ET , Ta Democracy aca ELLE Ss Bellefonte, Pa., November 23, 1906. SE ———————————————— THE TRADE RAT. ©44 Ways of This Peculiar Little California Rodent, One of the oddest little animals in existence is the California wood rat, better known as the “trade rat” It owes the latter name to the fact that, though it is a great thief, it never steals anything without putting something ¢lse in its place. It is said that a paste pot which had been left overnight in the assay office of a silver mine in that state was found in the morning with the oddest collection of rubbish. This was the work of trade rats. They had stolen the paste and left in exchange a piece of stick, a length of rope, some odds and ends of wire and an unbroken glass funnel. The object of the trade rat in so scrupulously paying for what he takes is something of a mystery, but these same rats certainly take the greatest pleasure in the odds and ends which they steal and collect. In Lindsay's “Mind In Lower Ani- mals” a description is given of a trade rat's nest found in an unoccupied house. The outside was composed en- tirely of iron spikes laid in perfect symmetry, with the points outward. Interlaced with the spikes were about two dozen forks and spoons and three large butcher knives. There were also a large carving fork, knife and steel, several plugs of tobacco, an old purse, a quantity of small darpenters’ tools, including several augers, and a watch, of which the outside casing, the glass and the works were all distributed separately, so as to make the best show possible, The trade rat has its South American counterpart in the viscacha, a little relative of the chinchilla, which lives in families of twenty or thirty on the pampas. Everything that takes its fancy and is portable is carried by the viscacha and piled in neat little heaps at the mouth of its burrow. If a ranch- man drops his watch or any similar article he always searches the viscacha burows in the neighborhood and gen- erally finds his lost property.—Chicago News. ABORIGINES OF AFRICA. Vaalpens Seem to Be the Lowest Or. der of Cannibals. An obscure race may possibly be the true aborigines of Africa south of the Zambezi. These are the Kattea, or Vaalpens, as they are nicknamed by the Boers on account of the dusty color their abdo- men acquires from the habit of creep- ing into holes in the ground, who live in the steppes region of the north Transvaal as far as the Limpopo. As their complexion is almost a pitch black and their stature only about four feet, they are quite distinct from their tall Bantu neighbors and from the yellowish Bushmen. The “dogs” or “vultures,” as the Zu- Jus cail them, are the “lowest of the Sow,” being undoubtedly cannibals and often making a meal of their own aged and infirm, which the Bushmen never do. Their habitations are holes in the ground, rock shelters and lately a few hovels. They have no arts or indus- tries or even any weapons except ‘hose obtained In exchange for ostrich eathers, sktns or ivory. Whether they have any religious ideas it is impossible to say, all inter- course being restricted to barter car- ried on in an gesture language, for no- body has ever yet mastered their tongue, all that is known of their lan- guage being that it is absolutely dis- tinet from that of both the Bushman and the Bantu. There are no tribes, merely little family groups of from thirty to .fifty “individuals, each of which Is presided over by a headman, whose functions are acquired not by heredity, but by personal qualities. “So little information is available con- «cerning the Kattea that it is impossi- ble to say anything about their racial @affinities.—Scientific American. ' A Queer Marriage Custom. Members of the M'jiji tribe, who live on the Limpopo river, wear an extraor- dinary “marriage dress’ This weird and uncomfortable looking costume is made entirely of split reeds, fastened together with grass, and the unhappy sachelor who contemplates matrimony is éompeiled to wear it for three solid months before the happy event.comes off, meanwhile leading a life of strict seclusion. What effect this extraor- dinary custom has on the popularity of marriage among the M’jijis is not | known, but it was only with the: ut- most difficulty that some members of er nted police, who encountered wo Benedicts, induced them to allow their photographs:to be taken. —Wide World Magazine. A Sot an Irishman. “There is a bust of Hugh O'Brien, a former mayor of Boston, in the corrl- dor of the Boston Public library and one of John Boyle O'Reilly in the news- 2 BRICK COURT. Temple Chambers In Which Oliver Goldsmith Amused Himself. Few buildings link the London of the present day with so many of the liter- ary characters of the London of the past as does the house at 2 Brick court, Middie Temple. The dominant memory which clings around It is that perpetuated by a handsome tablet on its front elevation bearing the words: In these chambers died Oliver Goldsmith On the 4th of Apl., 1TH. and a medallion of the poet. Goldsmith's, however, was seldom a lonely figure, and he gathered around him at Brick court all the wit of the metropolis of his day. In 1765, on the strength of the success of “The Good Natured Man” and the fact that he was making some £500 a year, “Goldie” expended £400 on chambers “up two pair right” and fitted them with showy carpets, gilt