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Beliefonte, Pa., February 8, 1907. | “There are few tales of cat fidelity
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worse of the cat for this,” says an ob-
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. server. “His very independence com-
pels respect. He walks ‘by his wild
TI eh Ere Van lone, waving his wild tail, through the
Marriage customs have changed ev-| wild woods, as an inspired modern
erywhere with the advance of elviliza- | writer bas set forth. Al the genera
tion. Anglo-Saxons in ancient times, it | oBs have not served to tame him.
is said, used to capture their wives by | and he most domestic of the race will
force from their fathers or their hus- | revert sooner to a wild life at ‘the cali
bands, it did not matter which. { of the blood’ than any other friend of
This was before Augustine came to man. It is thus scarcely surprising to
preach Christianity. Then purchase was find that the most famous cat lovers
more common than capture, although | have been drawn from the ranks of
the latter seems to have been frequent | Politicians and poets, those whom rea-
enough to the reign of Ethelbert to Sons of state or n sensitive tempera-
need regulation by law. By this law a | ment have rendered averse from trust-
man might run away with a woman, | ing their fellow creatures and who con-
provided he afterward paid her pre-! sequently bestow all their affections
vious owner, be he father or husband, upon the ‘fireside sphinx.’ We are in-
50 shillings. If it was husband who Vited to believe that the most famous
had thus been deprived of his wife, the | of all cats, he who brought fame and
woman's captor had not only to pay | fortune to his master, Dick Whitting-
him the fine, but also to buy him an- | ten, was no four legged animal at all,
other wife. In any case the stolen wo- but merely the French word ‘achat —
man belonged to her eaptor,
If a man had purchased his bride in | great merchant made a pet only of his
the days of Ethelbert and afterward merchandise from the very beginning.
concluded he had paid too much for | Thus in later years do the idols of our
her, it was lawful for him to return her | youth topple about our heads,
to her former owner and claim again| “But other legends—nay, facts—are
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the purchase price, provided that he
had not previously expressed satisfac-
tion by making the bride a present on
the morning after the wedding.
The next step was the “foster lien,”
when the bride price was paid on the
day of espousal and was supposed to
‘compensate the parent for the cost of
bringing up his daughter. It seems,
however, that this soon fell into disre-
pute, as there was no law against the
father engaging his daughter to nu-
merous suitors, taking from each the
“foster lien” and, of course, cheating
all but one on the wedding day, which
at that time was only the day of be-
trothal, when the suitor gave a “wed”
or pledge for the future performance of
his contract. If the suitor did not claim
his bride within two years after the
wedding day, he forfeited all right to
her and to whatever money or goods he
had paid for her. If the woman and her
father broke their promises, the father
had to give the suitor four times as
Juich as the suitor had already paid
m.
As civilization advanced the bride
price was given to the woman herself
and hecare Jor dowry, while nowa- |
days the tables are frequently turned, |
and the bride settles the money on her
husband.
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STAGESTRUCK.
An Incident of the Boyhood Days of
William McKinley.
| eat was brought up and introduced to |
lioft us. Cardinal Wolsey, for instance,
| when acting in his official capacity as
| lord chancellor is said to have had his
favorite cat always seated beside him,
and another prince of the church, Rich- | away a good while in that posture, but
| at last he got his foot clear and so
| came to escape,
brought home and let blood and after |
| some rest taken is now well again. The
| elien, found his only relaxation in
| keeping a number of kittens in his pri-
| vate cabinet and watching their gam-
[ bols during his sparc moments. Wo |
jeannot really reckon Richelieu as a
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true lover of the race, however, for di- |
rectly the kittens grew to three months |
{ he had them sent away and replaced |
| by others. Lord Chesterfield left in his
| will life pensions to his favorite eats
| and their kittens. Vietor Hugo's great
| eat Chanoine always sat cn a large red
| ottoman In the center of his salon and
| received his guests in state, showing
| marked displeasure if any one failed i
{ to earess or praise her. |
“Tasso wrote 2 sonnet to his favorite
cat, and Petrarch had one he loved as
dearly, we are told, as Laura. No |
doubt she was the confidant of many
of his trials and consoled him for much |
of the fair lady's disdain, and when |
pussy died the poet had her embalmed |
in the BEzyptian fashion and earried her |
mummy about with him everywhere. |
Baudelaire, the French poet, a very f
shy man, was always ill at ease in any
new house he entered until the family
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him, after which, with the eat on his
knee, he was perfectly happy in his
silent poet fashion.
