Lifting a Kettle of Hot Water. | MAKING OLD GLORY. The Way Flags Are Turned Out With Modern Machinery. By the aid of modern machinery only an hour is required for the manufac- ture of a silk or wool bunting Ameri- can flag 6 by 10 feet in size. This task includes fourteen different opera- tions and twenty years ago required a day and a half to accomplish. The last decade has witnessed the introduction of splicing and cutting machines as well as improved sewing machines. These have revolutionized the flag making industry. The first step in making a flag, says the New York Sun, is to cut the stripes from huge rolls of red or white silk or wool bunting. Machinery ac- complishes most of this, although some operatives equipped with huge shears are still employed. The stripes are given over to the machine operatives, by whom they are sewed together with lightninglike rapidity. The lock stitch is used and the thread fed from spools, each of which holds 24,000 yards. The strips sewed together, the flag is ready to receive the union. The un- jon is the blue field at the left upper corner of the flag bearing the forty-six stars, a star for every state, although most of the flags seen for some months will show only forty-five stars, Stars of wool bunting flags are of muslin, although the union itself is of the same material as the body of the flag. A star is always half the width of a stripe of the flag it adorns. Muslin stars are cut out by machin- ery at the rate of 3,000 an hour. A star is five pointed, each being precise- Iy like its fellow. As fast as the stars are cut out they are passed to girls who, standing at long tables, arrange them on the unions. Then they are pasted in place by hand and turned over to the machine operatives. Placing the union in position fellows, two unions being required for each flag, one on either side. Stripes and union joined, the finishers take the flag in hand. Strong canvas bands are sew- ed across the headings, the bands hav- ing grommets, or eyelets, in the cor- ners. In the case of large flags for staffs the halliards run through these grommets. Although every year more than 4,000,- 000 American flags are made in the fashion described, they form only a small proportion of the total number manufactured. Millions of printed flags come into existence every year, and their number is constantly in- creasing. Blaine and an Appropriation. When James G. Blaine was speaker of the house he cleverly got through a resolution appropriating $12,000 to the needy widowed daughter of President Zachary Taylor. This lady got as far as Washington on her way to Paris to see a sick daughter and, being destitute of money, appealed to her only friend at the capital, General Sherman. His purse was always open to the distress- ed, but he had not funds at all’ ade- quate to relieve her necessities, In this emergency he thought of Blaine. The man from Maine entered into the spirit of the occasion as soon as he heard General Sherman's statement. He called another to the chair and made a five minutes’ speech that fairly electri- fled the house, which passed the reso- lution Blaine had penned only a mo- ment before, He took the resolution in person to the senate, where it was also immediately passed, had the president to sign it the next day, and on the fol- lowing day the beneficiary got the money. General Sherman always in- sisted that Blaine would have made the grandest actor that ever lived and in adapting his career to politics he robbed the stage of a born star. Horses and Furs. “Never ship horses to New York in the fall or winter if you want to make a good sale,” was the advice that was handed out to a western man who had a number of horses that he wished to When © an Lies. “If yu want to tell whether or not the man you are talking to Is telling | the truth. don't look him in the eyes,” sald a friends last night. “I thought it was just the other way,” said one of those pres- ent. “I've always understood that it made it harder for the liar if you looked squarely in his eyes.” “That's a wrong impression,” continued the bank teller. “The man who knows how to lie knows how to look you in the eyes when he’s doing it. Denver bank teller to some ' And the man who isn't a | regular liar, but who has made up his | mind to lie to you, decides first that he must look you straight in the eyes. the eyes, that tells you whether the other fellow is lying. We use the sys- tem frequently in the bank. A man will come in to tell us some business tale. We look at his feet or his hands or his knees, but never in his eyes. If he's telling the truth his volce