RE
+ in diameter it would hardly be fair to
CAISSON WORK.
Mow Foundations of Great Steel
Structures Are Built.
The foundations for the great
structures are built by means of
sons in which the men can work und
a great pressure of air. tis a v
interesting sight to watch them,
the best of it Is that any one may see |
them at close range from an adjoining |
sidewalk. The caisson is a hollow steel |
sylinder open at the bottom #nd just i
large enough to permit a man to work.
The workman climbs down a ladder In |
this tube and digs away the earth at
the bottom. As the earth Is taken
geway the steel tube is gradually low- |
ered. The earth is taken out by a |
bucket, which is lowered and raised by |
a tall derrick at one side As the
caisson sinks, air is pumped into the
compartment containing the man. This
is to force back any water or dirt that
might 6il the hole from the outside as
fast as the workman removes it from
within, The pressure of this air is of-
ten so great that a man can work but
an hour or so at a time. At the top
of the caisson Is a steel cylinder with
an air tight door at either end, which
serves as a kind of vestibule to the
tube below.
When one of- the caisson workers
starts to go to work he opens the door
or lid at the top and climbs in, when
the opening Is once more tightly clos-
ed This door or lid is air tight. Aft-
er the opening to the outer air has
been closed the workman opens the
door at the bottom of this steel com-
partment and lets In compressed air
from the caisson below. It takes a
few minutes to become accustomed to
breathing this atmosphere, for the
heavy air makes the head ring. As
soon as the workman can do so he
climbs down Into the funnel below,
closing the lower door of the steel
anteroom as he does so. All this must
be done In the dark. If the workman
wishes to signal the outer world he
may do so by striking the steel sides
of his narrow prison with his shovel.
He usually signals in this way when
the bucket is to be raised or lowered.—
Frances Arnold Collins in St. Nicholas.
HOW THE MOON LOOKS.
Queer Variance In Impressions as to
the Same Object.
1 asked my men to compare the size
of the full moon to that of some ob-
ject held in the band at arm’s length.
1 explained the question carefully and
said that they were to describe an
object just large enough when seen at
arm's length to cover the whole moon
My list of answers begins as follows:
Quarter of a dollar, fair sized canta-
loupe; at the horizon, large dinner
plate; overhead, dessert plate; my
watch, six inches in diameter, sliver
dollar, bundred times as large as my
watch, man's head, fifty cent plece,
nine inches in diameter, grape fruit,
carriage wheel, butter plate, orange,
ten feet, two inches, one cent plece,
schoolroom clock, a pea. soup plate,
fountain pen, lemon pie. palm of the
hand, three feet in diameter—enough
to show again the overwhelming man-
ifoldness of the impressions received.
To the surprise of my readers per-
haps it may be added at once that the
only man who was right was the one
who compared it to a pea. It is most
probable that the results would not
have been different if 1 had asked the
question on a moonlight night with the
full moon overhead. The substitution
of the memory image for the immedi-
ate perception can bardiy bave Im-
paired the correctness of the judg-
ments. If in any court the size of a
distant object were to be given by
witnesses, and one man declared it as
large as a pea and the second as large
as a lemon pie and tne third ten feet
en———
steel
cals.
£3
form an objective judgment till the
psychologist had found out what kind
of a mind was producing that estl-
mate. — Professor Hugo Munsterberg
in McClure's.
Clean Chopsticks Sure.
“Seeing these quill toothpicks done
up in paper envelopes io the hotels
here.” sald the man from the far east.
“reminds me of the Japanese eating
places. In the bigger hotels or restau-
rants they hand you the chopsticks
done up in a sealed envelope. This is
with the idea of convincing you that
they never have been used before,
which is not always so. In the cheap-
er restaurants they have a much bet-
ter plan for setting your mind at rest.
There you get a plece of wood as
broad as two chopsticks split to with:
in an inch of one end. When you take
this piece of wood you split it the rest
of the way, and there you have the
two sticks. You can be sure then that
no other person has used them.” —New
York Sun.
The City of Glorious Sunshine.
Of all the living works of man which
1 have visited | think none is the equal
of Moscow in interest and beauty. It
is a city of glorious sunshine, of gold-
en domes and silver crosses and of
multicolored cupolas, of palaces and
temples. In it are found all the re-
finements of the west and all the cu-
rious fascinations of the east. Even
the incidents of ordinary commonplace
civilized life are touched by a favor of
romance.— Wide World Magazine.
i i
Compensation.
