man at the other desk. “Why did you try to scare that boy half to death?” “I've no grudge against the boy,” he answered, turning to his work, “but I couldn't swear at the woman with the gentle manner and the neighborhood charity scheme who buzzed me for half an hour before he came in, and I had to let out on somebody.”—Chicago Tribune, _.- ! Many years ago Bill Smith was a well known character in a Missouri town whose name need not be mention- ‘ed here. Bill was a colored boy who roamed the streets at will. One day he found a pocketbook containing $40, and the owner's name was stamped on the book. “= AFAR Sle But Bill burned the pocketbook and spent the $40 in riotous living. Of course it was found out, and Bill was arrested, tried, found guilty and sent to the penitentiary for two years. He served his time, and when he emerged kngw s mething a ut making shoes. day be feigen o his home an old acquaintance met him and asked: “Well, what did they put you at in the prison, Bill?” “Dey started in to make an honest boy out’'n me, sah,” : “That's good, Bill, and I hope they succeeded.” “Dey did, sah.” “And how did they teach you to be honest, Bill?” “Dey done put me dn de shoe y sah, nailin’ pasteboard onter shoes soles, sah.” SLAVERY IN ENGLAND. in 1772 It Was That the Courts De- clared It to Be Illegal. In 1772 slavery was declared by the judges to be contrary to the law of England. But during the years im- mediately preceding this date slaves were commonly sold in England. In the previous year a Birmingham paper advertised for sale “a negro boy, sound, healthy and of mild disposi tion,” while in the same year another paper records (and condemns) the sale a short time previously at Richmond of a negro boy for £32, This is be- lieved to have been the last actual sale of a slave that took place in England. White slavery was very common in the English colonies in the seventeenth century. Cromwell seized Irish boys, girls and women “by the thousand” and “sold them in the slave markets of Barbados,” as may be seen in num- berless places in the state papers of the period. Ile treated some of his royaiist opponents in England and Scotland in the same way. A similar fate befell many of the supporters of Moninouth's rebellion in the west of England, In thie latter case, ns Maeaulay tells us, the ladies of the court, including the queen, made large profits on the sales. —London Standard. Smiil: a Greek God. In the graoumar department of one of our public scliools the teacher, after talking with Ler class on the subject of mythology, read to them as follows: “Yulean, smith, architeet and chariot builder for the gods of Mount Olym- pus, built their houses, constructed their furniture,” etc. The following day the subject of the preceding day was given as a language lesson, and as no mention was made of Vulcan the teacher asked the class who built the Louse: for the gods of Mount Olym- pus. For awhile the children seemed to be lost in deep thought, when sud- denly a gleam of intelligence illumi- nated the face of one little girl, and she replied: “I can't think of his first name, but his last name is Smith.,”—Magnzine of Fun. Seven Days In a Year, At the examination of puplis in a primary school the inspector put ques- tions at random to the scholars. Among the latter was a towheaded lad who on being asked how many days there are in a year answered, “Seven.” When the tittering of the rest of the class sub- sided the inspector remarked: “I said a year, not a week. Now, try again. How many days are there in a year?” The lad appeared nonplused and vex- ed for a moment, then ejaculated: “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday; just seven, If there's others I never heard of em.” ~ London Mail. Patience is the support of weakness; Her Contribution. Visiting Philanthropist—Good morn- ing, madam. I am collecting for the Drunkards’ nome. Mrs. MeGuire— Shure I''m glad of it. sor. If ye come around tonight yez can take my hus. band —Harper's Weekly. When They Cut Their Beards. In France Henry IV. was the last monarch who wore a beard. and he had a fine one, He was succeeded by a beardless minor, in compliment to whom the courtiers shaved all their beards except the mustaches. The sue- cession of "nother minor confirmed the custom, and ultimately the mustaches also disappeared. The Spaniards, more tarlily infuenced by French example, kept their beards until the French and Eaglish were beginning to relinquish even must.ches, Perhaps they would have kent the cherished appendage, but a Freuch privee, Philip V., succeeded to the Spanish throne with a shaved chin. The courtiers with heavy hearts imitated (he prince, and the people with still heavier hearts imitated the courtiers. The popular feeling on the subject, Lowever, remains recorded in the provesh, “Since we have lost our beards we have lost our souls.” Why Babies Suck Thelr Thumbs, Sucking is a uatural stimulant for babies. A very young baby tries to get the whole hand in its mouth, but, find- ing this fraught with danger, he grows more cautious and finally falls on the thumb as the most enticing member of the hand. Sucking the thumb acts as a safe pick me up to laggard organs. The beneficial effect arising from the act of degiutition is one of nature's happiest stimulants. It is generaliy melancholy and fretful children rather than those who are strong and full of life who develop decided tendencies in this direction. The reason of this is ev- ident. In states of depression, whether casual or chronie, less blood goes to