One does not readily associate our
martyred president, William McKinley,
with an ambition to become an actor,
but in a grouping of eminent person-
ages who have conceived at one time
or another in their lives a passion to
tread the boards we find the subjoined
account:
“It was while holding the humble |
position of clerk at a hat store in Cin- |
cinnati that Mr. McKinley became
stagestruck and once confessed that
he did not outgrow his desire to be-
come an actor for many years after-
ward. This desire arose through wit-
wiessing the Shakespearean plays as
presented by the great tragedian, Ed-
win Forrest, for whom Mr. McKinley
Lonceived a great admiration.
“‘Imagine my feelings,’ the presi-
~dent said on one occasion when relat-
ing his boyish ambitions, ‘when For-
rest walked into our store one day to
make a purchase. I rushed to the
front in order to serve my ideal hero
of the theater. The sale, however, was
made by an older clerk, but I was
given the privilege of pressing and
stretching the hat. The great actor
stood near me, observing my work, and
the smile of appreciation which he
gave me was one of the events of my
south.’ "—Serap Book.
Growth of Rocks.
Rocks do not grow in the sense that
a plant grows, They may increase by
accretion, and they may undergo chem-
feal change. The old sea bed, being
lifted up, becomes sandstone and lime.
stone, ‘The volcanic ash and lava
strewn over the plains become tufa,
hard enough for building stone. The
pebbly shore of a river becomes con-
glomerate. The simple mineral does
grow, however, when it takes a crystal
form. The sparkling prism of quartz
increases from an atom to a crystal
a8 large as a forearm by a process of
addition and assimilation, wonderfully
slow but beautifully regular, exactly
as crystals of ice form on the window
pane.
Why Bulls Hate a Red Flag.
In the first place, says an English
writer, red is a color to which cattle
are unaccustomed, so that they may
naturally be supposed to be startled
by its very novelty. Scientists show
‘the sensation of red to be the comple-
ment of that of green, being induced
by exactly opposite affections of the
retina. If the eyes of cattle are con-
structed on . similar principle to our
own the continual contemplation of
green, as In trees and herbage, niust
produce a state of retinal fatigue, pre-
«disposing a violent excitement of the
retina immediately a red substance is
presented to view.
Takes No Chances.
“Remember,” said the kind elderly
gentleman, “that you may be president
of the United States.” “Yes,” answer-
2d the boy whose father is connected
with the race track, “but look at the
population of this country. I've only
got one chance in millions. I ain't play-
ing any long shots like that”—Wash-
ington Star.
“Traditions respecting cats are, of
course, legion. From time immemorial
they have been regarded as somewhat
uncanny, omens of weal or woe, beings |
to be either concilinted or crushed.
The cat worship of ancient Egypt and,
later, the Roman creed that the eat
was sacred to Dianna speak of the ome:
the wild charges of witcheraft — or
concern in it—rife during the dark
ages of Europe will attest the latter.
But there is another popular belief de |
serving also of mention, that whieh
sets forth the old maid as the cat's |
only friend, a legend arising in the
medineval nunneries overrun with
mice, where one or more cats were
always kept and were no doubt mush
petted by the good nuns.” — Chicago
News.
A Hard Burial.
Some few winters ago a gang of ear-
rlage washers was engaged washing
carriages on one of our northern rail-
ways when one of them remarked to
his mate, an old soldier who was fa-
mous as a long bowist, “It's awful eold
this morning, David.”
“Cold! This is nothing,” said David.
“I remember when I was in Canada in
186— one of our mates died, poor ehap.
And you will have some idea what
sort of frost it was when I tell you it
froze the body so stiff and the ground
so hard that we had to get hammer
and chisel, make a nick in the ground
and then drive him in with a pile
driver. That was the only way we
could give the poor chap decent
burial.” —Eondon Answers.
Using the Eyes.
A scientific writer quotes Helmholtz
as saying that in his work he could
only liken himself to the mountaineer,
painfully and slowly climbing, often
obliged to turn backward, lighting lat-
er on new traces leading forward, and:
finally reaching the goal, only to find
to his confusion that a plain road led
thither, if he had only had the eyes to
see. Darwin said he thought he was
superior to the common run of men in
noticing things which easily escape at-
tention and in observing them ecare-
fully.
Cheap Generosity.
A great smoker handed his cigar
case to his right hand neighbor.
“Thank you, but I don't smoke,” said
the man.
He therefore handed it to the man on
the left, who made the same reply,
| whereupon his wife nudged him and
| sald, “Why don’t you hand it to the
captain?”
“No, thank you; he. smokes.”—Nos
Lolsirs.
The Mean Thing!
“Who was that fool you bowed to?
“My husband.”
“Oh, I—er—I—humbly apologize. I"—
“Never mind, I'm not angry. But
what a keen observer you are!”—
Cleveland Leader.
Did you ever notice that the size of
+ trouble depends on whether it is come
Ing or going?—Mankato Free Press
| upon the ground.