“But suppose you awake from your
dream to find that the feet of your
idol are but clay?”
“That wili be all right if | find the
rest of him turned into dust.”—Hous-
ton Post.
Luther said that if a man were not
strong at twenty, handsome at thirty.
learned at forty and rich at fifty he
never would be strong, handsome
learned or rich.
SOUP AT $35 A PLATE.
Steriet Roe at $10 a Head and Peanut
Bud Jelly at $250.
Public interest has recently been ex-
cited by a remarkable dinner party
given in London at which twenty-four
people sat down and which cost §15,-
000. Some high class chefs who kaow
the deepest mysteries of thelr business
are inclined to say that this was really
nothing after all.
The most expensive soup that can be
served is Chinese bird's nest soup.
which can hardly be done at less than
$35 for a moderate plate of it for each
guest.
When the fish course is reached in
the menu the most expensive item pos.
sible is the newest cavaire, made from
sterlet roe and not from common stur-
geon. There are only one or two Lou-
don restaurants at which this rare
delicacy may be obtained, and the
charge for it is $10 per bead. *
Mullet roe, another rare dish, costs
more than its weight in silver, while
those who do not wish to advance
quite to this point in expenditure might
be satisfied with a more frequently
served dish, Caribbean pompano, which
has to be brought to Loudon on ice
from Galveston or [Pensacola and
which costs $5 to $10 a pound.
A game Lie, made of the little birds
called ruffs - small things with long
legs and a ruff of feathers behind their
necks. belonging to the sandpiper fam-
ily—is about the most expensive thing
possible in this direction and cannot
be done for less than $50 to $75, while
if the ruffs are unusually scarce the
charge for the ple may easily run up
to $100.
Dunstable larks come next. They
are fairly common on the tables of
epicures, but it costs quite $7.50 to
serve a single dish of them.
There are not so many possibilities
for gigantic expenditure when the
joints come on the table, giraffe steak
or bison ribs at anything from $2.50 to
$5 a nead being about the best.
As for sweets, the thoughts of a
millionaire host who wanted to beat
the record and knew his business
would naturally fly to a jelly of peanut
buds and ginger, which would be sent
to him in little pots from China at a
charge of $250 a pot, one tablespoonful
in each.
Forced strawberries in the middle of
winter are most expensive to buy and
may run to anything from $5 to $25 a
head.
A great delicacy at one time was the
double cocoanut, or coco-de-mer, which
is only grown on two small islands of |
the Seychelles and which was last sold
at $200. It is, however, so extremely
rare now that an enactment has been
passed forbidding its exportation un-
der any circumstances.—London Stray
Stories.
INVISIBLE SNAKES.
A Den of Reptiles That Eluded the
Ordinary Passer's Eye.
The fact that snakes are rarely seen
even when they are abundant was im.
pressed upon the mind of the writer
one day while waiting for a train at a
small station in New Jersey. A nearby
culvert, where a small stream flowed
under the junction of the rallway and
a well traveled public road, seemed a
favorable place for them The stone
wall, laid up without mortar, which
supported the approach to the bridge
had a southern exposure. The chinks
afforded ample hiding place, and the
reedy borders of the stream promised
good hunting for the species which live
upon small fish, frogs, toads and earth-
WOris.
The flagman, who for several years
had passed ten hours a day at his lel
surely occupation there, denied that
there were snakes in the vicinity. “No
more than there be in Ireland, an’ it's
not me as would be tendin’ this cross-
in' If there was,” he asserted. But a
few minutes’ search in the gutters and
grass revealed four specimens which
had been under his very eyes—a gar-
ter, a worm, a De Kay and a newly
hatched milk snake. A new flagman
was Installed there the following day,
but crowds of people, many of whom
would become hysterical at, the sight
of a snake, continue to pass within
three feet of the wall blissfully uncon-
scious that they are walking over a
When the Clock Stops,
When the clock has stopped you may
bave seen the wife or husband take it up
and shake it to #tars it again. Sometimes
they succeed. Some little clogging particle
is removed by the shock aud she clock
«tarts again. Bat it does not go very long
before it runs down. Another shock per-
haps starts it, but the clock soon stops
again, and presently has to be overhauled
hy the clock docior. It’s something the
same way with the liver. It stops its nse-
ful and necessary offices, sometimes, ani
the man or woman affected tries to jar it
into starting. with some powerful pill or
potion. Perhaps they succeed. But the
sucoess does not last. The liver soon stops
again, and finally they have to go to a doo-
tor. The value of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery in such cases, is that it
carries off the clogging particles which in-
terfere with the health of the body. It
strengthens the liver, purifies the blood,
and heals diseases of the stomach and
organs of digestion and natrition. There
can be nosubstitute for *‘Golden Medical
Discovery.”