mirrors and furniture ex- travagantly upholstered in blue velvet. Thus equipped, he embarked on a course of expenditure in which fine clothes for himself, grand dinners to a literary coterie and pretty trifies for venal beauties all bore costly parts. Johnson, Dr. Arne, Percy Reynolds, Francis and Bickerstaff were among the frequent visitors at 2 Brick court, but their arrival was not the cause of $0 much concern to Goldsmith's coten- ants as that of some other of the poet's guests, It was the little supper parties to Goldsmith's young friends of both sexes that drew from the studious Blackstone, hard at work on his famous “Commentaries” in the rooms below “Goldie's,” bitter protests against the racket of his “reveling neighbor.” Both “The Traveler” and “The Vicar of Waketield” were published soon aft- er Goldsmith moved into Brick court, but the income they brought him was insufficient to withstand the drain made on his resources by his extravagance, his generosity and his taste for gam- bling. Owing £2,000, unable to obtain further advances from his booksellers and seeing no way out of his embar- rassments, Goldsmith broke down in spirits and health. He had to leave those windows from which he used to watch the rooks in the grove, which once stood where now is Elm court, and, as he wrote, “often amused my- self with observing their plan of policy.” Goldsmith returned thither, nevertheless, to die, and though he was carried to his last resting place through rows of weeping women the benches of the Temple appear to have valued him so little that the very place of his neglect the tablet came as tardy but welcome reparation.—London Tribune. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. An ounce of assistance is worth a pound of advice, Count your joys and you will dis- count your sorrows. Hard labor is a plaster that alleviates the pains of the mind. Part of the art of doing things is to attempt but little at a time. Some people seem to think that loud makes a sound argument. you have a cross to bear, bear it like a man and don't place it on ex- hibition. When the opposing attorney offers to compromise it means that you have a good case, Many a man is credited with being patient when in reality he is too lazy to register a kick. Many a fool has acquired a reputa- tion for wisdom by accidentally doing the right thing at the right time.— Exchange. Amy Robsart. On a Sunday In September, 1560, Lady Robert Dudley, better known un- der her maiden name of Amy Robsart, being in good health. sent to a fair all the people of Comnor Hall, near Ox- ford, where siie was residing, except ore friend. On their return she was lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Dudley courted inquiry. The Inquest found that she died by accident, and she was splendidly buried in St. Mary's, Oxford. The Spanish ambas- sador wrote that Elizabeth had told him a few days before that Amy was likely to die’ soon, but he may well have had a motive for a false state- ment. It is Sir Walter Scott's greatest crime that he misdates Amy Robsart’s death by some fifteen years.—Pall Mall Gazette, The Regular Custom. iIo.a London street a girl of twelve and a boy of ten were playing a family ny of “mother and father,” and Bobby was being instructed In his role, “Now, Bob,” said the girl, “you {Jest walk up ter ther corner am’ wait there till we tells yer ter come. We're a-goin’ ter git dinner ready, an’ when we calls yer, yer ter come "ome and ichuck the fings about” “He!” said ‘Bobby. “Come ‘ome drunk, do I? And “why for?” “Why for, stoopid?” retort- «ed the girl, with a glance of mingled scorn and pity. “Ain't it Saturday?” Generosity. : Never be sorry for any ‘thing that you ever did, even. if it was betrayed. Never be sorry that you were magnanimous if the man was mean afterward. Never be sorry that you gave. It was right for you to give even if you were imposed upon. You cannot afford to keep on the safe side by being mean. The Plural. In a Chicago school a class was ‘studying irregular plurals of nouns when it was asked by the teacher to give the plural of “child.” Then it was that little Edgar, who knew how If was at home, promptly answered, “Twins.” burial became forgotten. For that’ .South Milwaukee, Wis., pleaded guilty A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Wednesday, November 14. The Erie Railroad company has placed orders for 58,550 tons of steel rails for delivery during 1907. Vincent Moore and his 11-year-old son were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at Paoli, Ind. Two lives were lost and the village of Richland, O., practically wiped ou: by a fire which was caused by an ex- plosion of gas. . Armed bandits held up a South Pacific express at Carlin, Nev. and escaped with over $1000 and the suit cases of the passengers. President Roosevelt will be asked to deliver the address at the unveil- ing of the monument to General Law- ton at Indianapolis, Ind, on next Memorial Day. Thursday, November 15. One man was killed and another fa- tally injured in a fire in a tenement house in Brooklyn. Dan McFeeters, proprietor of a ho- tel at Chester, Pa., was committed to jail on the charge of murdering his bartender. The comptroller of currency has called for a statement of the condition of national banks at the close of busi- ness on Monday, November 12. Justin