will be firm and straightforward, and the absence of your gaze In his eyes will not affect it, but if he's lying he'll be confused by your action, and his volce will tremble. He'll hem and haw and clear his taroat. You may rest as- sured then that he’s stringing you,”— Denver Post. Rare Ben Jonson. The epitaph, “O Rare Ben Jonson,” engraved on the tablet marking the burial place of the celebrated play- wright in the “poets’ corner,” West- minster abbey, is said to have orig- | inated with Jack Young (afterward , | wrong. stand it.” | knighted), who, “walking there when the grave was covering, gave the fel- low 18 pence to cut it.” Dr. Brew- er In his “Phrase and Fable” says Shakespeare called Jonson “Rare Ben,” but does not say where. Ac- cording to Chambers’ “Book of Days,” the phrase formed the concluding words of the verses written and dis- played in the clubroom of Ben's clique | at the famous Mermaid tavern. The epithet “Rare Ben Jonson” is said to have been first uttered after the ap- pearance of his highly successful farce, “Bartholomew Fair.” The epitaph has been copied once at least. When Sir William Davenant was Interred in Westminster abbey the inscription on his covering stone was “O Rare Sir William Davenant.” Deception of Wild Birds. Falcons—hawks, the largest species— can compress their features and look very thin if they think It necessary to do so. As to the owls, they can hump into any position they think most suit- able. [It is useless to look for these self preserving traits in any of the family kept in zoological collections, for the birds are so accustomed to see large numbers of people passing and repassing or standing in front of them that they treat the whole matter with perfect indifference. They know that at a certain time their food will be brought to them and that they are otherwise perfectly safe. The raptures in a wild state have a bloom on their plumage, like the bloom on a bunch of grapes. which is not so often seen when in captivity. A Train For Tyler. During Mr, Tyler's incumbency of the presidential office he arranged to make an excursion in some direction and sent his son Bob to arrange for a special train. It happened that the railroad superintendent was a strong Whig. As such he had no favors to bestow on the president and informed Bob that his road did not run any special trains for the president. “What!” said Bob. “Did you not fur- nish a special train for the funeral of President Harrison?’ “Yes,” sald the superintendent, “and If you'll bring your father in that condition you shail have the best train on the road.” A Canton Clock. The famous clepsydra or watch clock of Canton is housed in a temple on the city walls. Three big earthen jars on successive shelves and a fourth and lowest one with a wooden cover con- stitute the whole clepsydra. The wa- ter descends by slow drops from ‘one jar to another, the brass scale on a float In the last jar telling the hours as it rises. Every afternoon at § o'clock since 1321 A. D. the lowest jar has been emptied, the upper one filled and the clock thus wound up for an- other day. iron In the System. It is often said that there is iron enough in the system of an ordinary man to make a plowshare. The state- ment Is exceedingly wide of the truth. The amount of iron contained In the animal tissues of a man weighing 150 pounds is about 100 grains, or a quar- ter of an ounce. Yet so important is even this small amount to the sys- tem that a difference of a few grains more or less may produce serious con- stitutional disturbance, A Dilemma. “Then, Maurizio, tomorrow I will come with my wife to see you both.” “Delighted! But look here. Tell your wife not to wear her new diamond ear- rings or my wife will at once want a pair.” “Oh, the mischief! And my wife was only coming for the purpose of showing them oft.”’—11 Diavolo Rosa, It Couldn't Be. Dean Farrar quotes Tennyson as haw ing related to him the remark of a farmer who, after hearing a fire and! brimstone sermon from an old style preacher, consoled his wife by saying: “Never mind, Sally, that must be No constitooshun couldn't America’s Failings. America has little of the economie| sagacity of England, Intellectual acu. men of Germany or social rhythm of France.