— “When she was a girl she used to
walk in ber sleep.”
“Yes, hut she married a very wealthy
man.’
“What difference does that make ?"’
“She autos now.”
— ‘‘You told me you thought of marry-
ing the Widow Brown and then you mar-
ried the widow Jumes.”
“Well, it waso't my fault ; the Widow
Jones met me first.”
A RA HE HRN SAAR,
Castoria.
i
The Kind You Have Always Bought has
borne the signature of Chas. H, Fletcher,
and has been made under his personal
supervision for over 30 years, Allow no
one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits,
imitations and “Just-as-good" are but Ex-
riments, and endanger the health of
*hildren—Experience agninst
ment.
Experi-
WHAT IS CASTORIA
Castoria ix a harmless substitute for Cas.
tor Oil, Paregoric, rns and Soothing
Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neith-
er Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance, lis age is its grarantee. It
destroys Worms and allays Feverishness,
It cures Disrrhea and Wind Colic. It re-
lieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipa-
tion and Flatulency. It assimilates the
Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
ving healthy and natural vieap The
Children's Panacea--The Mother's Friend.
Bears the Signature of
CHAS. H. FLETCHER.
In Use For Over 30 Years,
The Centaur Company, New York City.
51-21m
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Coal and Wood.
JCP WARD K. RHOADS
Shipping and Commission Merchant,
——DEALER | Nom
ANTHRACITE aAxp BITUMINOUS
fae
~=CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS ew
snd other grains,
—BALED HAY and STRAW—
J0ILDERS' and PLASTERERS' SAND
~———KINDLING WOOD—
by the bunch or cord as may suit purchasers.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of hie
friends and the public, at
————" HIS COAL YARD......
Telephone Calls { COTE Cnt esa
Suas the Passenger Station.
den of serpents.—Francis Metcalfe in | ts-
Outing Magazine.
He Remembered.
Olid Commodore Vanderbilt was al-
ways very democratic in spirit. Sit
ting on the porch of a fashionable ho-
tel at a fashionable resort on one oc-
casion, it Is related that the commo-
dore saw a lady aproaching with whom
he was acquainted. His wife and
daughter, who recognized her, could
scarcely contain their anger when he
arose and politely addressed her.
“Don’t you know,” asked the daugh-
ter after she had gone, “that horrid
woman used to sell poultry to as?”
“Yes,” responded the old millionaire,
“and 1 remember when your mother
sold root beer and 1 peddled oysters in
New Jersey.”
Horse on Them.
The wooden horse was standing be-
fore the beleaguered city.
“That seems a heavy beast,” remark-
ed Paris to Hector, surveying it critl-
cally. “Of what weight would you
say it was?’
“Troy welght, of course,” answered
Hector. Whereat envy turned Paris
green.—Harper's Weekly.
An Appropriate Tablet.
A lady wrote upon a window some
verses Intimating her design of never
marrying. A gentleman wrote the fol-
lowing lines underneath:
Wrote them on to show it be
glass, may
—Loudon Reader.
te.
ACETYLENE
The Best and Cheapest Light.
COLT ACETYLENE
GENERATORS..........
GIVE
THE LEAST TROUBLE,
THE PUREST GAS,
AND ARE
SAFE.
Generators, Supplies
and F xtures. .. .
JOHN P. LYON,
BUSH ARCADE,
General Agent for Central Pennsylvania
"for she J. B. Colt Co.
Headquarters - Bellefunte, Pa.
50-9-lm
Young Mrs. MoWade sighed.
“Jerome,” she said,
the lawo- mower.’
{onrorm NG WORDS.
Mary a Bellefonte household will find
them so.