McGlynn, 11 months old, pulled a basin of boiling lard from the stove in his home at Philadelphia and was so badly burned that he died. The safe in the jewelry store of Roy L. Leonard, at Endicott, near Binghamton, N. Y., was blown open by burglars, who escaped with $3000 worth of goods. Friday, November 16. The Standard Oil company of New Jersey declared a quarterly dividend of $1 a share. Lieutenant Samuel N. Kane, U. S. N., retired, of New York. died sud- denly in a train at Manassas, Va. Rev. Dr. James M. Hoppin, 86 years old, professor emeritus of art at Yale University, died at New Haven, Conn., of old age. It was announced in New York that the wages of the employes of the American Express company have been increased 10 per cent. The home of William Whiteley, near Goodland, Ind., was destroyed by fire and two small children and a farm laborer were burned to death. Saturday, November 17. The Bank of Henderson, Ia., was dy- namited by robbers, who escaped with $3000. Charles E. Grant, & negro, was hang- ed at Washington, D. C., for killing Sva Barnes, also colored. Luxuries were purchased by the United States from abroad to the ex- tent of $100,000 during the fiscal year 1906. Mike Ward, the pugilist, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., as the result of a knock-out in a fight with Harry Lewis, of Philadelphia. While suffering from rheumatism, George Seafle shot and killed himself in the presence of his 86-year-old mother in his home in Philadelphia. Monday, November 19. George Keller, an aged ore miner, was found dead in an ore pit on the road leading from Allentown to Min- ersville, Pa. The Mine Owners’ Association at Leadville, Colo., will do away with the card system and run its mines on an open shop basis. The Chicago committee on second: ary schools has condemned school se- cret societies as fetish, comical, un. social and of a degenerate influence. Miss May Rickert was shot and killed in her home at Paterson, N. J., and the police are looking for Harry Leddy, who was calling on her at the time. Tuesday, November 20. Mrs. Frank R. Stockton, widow of the novelist, died at her home in Wash- ington. General C. C. Van Worst, a veteran of the Civil War, died at Milford, Del., , aged $4 years. The Alabama state agricultural school at Athens was wrecked by a storm, but no lives were lost. Jacob Schulz, former supervisor of to bribery and was fined $200. The employes of the Norfolk & Western railroad were granted an in- cerase of 10 per cent. in wages. The American Federation of Labor at the convention in Minneapolis de- clared in favor of women's suffrage. The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA -- FLOUR ; winter extras, Sis@s: Penna. roller, clear, $3. 3.20; cf mills, J 40@4.65. FLOUR firm; per bbl., 60. WHEAT firm; No. 2 sone CORN firm; No. 2 yel cli firm BAER unr gong 0 so n, 63%c. CORN steady: mixed spot, 493c.; steamer mixed, 47%ec.; southern, 48c. OATS firm; Bt pao Jo hot lke No. @37%c.; ‘No. 4, 38 TO aie. Ma i meld, 20@ase. y prints, frase, EGGS steady; FREE! An Elegant 42-Piece Hand Decorated, FREE! CHINA DINNER SET. FREE! We are going to give away one of these beautiful Dinner Sets every Saturday Night until January 1st, 1907. With every jo0-cent cash pur- chase you will receive a numbered ticket, and on Saturday night the one holding the lucky number will receive the Dishes. This set of China Dishes could not be purchased for less than $10.00. Some one is sure to get a beautiful set free every week—you may be the lucky one. Now, you are all in need of GOOD WINTER SHOES, and you can buy them from us just as cheap as any place in Bellefonte, and you also get Handsome Premiums Free, in addition to the chances on the Dishes each week. TRY YOUR LUCK. COME TO US IF YOU WISH A SQUARE DEAL. YEAGER & DAVIS ————— EE — I ——— | Heiress to $500,000 Died In Poverty. | Atlantic City, N. J, Nov. 17.—A! search in this city by agents of the | Italian government for Constanta Ma- | jestre Benedette, who was left a for- tune of $500,000 by a wealthy uncle in Italy, ended with the discovery that the young woman died in poverty here three years ago. Miss Benedette and her uncle had a misunderstanding and she came to America. There was no correspondence between them. She was a favorite of her uncle, however, and when he died he left her his for- tune. The body will be shipped to Italy. Middies to Get Dewey's Flagship. Washington, D. C., Nov. 19. — The protected cruiser Olympia, which was Admiral Dewey's flagship during the Spanish-American war, is to be fitted up as a training ship for midshipmen during the summer months and will in future he stationed at Annapolis. Work on the Olympia will be begun at once at the Norfolk navy yard, and it is planned to have the cruiser ready for ite new duty by April. Medical. “oer CRUPTIONS. Dry, moist, scaly tettor, all forms of eec- zema or salt Seas: pimples and Wikist ou- tane eruptions proceed from bumors, either inherited, or acquired through defec- Wye qiqution ssdumiitliption. drying treat these eruptions w medicines is hs yi. The thing to do is to HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA AND PILLS ly cleanse the blood, ex- ‘Which thorough! . | pelling ‘all humors and building up the | system. They cure, Hood's Sarsaparilla nently cured J. G. 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