CROMWELL'S HORSES.
An Accident That Befell the Protector
In Hyde Park.
“As Cromwell rose in power and rank
his love of horses began to be more
conspicuous,” says a writer in Black-
wood's. “When he started from Lon-
don in 1649 to rec: uer Ireland he
went forth in that state and equipage
as the like hath hardly been seen, him-
self’ in a coach with six gallant Flan-
ders mares, reddish gray.” In 1635,
when the Spanish ambassador took his
leave of the lord protector, Cromwell
sent him “his own coach of six white
horses” to convey him to and from
Whitehall. “Certain it is,” adds the
narrator, “that none of the English
kings had ever any such.”
The protector was not much of a
whip, however. In 1654 ike Count of
Stock Cleaning and How we do it.
Oldenburg sent Cromwell a present of
six horses, and the protector's anxiety
| to make trial of their quality led to his :
well known adventure in Hyde park.
On Friday, Sept. 20, he went with Sec- ,
retary Thurloe and some of his gentle- i
men to take air in the park, ordered |
the six horses to be harnessed to his :
| coach, put Thurloe inside of it and un- |
| dertook to drive himself. “His high-
| ness,” said a letter from the Dutch |
| ambassador, “drove pretty handsomely !
t for some time, but at last, provoking |
| those horses too much with the whip,
; they grew unruly, whereby his high-
| ness was flung out of the coach box
His foot getting
| hold in the tackling, he was carried
secretary, being hurt on his ankle with
leaping out of the coach, hath been
forced to keep his chamber hitherto
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He was presently |
and been unfit for any business.”
The royalist Scroggs, afterward chief i
justice, writing of this incident, hoped |
that the next fall would be from a eart |
—hinting at the gallows. As to Crom- i
well's views on the burning question
of horse racing it is difficult to arrive |
at a positive conclusion. His constant
alm was to possess as many good i
horses as he could afford. Whether he |
entered his horses for races or had
the satisfaction of owning a winner |
history does not say.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. |
The only thing some people always |
have ready is an excuse. i
Almost any one can be induced to lie |
If you nsk enough questions. |
The better you behave the better you
get along. It's old, but it's true. |
A man nobody can quarrel with has |
the life problem reasonably well solved.
Lack of opportunity has to stand as
an excuse for a lot of general shiftless-
ness.
The trouble with some people lies in
the fact that they consider their faults
their misfortunes, i
Are you minong these who treat their
new acquaintances better than they
treat their old friends? i
If a man has plenty of money to back
up a lot of fool notions, people call him
eccentric, but if he ouly has the notions
he is a crank.—Atchison Globe.
Tamed the Box Office Man.
A theater box office man whose seats
were all sold days abead was turning
away disappointed patrons more than
grullly when a man who had watched
the process with glowing ire reached
the window. “Selling any mor: seats
this season?’ he began. The ticket
seller answered with a stare. The ques-
tion, quietly but firmly repeated, finally
received an aflirmative answer. “Give
me two.” “When?” growled the seller,
recovering. “Any time,” said the man.
The seller was slmost too crushed to
ask “Where?” “Anywhere,” replied
the man. “How much?" whispered the
seller, his voice deserting him. “Any
price,” said the man. The tickets were
transferred in an awed silence, and the
line of purchasers that had overheard
smiled benevolently at the noticeably
tamed man in the cage.—~New York
Post.
Antiquity of Proverbs.
Proverbs existed long before books.
In the earliest times they served as
the unwritten language of morality
and have been passed down through
the generations. In Africa there are
numerous quaint proverbs. Among
them are: “He who dives on dry land
will scarify his face,” “Two people
cannot sit down upon the point of the
same thorn at the same time.” In the
Transvaal the proverb, “Beware of a
silent man; he has a brass band in his
mouth,” is often heard.
Holmes on Shelley.
Shelley vaporized everything in his
glowing crucible, but there was gold at
the bottom of it. When I look at him
spreading the starry wings of his fancy
over his chaotic philosophy he seems
like a seraph hovering over the un-
fathomable chasm, whose blackness is
the abode of demons.—"Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table.”
Her Reasoning.
Wife (at the costumer’s)—Which
shall T have—this coat at 40 marks or
that one at 70? Husband—I have only
40 marks with me. Wife—Oh, well,
then, we'll buy the seventy mark coat
on credit, and then you can buy me a
hat with the 40 marks.—Lustige Blat-
ter.
Crushed.
“If 1 couid only die and leave you
well off,” he said after they had had
to go.”
“How,” she cruelly asked, “could you
die and leave me otherwise than well
off ?"—Chicago Record-Herald,
their first quarrel, “I would be glad |
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