To have the pains and aches of a bad
back removed ; to be entirely free from
annoying, dangerous urinary disorders is
encugh to make any kidoey sufferer
grateful. To tell how this great change
can be brougiit about will prove comfort.
ing words to hundreds of Bellefonte read-
ers
George B. Laird, employed in the In
spectors Office, of the P R R., and livin
on W 16th St, Tyrone, Pa, says: *
worked as a section hand on the P. R. R.
for over twenty years, and the heavy lift
ng and continual stooping and bending
told on my kidneys and brought on back-
ache. Belore I got Lean's Kidney Pills
at a drug store, fhe pain in my bask was
almost continual and sometimes the sharp
shooting twinges almost set me urasy.
The action of the kidneys was noticeab
wenk and the passages of the secretions
were very irregular. Doan's Kidney Pills
cured me, and whenever | feel the least
touch of backache I use Doan’~ Kidney
Pills and they never full to relieve me.
My daughter was troubled in the same
way about four years ago, and two boxes
of Doan’ Ridney Pills cured her so thor
oughiy that she has never had any trou-
ble of that kind since.”
Plenty more proof like this from Belle.
fonte people, il at Green's drug store
and ask what customers report.
For sale by all dealers Price 50 cents,
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan's—and
take no other. 53-27-2m-e.0.W,
|
MONEY SAVED
IS MONEY MADE
Reduced in price—horse sheets,
lap spreads and fly nets—for the
next thirty days. We bave de-
termioed to clean up all summer
goods, if you are in the market for
this class of goods you can's do
better thao call and supply your
wants at thie store,
We bave the largest assortment of
SINGLE Axp DOUBLE DRIVING
HARNESS
in the county anu 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 effors to sup-
ply you with a harness that you
way have no coocern about any
parts breaking. These harness
are made from select oak stock,
with a high-grade workmanship,
an
A GUARANTEE FOR TEN YEARS
with each set of harness, We have
on haud a fine lot of single harness
ranging in price from $13.50 to
$25.00,
We carry a large line of oils, axle
grease, whips, brushes, onrry-
combs, sponges, and everything
you need about a horse.
We will take pleasure in showing
you our goods whether you hay
or not. Give us a call and see for
yourself.
Yours Respectfully,
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
Spring street,
BELLEFONTE.
Flour and Feed.
{CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
Brockeruory Minis, Britaronrs Pa.
; Manufacturer,
and wholesaler
and retailers
ROLLER FLOUR,
FEED, CORN MEAL, Etc.
dilvo Dealer in Grain.
Manufactures and has on hand at all
fimes the following brands of high grade
WHITE STAR,
OUR BEST.
HIGH GRADE,
VICTORY PATENT,
FANCY PATENT-—formerly Phe-
nix Mills high grade brand.
The only place in the county where
SPRAY,
Spring wheat nt Flow can be
of
ALSO:
INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD.
FEED OF ALL KINDS,
Whols or Manufactured.
All kinds of Grain bought at office.
Exchanges Flour for Wheat.
FFICE .
OFFICE aud STORE, Bishop Street,
MILL - + + ROOPSBURG
7-19
Money to Loan.
*‘olaims to be very
fond of the tarf, and yet''—«he pointed to
the overgrown aud entangled garden—*'1
find is quite impossible to make bim touch
—
Finest Florida and California Seed-
less Oranges—sweet luis.
Florida Grape Fruis.
White Malaga Grapes, reasonable
prices.
Lemons.
Banauvas.
Cranberries,
Sweet Patatoes.
Celery.
Puse Maple Syrup.
Finest Full Creeam Cheese.
Fine Table Raixins,
Canned Frais of all kinds.
Oysters,
New Crop New Orleans Molasses.
fill orders at any time.
Bush House Block, - -
Buggies.
We will have a full supply of all Seasonable Goods night along and can
Groceries.
Al ll... AM. AM. Mi Mn Ml Mr.
WE ARE FULLY PREPARED FOR THE
——GENERAL TRADE——
Almonds and Nats of all kinds.
Figs.
Dates.
Citron.
Our Creamery Batter is as Fine
as Silk. .
Mince Meat, our own make, and
as fine as we can make it.
Pare Olive Oil.
Sauces, Pickles, Extracts, Olives,
Sardines.
