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.
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BUSH ARCADE,
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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
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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,
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with each ses of harness. We have
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Manufacturer,
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Also Dealer in Grain.
Manufactures and has on hand at all
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