—A. E. Winship in Armenia, BENEVOLENT VERDI His Generosity to Old Friends and to All Aged Musicians, The population of the little Italian village where Verdi was born was made up of uneducated, hardworking laborers, and his surroundings were of the most prosaic kind. But the fire of genius was in the lad, says his biog- rapher, and these unsympathetic en- vironments were powerless to extin- guish it. The honor of first drawing attention to the boy's gifts lies with a poor itin- | erant violinist, Bagasset by name. In It is the volce, when you don’t look at | his wanderings he frequently visited Le Roncole. Little Giuseppe and he struck up a friendship, and it was Bagasset who suggested to the boy's father that the lad should be allowed to follow music as a profession. In after years when Verdi had become famous he found Bagasset again, then a very old man and poor, and, remem- bering the past, did all in his power to help him. When Verdi was eighf years old he became the proud possessor of an old spinet. This instrument he regarded with the greatest affection, and to the day of his death it occupied a place of honor at his estate near Busseto. There | was an interesting and quaint inserip- tion written on a part of it. It gives particulars of certain repairs which had been effected and ends: “This I do gratis in consideration of the good dis- position the boy Giuseppe Verdi shows in learning to play on this instrument, which quite satisfies me for any trou- ble. Stephen Cavaletti, A. D. 1821.” This spinet meant everything in the world to the boy at this time, and it was his enthusiasm in subjecting it to the expression of the latent music that was in him that caused the dam- age and necessitated the repairs re. ferred to, Once he was playing chords on it and was delighted at having discovered the major third and fifth of C. Trying to repeat this the following day, he was unable to find the chord again. Try as he would, he could not succeed, so in childish rage he picked up a ham- mer and proceeded to bang the spinet. His father came upon the scene at this moment, and, taking the part of the spinet in this unequal encounter, he gave his son a lesson which doubt- less sounded chords in the boy’s brain which were a revelation to him, The benevolence of Verdi after his success was a byword, and toward those less fortunate ones of his pro- fession his help was at all times freely given. But everything was done in the most unobstrusive way. When his old librettist Piare was stricken with pa- ralysis Verdi paid all the costs of his illness, made him an annual allowance and at his death met the expenses of the funeral. In addition to this, he provided for the support of the old man’s daughter. One day when he was chatting with Carducci, the famous poet, an organ outside strveck up an air from “Trova- tore.” Thinking that Verdl would be disturbed, the poet went to the window to send the man away, but the com- poser pushed past him and, beckoning to the organ grinder below, threw a handful of silver out, saying to his friend: “Let him go on; it pleases me, and, besides, we must all live somehow.” The perusal of his will shows that he never forgot those who had been kind to him in his struggling days. The bequest which is most widely known in his own country is the Home of Rest For Musicians in Milan. It had always been a great idea of Verdi's to found some Institution for the care of aged musicians whose la- bors had not resulted in making them independent in the years when their work had come to an end. In his will he devoted a large share of his proper- ty to this scheme, and his generous gift affords a home to 100 old musi- cians.—Youth's Companion. Carbonic Acid Springs. In the Auvergne region of France a large amount of carbonic acid gas comes from the soil and is one of the last traces of the former volcanic ac- tivity of this region. The springs that yield the gas are found generally in the fissures of the ground which allow the water to rise. One of the Mont- pensier springs has been known as the “poisoned spring.” Animals which de- scend into the cavity to drink are soon asphyxiated by the gas which Is given off by the water and accumulates here, Bodies of birds, rabbits, dogs, sheep and other animals are found, and even persons have narrowly escaped. Veg- etation is also affected by an ings show the presence of a great quan- Some time when the teakettle is bub- bling and boiling on the kitchen range + lift it quickly by its handle and set it on the open palm of your other hand. | This sounds like a very foolhardy thing to do—as If your hand might be blis- tered in a twinkling—but you will find that you can hold the teakettle which has just come from a roaring fire for some time without hurting you. Try it and then see if you can tell the rea- son why you are not burned. Be sure, however, that the water Is boiling strongly before you make the experi- ment, A Kippered Pastor. A French Protestant pastor