We handle Schmidts Fine Bread,
Shaker Dried Corn.
Fine Cakes and Biscuit and a line
of carelully selected Confectionery,
YT
vr.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Insurance.
We have now on hand and for sale at
SURPRISINGLY LOW PRICE
A full line of the latest style of
both Open and Top Buggies and
a large los of
SECOND HAND DONE-OVERS
in good condition, and almost good
as new ones, which can be bad at
half price or less. We are also
headquarters for Rubber Tires.
OUR REPAIR SHOPS
are in active operation and ready
to accommodate all who have any-
thing in shis line of repair to do.
Prism reasonable and work of the
tb.
Goop Goons AT Low PRICES.
8. A. McQUISTION & CO.
52 20 6m.
Plumbing etc.
A. E. SCHAD
Fine Sanitary Plumbing,
Gas Fitting,
Furnace, Steam and Hot Water
Heating,
Slating, Roofing and Spouting,
Tinware of all kinds made to
order.
Estimates cheerfully furnished.
Both Phones.
2-43-1y
Eagle Block.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Green's Pharmacy.
NEV AND SECOND HAND BUGGIES
Bellefonte, Pa.
A HIT RBIS
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{ SUMMER REQUISITE
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{| Good Tarcum POWDER has become
~-
<a necessity. We carry in stock a
4 great variety of the leading brands,
4 such as
“Rexal” Violet, Sanitol,
Riveria, Mennen’s,
Colgate’s, Johnson's,
Booth's, Palmer's,
Erwin’s, &o., &o.
This mouth we are making a leader
of “REXAL VIOLET” at
19 CENTS
ET TT eT TT Te
lB A 0 Me lB BA
| It stands at the head of the list—it |
44-26-1y
4 should he in every home. ;
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$ You can only get it at
4 GREEN'S PHARMACY CO.,
d The Rexall Store,
s Bush House Block,
< BELLEFONTE, PA. :
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OFT DRINKS
The subscriber having put in a com-
h Soft
ant pea
SELTZER S8YPHONS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SODAS,
POPS, ETC,
Eo Fara of whieh are. manuiactured out
of the purest syrups and properly carbo-
The public is cordially invited to test
these drinks. Deliveries will be made
More TO LOAN on good seoarity free of charge within the limits of the
and houses for ren
t.
JM. REICHIINE
41 1y tt'y at Law.
SON
C MOERSCHRACHER,
5032-1y High Street, BELLE!
FONTE, PA,
HE PREFERRED ACCIDENT
INSURANCE CO.
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
Benefits :
$5,000 death by accident,
5,000 loss of both feet,
5,000 loss of both hands,
5,000 loss of ore hand and one foot
2,600 loss of either hand,
2,500 loss of either foot,
630 loss of one eye,
25 pot week, total disability
(limit 52 weeks.)
10 per 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
engaged in a preferred occupation, in.
cluding house-keeping, over eigh-
teen years of age of good moral and
physical condition may insure under
this policy.
FIRE INSURANCE
I invite your attention to wy fire
Insurance Agency, the strongest
and Most Extensive Line of Solid
Companies represented by any
agency in Central Penusylvania.
H. E. FENLON,
50-21 Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.
PAST LT AT BV MSTA
READ
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successors to Grant Hoover.)
FIRE,
LIFE,
AND
ACCIDENT
INSURANCE.
This Agency represents the largest
Fire JInrurance Companies in the
DOK 1
——NO ASSESSMENTS. —~—
Do not fail to give us a call hefore insuring
your Life or Property as we are in position
write large lines at any time,
Office in Orider's Stone Building,
43-18-1y BELLEFONTE, PA.
D W. WOODRING.
*
GENERAL FIRE INSURANCE.
Represents only the strongest and most
prompt paying companies. Gives reliable
insurance at the very lowest rates and pays
promptly when losses occur, Office at 118
East Howard street, Bellefonte, Pa. 52-30
Fine Job Printing.
—...
— ——
FINE JOB PRINTING
Owe A SPECIALTY 0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no style of work, frown the cheapest
Dodger to the fineet
1—BOOEK-WORK,—1
that we can not do in the most satisfactory man
ner, snd at
Prices consistent with the class of work. Call on
or communicate with this office.
JLES A cure guaranteed if you use
RUDYS PILE SUPPOSITORY