Demoreaiic atc, Bellefonte, Pa., May 31, 1907. RAISING CHURCH FUNDS. The Kaffirs Mix In a Lot of Fun With Their Generosity. The gentle Kaffir when he does be- come Christianized hes his own ideas of the best method of raising funds for the support of the “cause.” From the subjoined description of a native meeting sent home by a missionary it would appear that native generosity, glthough of a rough and tumble char- acter, is distinctly productive of ways and means: “Recently 1 attended a native tea meeting, at which more than £12 was raised by this very poor congregation. Their way of doing it was characteris- tic and amusing. They paid 2 shillings to sit down to tea. Then some one would pay 3 shillings for such and such a man to be required to get up again and leave the table. The man thus assailed would pay 3s. Gd. for leave to sit down again. There was a special table at which six coulal sit, paying an extra shilling each for the privilege. They had just .got seated when a man paid 7 shillings to clear them out, ans’ they paid another 8 shil- lings to sit on, and so it went on. They arrange all this themselves, and tis is their way of giving to the cause. One man had a tin of sirup. He said he would pay 2 shillings to pour it over another man's head who had got him- self up well in a large collar, ete,; this man paid 3 shillings to be let off, the first man 4 shillings again to do it, the other 5 shillings to escape, the first 6 shillings to do it—and did it, and, oh, the laughter and the mess!” THE SACRED CODFISH. Famous Emblem That Adorns the Massachusetts Statehouse. A codfish carved in wood hangs on the white mahogany wall of the Massa- chusetts hall of representatives in the statehouse in Boston. Between two classic pillars it occuples a place of honor, directly opposite the desk of the presiding officer. This wooden fish is the renowned original sacred codfish of the Old Colony, and it has assisted at the deliberations of the lawmakers of Massachusetts for more than a cen- tury aad a half, gathering sanctity year by year. It is a relic of the old build- ing which preceded the present state- house, and great is the dignity of this souvenir of colonial art and industry. The following account of its origin is given in a Boston paper: “Captain John Welch of Boston was the creator and carver of the celebrat- ed fish. He was a wood carver of re- nown for his time and in 1747 estab- lished his business in Dock square. He belonged to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company and aftesward be- came its captain, He was called upon to contribute to the decoration of the colonial assembly hall, and as at that period codfish was the colony's main article of export Captain Welch con- ceived the idea of immortalizing the king fish of the Massachusetts waters. When completed the carving was fin- ished off and colored so as to be a fae simile of life and was hung on the wall of the assembly hall” A Fool's Identity, Some of the hest known people pass unrecognized by those to whom they should be known. Harold Frederick sat one night at dinner next a man whose very silence and taciturnity caused him the more closely covertly to survey him. Not a word was ex- changed between the two. “Who was that hopeless idiot that I sat next to at dinner?’ asked Frederick at the close of the meal. “That hopeless idiot was Cecil Rhodes,” he was answered. It was the fact. The Colossus had been in one of the moods in which he would not talk, and Frederick, though he had seen his portrait a hundred times, had not recognized him.—St. James’ Ga- zette. Sagacity of the Ancients, Many quotations came from the works of Thales, the Greek philosopher and one of the seven wise men. It was he who said, “Know thyself,” “Few words are a sign of prudent judgment,” “Search after wisdom and choose what is most worthy,” “There is nothing more beautiful than the worid,” “Time is the wisest thing, for it invents and discovers all things." He also said that it was the hardest thing in the world to know oneself and the easiest to admonish another. In his youth Thales was urged to marry, but he said, “It is too scon,” and later in life upon being urged again he said, “It is too late.” Where the Relief Would Be. Dr. Story, the late principal of Glas- gow university, taking a holiday in the country once, was met by the minister of the district, who remarked: “Hello, principal! You here? Why, you must come and relieve me for a day.” The principal replied, “I don’t promise to relieve you, but I might relieve your congregation.” Coming and Going. “What kick have you against mar- ried life?” “Well, if I don't keep my wife dress- ed In the height of fashion I have trou- ble with her, and if I do keep her dressed in the height of fashion I have trouble with her dressmaker.”—Hous- ton Post. ‘ Her Loss. Gladys—Edith is so sorry she took Herbert's ring back to price it. Pene- lope—Why 80? Gladys—Why, the jew- eler sald seeing Herbert hadn't been In to settle for it, as he promised, he —_ THE JAPANESE. He Is Child, Fanatic and Emotional Savage All In One. He is a bundle of contradictions, and, measured by American standards, he is a bedlamite, straight from topsy turvy land. He may be a Chesterfield and a cheerful liar one minute and a red Indian the next—a sycophant and a welsher today und a Napoleon tomor- TOW. We westerners have been taught to tegard the little Jap as an amusing and precocious child given to obstruct- ing sidewalk traffic wit® his posite con- tests in kowtowing, to suspending from the branches of the cherry tree his dainty poems addressed to his friends and to dawdling for hours over the cor- emonial tea, and when we see him un- der the tent flap, bowing and laughing and playing checkers, he seems a vel- vet pawed kitten in khaki. And yet you and I have seen him in battle a ramping, raging tiger, greedy of Slav bayonets and afterward dragging him- self to the field hospital, shot to rags, unwhimpering, a mere bull hide wrap- ped around a will. We never know a character until we have seen it put to the test under stress—least of all the combination of sphinx and Janus known as the Jap- anese, So studied, the embattled brown boy strikes me as a strange compound of Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter the Hermit and Sitting Bull—child, fanatic and emotionless savage, all in one.