Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1906. EE ————————————————————— PEPYS AS A PLAYGOER. The Time When Women First Ape peared on the English Stage. with many most important innovations which seriously affected the presenta- tion of Shakespeare on the stage. The chief was the substitution of women for boys in female roles. During the first few months of Pepys’ theatrical experience boys were still taking the wom a's parts. That the practice sur- vived in the first days of Charles IL’ reign we know from the well ecdote that when the king sent the scenes to inquire why the play “Hamlet,” which he had come to was so late in commencing he swered that the queen shaved. But in the opening mon 1661, within five months of visit to a theater, the reign of ended. On Jan. 3 of that year writes that he “first saw women upon the stage.” Next night he makes entry of a boy's performance of a wo- man's part, and that is the final record of boys masquerading as women in the English theater. I believe the prac- tice now survives nowhere except in SE: §8cisde i dents of Elizabethan drama. dificult to imagine what boys in Shakespeare's day, if they were any- thing like boys of our own day, made of such parts as Lady Macbeth or Cleopatra. Before, howayer, Pepys saw Shakespeare's work on the stage the usurpation of the boys was over. It was after the Restoration, too, that scenery, rich costume and scenic ma- chinery became, to Pepys’ delight, reg- ular features of the theater. When { the diarist saw “Hamlet” “done with | scenes” for the first time he was most favorably impressed. Musical accom- paniment was known to prerestora- tion days, but the orchestra was now for the first time placed on the floor of the house in front of the stage instead of in a side gallery. The musical ac- companiment of plays developed very rapidly, and the methods of opera were applied to many of Shakespeare's pleces, notably to “The Tempest” and “Macbeth.” —From “Pepys and Shake- speare,” by Sidney Lee, in Fortnightly Review. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. How soon we learn that the average man’s bark is about al’ there is to him. ‘When people say anything good about you, ever notice what a few are pres- ent? We all of us claim to be natural, but we all of us know that the only time when we are not putting on is when we are asleep. Somehow the hundred dollars some other man has always looks larger and as if it should go further than the hun- dred dollars you have. There are not many sights more de- pressing than to meet a farmer's wag- on on a country road going out from town with a coffin in it. When a man says he got up nine times with the baby six nights in sue- cession it means that one night he woke up and heard his wife get up.— Atchison Globe. Hawaiian Huckleberry. kleberry (Vaccinium reticulatum), which the natives consider sacred to Pele, the goddess who is supposed to preside over the famous crater of Kilauea, and which, together with white pigs and chickens, are thrown by them into the g boiling red lake during an eruption appease the wrath of the aggressive dame and thus cause the rivers of lava to cease flowing on their destructive course. These berries grow in on low bushes right on the very of ‘he brimstone beds and are merous that a bushel may be gathered in half an hour. In ance they somewhat resemble a berry, and the flavor is pleasantly gestive of grapes, ; : g : i The Word “Expire.” . “Expire” in its literal sense is breath- ing out. Inspiration and expiration to- gether constitute respiration. Izaak ‘Walton observed that “if the inspiring or expiring organ of any animal be stopt it suddenly dies.” The Romans spoke of “breathing out” the breath of life instead of “dying,” by way of euphemism, just as they sald “Vixit” (he has lived) Instead of “he is dead.” CLOTHES IN KOREA. Changed According to the Calendsy and Not the Weather. A characteristic of the Koreans which has helped to their undoing as of the day. may be soft and balmy, pads out his white garments with six or seven thicknesses of cotton wadding, until the thin man becomes a fat man and the stout party swells up to such enor- mous size as to block up the streets when he walks, or, rather, rolls, abroad. Again, though spring and early sum- mer may have come and the heat pre- vailing be almost tropical, the Korean swelters about in his wadded clothing in perspiring veneration of his heredi- tary calendar.