the brain; if, then, the thumb be put into the mouth and a sucking process indulged in the heart will be stimulat- ed, new blood will be sent to the brain and contentment will take the place of peevishness, “Home, Sweet Home.” “Home, Sweet Home,” Payne's song, was originally a number in the opera “Clari, the Maid of Milan,” a produc- tion brought out in 1823. The opera was a failure, and nothing is now known of it save the one song, which became instantly popular, Over 100, 000 copies were sold in the first year of its publication, and the sale in one form or another has been constant ever since the first appearance of this beautiful theme. The melody is a Sicilian folk song and was adapted to the words by Payne himself, Trouble, The fellow who “borrows trouble” always has on hand enough to start a THE AMBER HARVEST. Work of the Waders and the Divers of the Baltic Sea. The poor people who earn a precari- ous livelihood by gathering amber on the shores of the Baltic sea work only in the roughest weather. When the wind blows in from the sea, as it often foes with terrific violence, the bowlders are tossed and tumbled at the bottom and great quantities of sea wrack are washed up on the beach. This is the harvest of the waders, for hidcen in In other parts of the coast divers go crawling on the bottom of the sea for the lumps of amber hidden in seaweed and under rocks. It is believed that once a great pine forest flourished here where the great billows roll and that amber is the gum exuded from the trees, of which not a vestige remains, The finds ere very variable. The lar- gest piece known, weighing eighteen pounds, is in the Royal museum in Ber- lin. The usual finds range from lumps as big as a man’s head to particles like grains of sand. The larger pieces are found jammed in rocks or in tangles of marine vegetation. Divers work from .four to five hours a day in all seasons, except when the sea is blocked with ice. The work is so arduous that they are bathed in perspiration even in’ the coldest weather. For all their grinding toll the Samland natives are happy in their way and increase and multiply as in more favored regions of the earth. Art Critles and Art. Some one was to he married, for they were buying a wedding gift in a cer- tain east side store, bearing that man- ner of having money to spend, which will inevitably assure the attention of the shopwoman. A certain painting, rainbow hued and inclosed in a large gilt frame, had attracted their atten- tion. It was $1.69. “What is it?" asked one, peering closely. “It is an oil painting,” answered the saleswoman, “It has no name on it,” announced the first woman, with an air of having found out what was wrong with the work of art. “The best artists never sign their tvork, ma'am.” “Are you sure it is hand painted?” “Certainly, ma'am.” It will hang on the wall of one bride's home.—Brooklyn Eagle. New Advertisements. OARDING.—Parties visiting Phila- delphia can have first-class board and all accommodations six squares from business centre of city. Terms $1.25 and $1.50 per day. Special rates by the week. Mus. E. EDWARDS, —- . lend it for | (Formerly of Bellefonte,) 1606 Green, St., iSpatieres 1s the ruln of strength.— Boom factory. Try ing 10-38-1y* Philadelphia Shoes, Shoes. — EE A NEW YEAR'S NEWS The people all are satisfied, "Tis best to use what has been tried; And so you'll find them by the score Buying Shoes where they've bought before. And hundreds of others, the rich and poor, Are finding their way to this popular store. For dress, the famous ¢“Walk-Over Shoe’’; For Medium grade the ¢“Bilt-Well"’ will do; For wear and tear, the ‘‘Watsontown,”’ The “‘Dayton,’’ too, of wide renown; All ladies ““The Dorothy Dodd'' admire, And of the ‘‘Julia Marlowe'’ never tire; There are other Shoes that merit attention, But the names are quite too numerous to mention. Many nice things besides Shoes you'll see, But these they don't sell—they are given you free. There are Phonographs, Mirrors and Curtains of lace Pictures, Clocks, and Rugs to fit every place; Silverware, Dishes and Lamps and Chairs, And hundreds of premiums of different wares. All these we have mentioned and many more Are given to those whe buy at this store, In reading this over vou surely must sce Th edvantage in buying where you get so much FREE. So YEAGER & DAVIS invite you to call, For their line is the best after all. THE SHOE MONEY SAVERS BELLEFONTE, Pa. 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WILLIAMS, High street, BELLEFONTE, PA ILES A cure guaranteed if you use bray SETS ILE SUEPUSURY Statesville, N.C , Wi tos: ot oan tay they do 1 claim for them.” Dm, 8. M. Devore, Rar Rock, W, Va, writes: “7 ve uni. versal satisfaction.” Dr, H. D, McGill, Clarks. burg, Tenn, writes: “In a practice of 23 years 1 have found no remedy to equal re.” HE 8, and in on! . M. Call for Free VT 50.22-1y MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster, Pa, Money to Loan. M?° and 10 104A hg see J. M. KEICHLINE, S-14-1vr. Att'y at Law, Travelers Guide. F. H. THOMAS, Supt. Travelers Guide. RAILROAD OF PENNA. Time Table effective Nov. 6, 1905, & — ¢ | § a, am. m. Ar.|p. mM. |p. Mm. ja m. Ei To 40," 20] 46 721716 9 9% 7 26ir7 21 fo al 18s biked 7 39/17 33 fo 909 7 4sley do fo HE 781% 48 0 8 or 7 53i(7 &€ fs 8 54 757) 7 5% 8 8 51 sol 750 ifs 8 46 807 8 174 8 40 810! 8 07 — ml ile 5 815/81 MILL HALL 8 1048 33 (N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R.) = B www 10 20} ¢ 02l........NEW YORK........ 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