Bema ada Bellefonte, Pa., July 31, 1908. The Four Sections That Divide the United States. Every nation has its own time stand- ard, but the United States has four. These time sections, as they are called, sere introduced in the year 1883, chiefly for the benefit of the railroads, and are known as the eastern, central, mountain and Pacific The eastern section extends from the Atlantic coast to an irregular line drawn from De- troit to Charleston, 8. C.; the central includes all between this line and an- other extending from Bismarck, N. D.. to the mouth of the Rio Grande river, the mountain extends from here to the western boundary of Montana, Idaho, Ttah and Arizona, and the Pacific in- eludes all the remainder of the coun- try to the Pacific coast The difference in time between ad- joining sections is one hour, so that when it is 12 o'clock in New York city it is 11 o'clock at Chicago, 10 o'clock at Denver and 9 o'clock at San Francisco. The true local time of any place Is slower or faster than the standard time, according as the place is west or east of the time meridian. Thus the Jocal time at Boston is sixteen minutes faster than eastern standard time, while at Buffalo it is sixteen minutes slower.—Harper's Weekly. WINNING A COAT. The Clever Scheme That Was Worked by a French Thief. A Frenchman had been attending the Comedie Francaise, and after the per- formance he took a gloom)® byway in order to make a short cut to the Bou- levard Montmartre. He noticed as he | hastened through the dark a slight tug on his coattail, but to this he paid no attention. When he reached the bright boulevard, however, he found, to his great mortification, that one tail of his clawhammer coat had been cut off. He notified a journalist of his loss, and the next morning an account of the odd theft appeared in the Figaro. That afternoon a man in a blue uniform called on him. “1 come, monsieur,” the man said, | “from the bureau of police. We have | captured a suspicious character who | bad in his pocket a piece of fine black | eloth. Let me have your mutilated | coat, sir. If the piece fits it, we will | know that we have apprehended the | man who robbed you.” i The other surrendered his coat, and | from that Gay to this he heard no more about it. The pretended official was, | of course, the thief, who bad adopted | that aduacious means of getting the | coat In order to atach to it the pur-! loined tail. Who Knows? Alice toiled slowly up the stairs, pa- per and pencil in hand, ready to ask questions of the first person she en- countered. Being just =ix, she was at | the inquiring age and endeavored to | make everybody's life a burden to | them. The first person she encountered was Bridget, the upstairs girl, “Pwease, Bwidget,” she piped, “gif me ve letters of ve alfabit.” Slowly and impressively complied. “An' now, Bwidget,” proceeded Alice, “pwense gif me ve letters vat ain't in ve afabit.” Bridget thought. Then she thought again. She was puzzled. Finally she said: “I'l tell ye tomorrow,” and went down to ask cook.—London Queen, Bridget The Colonies—In English Eyes. The average Englishman, and it is surprising in what numbers he exists, has a vague conception of colonies gen- erally. He has some hazy notions of Virginian plantations and transporta- tion settlements and crown colonies where a peppery military man of the old school takes up the white man's burden by holding autocratic sway over unclad barbarians. The concep- tions are more often than not fifty years behind the times.—Sydney Lone Hand. The Oldest Jury. The oldest Greek poet has left us a picture of what the jury was in his time. The primitive court is sitting, and the question is “guilty” or “not guilty.” The old men of the commu- nity give their opinions in turn. The adjudicating democracy, the commons, standing round about, applaud the opinions which strike them most, and the applause determines the decision. Such was probably the earliest form of jury. The British Drama. It is absolutely true that the British public goes to the theater to be amused, not to be instructed. It considers that it pays its money to be amused, and it sullenly resents the presence of any powder in the jam. It is when this atti- tude changes that the great renaissance of the British drama will arrive.—Lon- don Graphic. Hospitality. “Use one teaspoonful of this cocoa in hot water every day. The can will last thirty days” “But suppose there's missis ?” “Why, then, of course, use more hot water.” —Fliegende Blatter. company, Advantage of Position. “Where have you been all after- noon?’ “Music hall-piano recital.” “Infernally tiresome, wasn’t it?” “Not at all. I was the pianist."— A WILD RACE. When the First Pony Express Was Nearing Sacramento. Cornelius Cote, ex-senator from Cali- fornia, tells in his memoirs how the first “pony express” reached Sacra- mento, Cal., long before the first trans- continental railroad was surveyed: “Those who were there to witness it will never forget the arrival of the first of these express messengers at Sacramento. It was an occasion of great rejoicing, and everybody, big and little, old and young, turned out to tee the fun. All business for the time was suspended. Even the courts ad journed for the event. A large num- ber of the citizens of all classes, grave and gay, mounted on fast horses, rode out some miles on the line to meet the incoming wonder. “The waiting was not long. The lit tle rider upon his blooded charger, un- der whip and spur, came down upon them like a meteor, but made not the slightest halt to greet his many visit- ors. Then began a race of all that waiting throng over the stretch back to the city, the like of which has never been seen. It may have been rivaled in speed and confusion by some of the cavalry disasters during the war that presently followed, but the peaceful people of Sacramento, I am sure, never bekeld anything of the kind before or afterward. “The whole cavalcade, shouting and cheering, some waving banners and