—New York Herald. TREACHEROUS RIVER BEDS. A Homesteader's Outfit When Canght In the Quicksands. The “mover’s” wagon, canvas covered and travel worn, is always picturesque. The traveling home for a family and all their worldly goods, from furniture to poultry, is still a familiar sight on western roads. The spirit of dissatis- faction and longing for newer fields that jurks under that broad brimmed hat is a spark of the same fire that has been the theme of our history. By some stream under the cottonwoods of an evening you may sometimes see this half gypsy, and the fire, with its ac companying smell of bacon and beans or the song and accordion, will suggest as you drive by why the roving has al- ways its fascinations. There are, however, the long dusty days of travel and sore backed horses, the occasional swollen fords, and al- ways present, though seldom encoun- tered, are the quicksands of the dry bottom streams. They are indistin- guishable and silent. The shallow rib- bons of water flow over them as over all the rest of the river bed, but once fairly in their grasp there is a remorse- less, certain settling, which a struggle only hastens and which ends in an ever- lasting disappearance. Cattle and horses are caught in it oftenest, and, if seen in time, can be pulled out with a rope and horse, but into its hungry maw have gone horses, wagons and men, and even a locomotive, going through a bridge, has been known to disappear in this bottomless mystery.— Allen True in Outing. Royal Gamblers, The fascination which games of chance have exercised over gentle and simple is well {illustrated in the de- scription by Stow of the entertainment given by Henry Picard, mayor of Lon- don, in 1357, when the kings of France and Scotland, being prisoners in Eng- land, and the king of Cyprus on a visit to Edward IIL, the mayor “kept his hall against all comers that were will- ing to play at dice and hazard. The Lady Margaret, his wife, did keepe her chamber to the same intent.” The mayor, having won 50 marks from the king of Cyprus, returned him the mon- ey, saying, “My lord and king, be not aggrieved, for I covet not your gold, but your play.”—Chambers' Journal. A Divided Sentiment. Little Agnes is twelve years old. She is a poetess. She has, maybe, a sense of humor and, positively, she did not like her stepmother. On the latter's birthday the youthful rhymer put forth all her powers to please the lady who had usurped her own mother's place. The quatrain ran as follows: I thank you for your love And hope God will reward you HH HE : E | § : E "| Nile. Wherever they come They Are a Separate People, a Tribe Quite by Themselves, “Such as wake on the night and sleep on the day and haunt taverns and ale houses and no man wot from whence they come nor whither they go.” So quaintly describes an old English stat- ute against the gypsies. Ever since the year 1530, says a writer in the London name indicates, but their origin ed farther east than the are a separate people, a tribe themselves, were hanged. “But what numbers were executed,” says one old writer, “yet notwith- in that country and in England legisla- tion proved quite ineffectuai. The acts gradually fell into desuetude. Under George IV. all that was left of the ban against the gypsies was the mild law that any person “telling ‘fortunes shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond.” “Gypsies are no longer a proscribed class,” says a recent writer. | the modern gypsy does little evil be- yond begging and petty theft, but his determination not to work Is as strong as ever, and it seems curious tha industrial people like ours continues tolerate a horde of professional idlers. How numerous the horde is may be gathered from the fact that the number who wintered in Surrey one year was estimated at 10,000. The language as well as the the gypsy tribe has a tenacity own. Many of their words have firm hold in a half slang, half sibly way. Shaver is the for child. Pal is pure means a man. Cutting up is quarreling, and cove stands fellow.” SE 3 ‘3 gigs g £ NOTES. A note given by a minor is void. Notes bear interest only when so stated. Altering a note in any manner by the holder makes it void. It is not legally necessary to say on a note “for value received.” If a note is lost or stolen it Goes not release the maker. He must pay it. "THE GYPSIES. | : : as to form patterns on the yellow mats, —Blackwood’'s Magazine. Faneral Customs In Greece. Many funeral customs in Greece are unique. The body of an unmarried girl is always dressed as a bride, the com- mone saying being, “She is married to death.” The body of a boy is always dressed as a sailor. Women never ac- company funerals to church or to the graves. Processions are always on foot, We never know what we can do un- til we are put to the test by some great emergency or tremendous responsibili- ty. When we feel that we are cut off from outside resources and must de- pend absolutely upon ourselves we can fight with all the force of desperation. —8uccess Magazine, A Race of Genealogists, Some one said of the Welsh in the eighteenth century every old woman was a genealogist, This is still true, for no race is truer to type, more reten- tive of national characteristics.—Lon- don Outlook. ~——Take Vin-te-na and the good effect will be immediate. You will get strong, yo will feel bright, fresh and active, you will feel new, rich blood cunrsi through your veins, Vii-te-na will act like magio, will put new life in yon. If not benefited money refunded. All droguists. Business Notice. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought ys Bears the Signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. An indorser has a right of action against all whose names were previ- ously on a note indorsed by Lim. WHAT IS CASTORIA Castoria isa ] Satteria. a harmless substitute for Cas. snd Soothing cf Opium. Morphine. nt oer areal ce Ia Dh and Wad Ge Here {ind hier 8 Sains firine Healthy aoa wat Weep "hc THE KIND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT Bears the Signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Centanr Company, New York City. siraim \ SEEN TIONS JDANGER IN DELAY, KIDNEY DISEASES ARE T00 DANGEROUS FOR BELLEFONTP i & 2s i y sg ii i] I i ; : Medical. | Ponts Hi sUProsTToRY Di rapa Supt, Graded Schosis, all you m for them.” Dr. 4 Devore, EE nad no to_equal > 50 cents, Free, gists, and in by C. M. RUDY, Lancaster, Pa, Groceries. SECHLER & CO. PURE FOOD STORE. We carry a full line of all goods in the line of Foods and Fine Groceries. MANHATTAN DRIPS A fine Table Syrup in one qoart, two quart and four quart tin pails, at 120., 250., and 450. per pail; try is. Maple Syrup in glass hottles and tin cans. NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES The finest new crop New Orleans—a riok golden yellow and an elegant bak- er. That is the report our customers bring to us. Fine Sugar Syrups—no glucose. MARBOT WALNUTS. These Nuts are clean and sound, heavy in the meats and in every way very satisfactory. We bave some very wood California Walnuts but not equal to the Marbots. Fine Almonds and Mixed Huts. EVAPORATED FRUITS, Peaches 100., 120., 150. and 180. per pound. Apricots 15¢., 180. and 20. per pound. Prunes So., 80., 100. and 120. per pound. Raisins 100. and 1%. per pound, either seeded or unseeded. Currants 100. and 120. per pound. Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel. Dates, Figs snd fine Table Raisins. All these goods are well worth the prices named on them and will give good satisfaction. MINCE MEAT. The foundation of our Mince Meat is good sound lean beef, and all ofher ingredients are the highest grade of goods. It represents our best effort and our customers say it is a success, and at 12}o. per pound is very reason- able in price. FOREIGN FRUITS. We are now receiving some of the finest California Naval Oranges and Florida bright and sweet fruits. This fruit is just now reaching ite very fin- est flavor. They are exceptionally fine and ab reasonable prices. Lovers of Grape Fruit can be nicely suited on the fruit we have. Lemons for some time past have been a diffionit proposi- tion, but we now have some fine fruit. SECHLER & CO. Pure Food and Fine Groceries. 49-1 BELLEFONTE, PA. Green's Pharmacy. Fl Bl Bo AM dBc NM SAM. » P.EEPER Twelve years ago ground black pep- per was selling here at 40c. the Ib, — and not the best at that. We thought we could save our customers money by buying in large quantities, direct from the men who imported and ground it—packing it in pound pack- ages ourselves—we did so, buying Singapore Pepper, and for five years sold it to you at 15¢ the Ib.—then ft ad- vanced to 20c. For the past three years we have sold it for 220., itis sifted free from stems and dirt before WT TTT TN TW Tr PURE SINGAPORE PEPPER The price is still 220. the pound—we invite your trade for pure spices. GREEN'S PHARMACY 00., Bush House Block, BELLEFONTE, 44-26-1y = ll Bc tl, Be Ae Br AR 0 Brel Beet, Be 0 nc Mca Mca Bes Bea. Pon, Beal Be AD A Bead, if YOTTYYTTeYWTTYPTTY YT YTYYTTY PATENTS. ascertain our pric bg Bg Re q vention is patentatle. Communications Writs comtaono! Hanavook on patents sent free. Oldest 361 Broanway, Buuxen Orme, 628 F or VW asmmor, Insurance. Look! BEAD JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successors to Grant Hoover.) FIRE, LIFE, AxD ACCIDENT INSURANCE. This Agency revresents the Fire Insurance Companies ra ~—~NO ASSESSMENTS, —~— Do not fail to give us a eall before insuring your Life or Lr hig are in position to Office in Orider's Stone Building, 43-18-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. Benefits : $5,000 death by acciden 5,000 Joss of both fae": 5,000 loss of both hands, 5,000 loss of one hand and one foot, 2,500 loss of either hand, 2,500 loss of either foot, Orne. YSal disability NC — limit 26 weeks. ity: FIRE INSURANCE I invite your Mieativn to my fire ve Line of Solid Companies represented any agency in Central ai H. E. FENLON, 50-21 Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. Saddlery. 10 PER CENT. REDUCTION ——— ON ALL GOODS SOLD—WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT THE COUNTY SEAT —— Yon can combine business with easure, and make the trip or itself. You will save more than your expenses by calling as SCHOFIELD'S HARNESS FACTORY and purchase that we are now offer All leather a very AND HEAVY— i I il i 8 £ 2 2 i i g it g JAMES SCHOFIELD, Spring street, BEDLEFONTE PA. A ———————— Flour and Feed. Cres Y. WAGNER, di A
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