was the guest of a Scottish preacher at a manse. One morning kippered herrings were served at breakfast. The French pastor asked the meaning of “kipper.” His host replied that it meant “to pre- serve.” On taking his leave next day the French pastor, wringing his host's hand, said. “May the Lord kipper you, my good friend.” Postage Stamps, Postage stamps are peculiarly lable to become septic and to convey deadly germs, says the British Medical Press and Circular, a fact that cannot be too widely known to the public who find in § a popular substitute for sticking plas- ter. Never Missed It. Teacher — Who discovered America? Small Boy—Dunno. Teacher—Why, I supposed every boy In school knew that. Small Boy—I didn’t know that it was lost. The Spirit of Winter. The Spirit of Winter is with ns, making its presence known in many different ways —sometimes hy cheery sunshine and glist- ening snows, and sometimes by drifting winds and blinding storms. To many peo- ple it veerun to take a delight in making bad things worse, lor rheamatism twists harder, swinges sharper, eatarrh becomes more annoyiog, and the many symptoms of sorofala are developed and aggravated. There is not mach poetry in this, hut there is truth, and it is a wonder that more peo- ple don’t ges rid of these ailments. The medicine that cures them —Hood’s Sarsap- arilla—i« ¢asily obtained and there is abondant proof that its cures are radical and permanent. Buy Postage Siamps nt Home Says Uncle Sam. There is considerable speculation among certain postmasters not ouly in Blair coun- ty. bat shroughous the country —that is in the smaller towns where the postmaster’s salary is regulated hy the receipts of the office—as to she exacs ohjeot of the propos- ed departure of the postoffice department to issue an entire new series of pos stamps, each of which will contain the name of the city or town to which the de- partment sends them, The =alaries of all smaller offices are by law regulated by the sales of postage stamps pad osey Wan Ror instacce, in Pitts. arg the salary ol the postmaster is $6,- 000 per year. If the business doubled the salary would remain the same. Bat in smaller oities and towns the situation is different—the salary depends on the re- ceipte. It is said that in many of the small offices the postmaster goes to some big firm or firms outside of his juriediction where he has or can geta pu'l and induces them to bay their] stamps at his office. ‘Thus the receipts of the office through the firm’s stamp and money order business naturally swells the receipts of the office and cnse- quently the salary increases correspond- ingly. Foralong time the government has bothered with this kind of bas. iness and word comes now that the name of the office to which the department sends stamps will be placed on them in order to regulate the salary question. You must have a foundation before you can build a house. You must bavea foundation hefore you can build up your health. The foundation of health is pare blood. To try to build up health by ‘‘doctoring’’ for symptome of disease is like trying to build a house by beginning as the chimney. Begin at the foundation. Make your blood pure and you will find thas “heart trouble’ ‘‘liver trouble’’ and kind- red ailments disappear when the poisons are eliminated from the blood. The sover- eign blood purilying remedy is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It has cared diseases pronounced incurable by physi- cians. Is has restored health to those who have absolately despaired of recovery. Medical. Crm RRH INVITES CONSUMPTION it weakens the delicate lung tissues, de- ranges the digestive orgaus, and breaks down the general health. It often causes headathe and dizziness, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, and affects the voice. Being a constitutional disease it re- quires a constitutional remedy. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA Radically and permanently cures ca- tarrh of the nose, throat, stomach,bowele, and more delicate organs. Read the testimonials. No substitute for Hood's acts like Hood's. Be sure toget Hood's. “I was troubled with catarrh 20 years. Beeing statements of cures by Hood's Harsaparilia resolved to try it. Four bot- ties entirely cured me.” WitLiax Saze- max, 1080 6th St., Milwaukee, Wis. ——Coneeited Actor—You should have seen the aadience sitting open mouthed when I was playing Hamlet last night. Critic—It must be dreadful to see an entire audience all yawning at once. ——There are anout 185 inhabited Bri- fish isles, of which Scotland claims over 100. TESTED AND TRIED. THERE IS A HEAP OF SOLACE IN BEING ABLE TO DEPEND UPON A WELL- EARNED REPUTATION, For months Bellefonte readers have seen the constant ex praise for Dean's Kidney Pills, and read about the work they have done in this lo- cality. Not another remedy eve” produc- ed such eonvincing proof of merit. Mrs. Emma J. Davis, of 246 E. : “Ihave n deal failed. Whenever I feel an ptom of my old trouble I sent to F. Green's dru store for a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills and it neverrequires more than a few doses to get me right.” ‘ Plenty more proof like this from Belle- onte. For sale by all dealers. Price £0 cents. Fos. ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States, Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other, 51-47 Green's Pharmacy. a BB Bi dn AB AA & » ' b THANKS. } re b > 4 ’ s ? ’ ; | We desire to thank our friends for | _ their patronage during the past year. {We are now going over our whole ’ < took of goods and discarding every- } | thing thas we find is not up to the | standard, and we will, if possible, | { be better prepared than ever before | < to farnish our omstomers with the b . BEST of everything in our line. < 4 We solicit your continued patronage. 4 hl dn o < # 4 » < ? % A— Bo 3 GREEN'S PHARMACY CO., * é Bush House Block, : $ BELLEFONTE, PA. ’ 44-26-1y ve P ACETYLENE The Best and Cheapest Light. COLT ACETYLENE GENERATORS.......... GIVE THE LEAST TROUBLE, THE PUREST GAS, AND ARE SAFE Generators, Supplies and Fixtures. . . . JOHN P. LYON. BUSH ARCADE, General Agent for Central Pennsylvania for she J. B. Colt Co. Took! JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successors to Grant Hoover.) FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. yA: lr: ~—=NO ASSESSMENTS, —~ Do not fail to give us a call before lauriag your Life or as we are in t write large lines at ay time, pou Office in Crider's Stone Building, 43-18-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. THE PREFERRED ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY $5,000 death by accident, 5,000 loss of both feet, 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, 630 loss of one eye, 2% gor week, total disability; (limit 52 weeks.) 10 week, partial! disability limit 26 weeks. PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, payable quarterly if desired. Larger or smaller amounts in pro portion. Any person, male or female sngaged ina pref occu in. cluding house-keeping, over . teen of age of good moral and ph, condition may insure under this policy. FIRE INSURANCE I invite your attention to my fire Insurance Agency, the strongest and Most Extensive Line of Solid Companies represented by any agency in Central Pennsylvania. H. E. FENLON, 50-21 Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. Saddlery. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE Redoced in price—horse sheets, lap spreads and fly wvete—for the next thirty days. We have de- termined to clean up all summer goods, if you are in the market for this class of goods you can’t do better thao call and supply your wants at thie store. ‘We have the largest assortment of SINGLE Axp DOUBLE DRIVING HARNESS in the county and at prices to suit the buyer. If you do not have one of our HAND-MADE SINGLE HARNESS you have missed a good thing. We are making a special effort to sap- ply you with a harness that you may bave no concern about any parts breaking. These harness are made from eeleot oak stock, Nith a high-grade workmanship, A GUARANTEE FOR TEN YEARS with each ses of harness. We have on baud a fine lot of single harness ranging in price frora $13.50 to $25.00 We carry a large line of oils, axle grease, whips, brushes, ocorsy- combs, sponges, and everything you need about a horse. We will take pleasure in showing you our goods whether you buy or not. Give us a call and see for yourself. Yours Respectfully, JAMES SCHOFIELD, Spring street, BELLEFONTE. mm vrs Y. WAGNER, Baockeauory Minis, Beiizvonrs Pa. Manufacturer, holesale and w r aad retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Ee. Also Dealer in Grain. Manufactures and has on hand at all jimes the following brands of high grade WHITE STAR, OUR BEST. HIGH GRADE, VICTORY PATENT, FANCY PATENT-—{ormerly Phes- nix Mills high grade brand. "hie valy place in the county where SPRAY, ae a or a, ee: ALSO: INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD. FEED OF ALL KINDS, . Whole or Manufactured. All kinds of Grain bought at office. Exchanges Flour for Wheat. and STO . © eliet 4 RE, - Bishop Street, MILL . ROOPSBURE, 419 - -
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