— | Appleton's Magazine. OLD VIOLINS. Reasons Why Ancient Fiddles Are Bet- ter Than New. Fabulous prices are sometimes paid for old violins, and many an enthusi- astic musician would part with his last dollar to possess one of the mas- terpieces of Stradivarius or Guarneri- us or another of the famous makers of a eentury or two ago. The questioned superiority of these old and often battered instruments has been variously ascribed to the peculiar quality of the varnish used in their construction, to the elasticity of the wood employed and to the ripening and improving effects of age and long use, Of late yours however, much cre- dence has been given the suggestion of an eminent authority that the real cause of the superiority of the old in- struments is due to a peculiar warp- ing of the wood to a higher arch, a buckling caused by the position of the “TF holes and sound post. It might at first thought be suppos ed that the same effect could be pro- | duced by giving an equal arching to a | new instrument, but the effect, If at- | tained, is not permanent, because with | age the arching increases until too great a degree of rigidity is the re- sult.—Philadeiphia Record, “Plugging” a Hote! Guest. The hotel detective stepped out of the elevator and walked over to the counter. “Well, I plugged him,” he said. “Plugged him? Who? What for? Where did you hit him?" quickly asked a friend who was standing by. “Didn't hit him anywhere. Just | plugged the keyhole of his door. Nev- | er hear of plugging before? When we | have a guest whom we suspect is get- ting ready to leave without settling or | whose credit is exhausted and fails to settle up, we just wait till he leaves his room and plug the keyhole in his door. Then he has to settle up or leave his baggage. The plug fits over the end of a key. It is placed in the lock and turned. The key is then with- drawn, leaving the plug in the door.” —~Kansas City Star. i An Oversight. When Chappie got up the other morn- ing he wandered around his apart- ments in his pretty pink pajamas, the very picture of woe, “What's the matter, sir?” inquired his valet. : “I don’t know, Alphonse,” he groan- ed, “I passed a most unhappy night.” Alphonse looked him over carefully. “Oh, sir,” he exclaimed, “I know what was the matter! The trouserines of your pajamas were not creased. You must be more careful, sir. Those I had prepared for you were hanging across the foot of the bed.”—Bohemian Magazine. Cannae. Cannae, where Hannibal won his greatest victory over the Romans, Is situated on the opposite side of the peninsula from the city of Rome, on the river Aufidus and about six miles from its mouth, It was from this bat- tlefield that Hannibal sent to Carthage three bushels of gold rings from the fingers of the Roman knights slain in the battle. Cannae is about 200 miles from Rome. The Worm Turned. “Am I to understand, then,” asked a disappointed poet as the editor hand- ed back his latest productions, “that you do not like my verses?” “Yes; I don’t think much"— “Ah, you don't think! I see—that explains it.” World Regeneration, The world will only be regenerated by degrees and by reform of human character, a task that will always and of necessity remain the task of each and every member of the human race. ~—Saturday Review, Vanity. Little Fred—Why is it that women are always complaining about their servants? Little Elsie—Oh, that's just to let people know they can afford to have 'em.—Chicago News. . Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose and lessens the use to all purposes.~Taylor, | leather is ready two or three weeks YEAGER & DAVIS. EVERYONE NEEDS SHOES. EE ———— We have them in all Shapes, Leathers and Colors. We have prices to suit all kinds and conditions and guarantee full values. Everything sold for what it is. If you do not know our ways of doing, and the goods we have, come in, it costs nothing to look and OPEN EVENINGS. DISHES —60214, BOOKS AND BINDINGS. A Critic's Comparison of the Modern With the Ancient. “One of the strangest things about the early printing is the fact that the paper and binding were so much bet- | ter than we have nowadays,” said a St. Louis collector. “I have books on my shelves printed and bound by presumably reputable firms, and yet after six or eight years of careful use the paper is coming to pleces and the bindlugs are gone, while side by side with them are books 800 years old with paper intact and the bindings as good as new, The differ ence is of course in honesty of ma- terial and work. In the old days a hide was allowed to lie in the tan- ner's vats for a year before it was thought fit for use. Paper was hand- made of “real linen rags. Now book after the calf has been skinned, Pa- per Is machine made of heaven knows what, Of course there may be honest- ly made paper and strong binding now, as there were then, but a couple of hundred years ago good binding and pa ver were the rule, Now they are the rare, also the costly, exceptions. It is true that the high temperatures of the houses, the gases and coal fumes may have something to do with impairing leather bindings, for, as everybody ! knows, a stout cloth or canvas binding | | is better than the leather now used. The same Influences may also damage | the paper, but still the fact remains that neither the temperature nor the | gases affect the work of the old print- | ers, so the difference, after all, is one! of quality.”--8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. | A COINCIDENCE. | i Dein; | Peculiar Combination of Events Re- | lated by Andrew Lang. As to “the long arm of coincidence,” | it may be as long as is necessary. | Nothing is impossible to coincidence. | An instance of my own experience, | said Andrew Lang, convinces me of | this fact. I had been reading a foolish | book, “Out of the Hurly Burly,” and some of the rhymes ran in my head. They began: i Bury Bartholomew out in the woods In a beautiful hole in the ground. { In the afternoon I drove with a par ty of friends, and we took the refresh- ment of tea at a house where there were several other guests, all unknown to me even by name. As two of these lived at a place on our homeward route, they accompanied us in our ve- hicle. As we passed a wood on a hill- Cozl and Wood. JEP WARD K. 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