bareheaded, riding at the top of thelr speed, dashing down J street, might have been taken, had it occurred on the plains, for a band of wild Co- manches, but the little mall carrier paid no attention to them and kept in the lead.” A ROMANCE IN TIN. One Man's Fortune From the Price of a Pair of Shoes. Some years ago a man who had started in business in Tasmania found that he could not meet his engage- ments and was compelled to call a meeting of his creditors. Among his assets were a number of Mount Birschoff tin mine shares, which were regarded as worthless. It was the first tin mine discovered in Tasmania, and the output was not as heavy as the prospectus declared fit would be. The shares dropped in value, and when the debtor offered them to his creditors the latter refused to touch them. Among the creditors was a poor shoemaker who had supplied the man with a pair of shoes. He offered to take the shares in payment of his debt. No one raised any objection, and he took the shares, saying, “They may turn out well some day.” Five years later, under proper man- agement, the mine developed into a valuable property. It was a veritable mountain of tin, and the shares sprang up to an astonishing point, Eventually the metal was “cornered” by a French syndicate, and, the shares reaching a fabulous price, the once indigent shoemaker sold out and real- ized a fortune. The money was wisely invested, and now he is in the enjoyment of an in- come of several thousands a year de- rived from the payment for a pair of shoes valued at $3.—London Telegraph. Absolute Obesity. There is a member of the faculty of a certain university who, to use the words of a colleague, “is as rotund physically as he is profound metaphys- feally.” One day the professor chanced to come upon his children, of whom he has a number, all of whom were, to his astonishment, engaged In an earnest discussion of the meaning of the word “absolute.” “Dad,” queried one of the youngsters, “can a man be absclutely good?" “No,” replied the father. “Dad,” put In another youngster, “can a man be absolutely bad?” “No.” “Papa,” ventured the third child, a girl, “can a man be absolutely fat?” Whereupon father fled incontinently. —Philadelphia Ledger. Making Hubby Appreciative. A doctor tells of a note he received from a woman saying that her hus- band, who was about to make him a professional call, found constant fault with the dinner she prepared for him. She appealed to the physician for aid. The doctor examined his patient, who had a slight attack of indigestion, and told him to cut out lunches, to eat nothing but a slice of toast and a cup of tea. The scheme worked excellent- ly. Of course hubby returns home in the evening, eats everything in sight and votes his wife's cooking even bet- ter than mother used to make.—Bos- ton Record. Property Rights. Private property, in the shape in which we know it today, was chiefly formed by the gradual disentanglement of the separate rights of individuals from the blended rights of a ,communi- ty. There is every reason for believ- ing that property once belonged not to individuals or even the isolated fam- flies, but to the patriarchal soclety as a whole. In other words, property was at first communistic rather than personal.—New York American. Needed Airing. “What's the matter with you?" de- manded Borem hotly. “I've got a right to air my opinions, haven't 1?” “Oh, of course,” replied Brightly. “They're so stale and musty they cer- tainly need something of that sort.”— Philadelphia Press. Practice not your art and twill soon depart.—German Proverb, Chicago Tribune. Woodiots in Japan. In these times of great drains on the tim- her supply, Sauned by the heavy demand for forest products of all kinds, Americans may see in Japan an example of what can be done in growing wood on small plots. That country contains 21,000,000 wood- lots, about three fourths of which belong to private persons and one fourth to com- muuves. The average size of the plots is less than nine tenths of an sore. They usually oo- cupy the steepest, roughest, poorest ground. In way land is put to use which would otherwise go to waste, and if wnwooded would lose ite soil by the wash of the dash- ing rains. From Japan's woodlots the yearly yield of lumber is about eighty-eight feet, board measure, per acre, and three fourths ofa cord of firewood. In many cases the yield is much higher. More than hall a billion s1ees are planted yearly to make up what is cut for lumber and fuel. Assessment for taxation is low, averaging for the 21,000,- 000 lots less than a dollar an sere. With all the care in catting, and the in- dustry in replanting, it is by no means certain that Japan's forests are holding their own. If the preservation of the for- este ie doubtful there, it is evident thas depletion must be alarmingly rapid in other countries which cut unsparingly and plant very little. On the other hand, is is encouraging to see what can be done with rough, steep and poor land. The United States bas enough of thas kind, without touching the rich agricultural acres, to grow billions of feet of lumber. — Advocate. -——A New England clergyman was tak- iog breakfast one Sunday morning in a hotel in a little Western town, says Apple- ton's Monthly. A rough old fellow across the table called over to him : ‘Goin’ to the races, stranger ?’’ The clergyman replied : **I don’s expect 10.” ‘Goin’ to the ball game 2’ “No.” ‘Well, where are you goin’ ?" “I'm going to church.” “Where do you come from ?"’ ‘“New England.” ‘Ob, that explains it! That's where they keep the Sabbath and every other blamed thing they can lay their bands on.”’ ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Hood's Sarsaparilla. Hors SARSAPARILLA 40,366 People RECOMMEND IT For the blood, for lost appetite, for that tired feeling, rheumatism and other troubles—that number having written us in two years telling of cures and remarka- ble benefit from it. 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