Bemorai tc “Bellefonte, Pa., September 25, 1908. Alma-Tadema’s Miraculous Eas- | cape From Death. ar———— FREAKS OF AN EXPLOSION. The Artist's House Was Wrecked, and How He Got Out Alive and Unin- jured Is a Mystery—The Puzzle of the Staircase and Hallway. In 1874 a canalboat carrying a hun- dred barrels of gunpowder along the Regent's park canal in London ex- ploded just opposite the magnificent house of Laurence Alma-Tadema, the famous artist, across the road. This happened at 4 o'clock on a rainy morn- ing. Every window in London within a radius of a mile was smashed, and the houses in the immediate vicinity, though solidly built of brick and stone. were wrecked. “] was sound asleep in bed at the time,” sald Alma-Tadema, “and the first 1 knew of the explosion was when 1 found myself standing out on the sidewalk in front of my house in the rain, with my pajamas on and bare feet. How 1 got there I never knew. The entire top of the brick wall in front of the lawn before my house was blown off, and the front of the house ftself was as if driven in by the blow of a giant's fist, “The canalboat, we found out after- ward, had blown up underneath a solid bridge that crossed the canal at that point. Had it not been for that my bouse and the others near it would have been utterly knocked to pleces. It was fortunate, too, that there was no one on the street at the time. Had the explosion occurred in the daytime hundreds of persons might have been killed or maimed. “But the strangest episode connected with the event concerned the map whose duty it was to keep watch on the bridge during the night. His name PARIS CABBIES. ————— The War of Words That Comes When They Block Each Other. There is no more entertaining way to . spend an idle hour in Paris than to get | into a taxicab and instruct the driver to go along some street where you will be reasonably sure to get into a jam or to bump against another cab. The charm of the experience is, of course, enhanced by your ignorance of what the cabbies say. . Should your driver merely graze the | i | | his seat and yell mellifivously at the other driver, who in turn will shout back an assortment of vowels. But the best is a quarrel between two cab- bles obstructing each other's way. The conversation, translated as nearly literally as is safe, goes In this wise: “Sacred name! Why do you? “Holly blue! 1 do not!” “Stomach on the ground! the face of an ox!” “Blue stomach! Are you in chains?’ “A bas! Name of a dog!” “Mon Dieu! Name of a pig!” “Wow (or words to that effect)! Name of a name!" “A thousand deaths! name of a name!” Now you begin to expect some do- ings. While you have not fully un- derstood, you are satisfied that nothing but pistols and knives will wipe out the insults. Unfortunately about this time the jam is untangled and you are allowed to drive away, but the other driver yells after yours: “Aha! You are a little plece of brown soap!” It seems that this expression is the “fighting name” in Paris. Were it not that your cabby owes a duty to you and must convey you to your destina- tion you know by his facial egpres- sion that he would climb down and get that other cabby and muss up the city with him. He contents himself with turning about and making a face in the direc- tion of his enemy and of going through the motion of spitting at him. Then he says “Yoop!" to the horse, You have Name of a was Peter Knox. He was thirty-seven years old, married and had two chil- | dren. 1 knew the fellow and had often | chatted with him on the bridge. The | day before the explosion he had ar- | ranged with a friend of his to come at 4 o'clock and relieve him. It was a Saturday, and he wanted to take his wife and children a little trip down to Bushey park on the Thames, and he wished to get to his home in east Lon- don in time so as to have breakfast and be off early on Sunday morning “Well, as 4 o'clock drew near, Peter, s0 he told me afterward, began to feel anxious lest his friend should have forgotten the appointment. He paced up and down the bridge and looked up the street, but the morning was so dark and misty with the rain that he could see only a short distance. A few minutes before 4, he said, he no- ticed a line of canalboats come slow- ly down toward the bridge, but paid no special attention to them. “Just before the first boat passed under the bridge he stepped off it, though in doing so he was infringing the regulations, and sauntered up the street in the direction from which he expected his friend to appear. He had gone about forty yards when the ex- plosion took place, and when he turned not a brick of the bridge was left. If he had been less impatient or if his friend had been mere prompt, one or both of them would never have been seen or heard of again. “But my own little adventure was singular enough. As I said. 1 was not conscious of having been awak- ened by the explosion, still less of having got out of bed, come down- stairs, opened the front door and step- ped out to the sidewalk. The shock had knocked all memory of these acts out of my head, and 1 have never re- covered it. “But what puzzled me most was the condition of things 1 found when ! went back into the house. The hall was a mass of wreckage, and the stair- case from top to bottom was covered with pleces of broken glass, sharp as razors and so distributed that 1 found it impossible to ascend without a light to show me where not to tread. “Nevertheless I had come down those same stairs, with my eyes shut or unseeing. and had never so much as scratched my bare feet. The thing was impossible, and yet 1 had done it. I had been skeptical about miracles before that, but since then I have been both a believer and an evangelist.” — Chicago Record-Herald. His Quietus. The bridegroom relaxed for a mo- ment his arm’s tense pressure. “What would you do,” he whispered hoarsely, “if by some terrible accident T should be drowned?’ In the mild moonlight he saw his young wife pale and shudder. “Oh, don't, Tom!" she cried. “How can you? You know I don’t look well in black.”"—Chicago Inter Ocean. Not Impressed. “l have been abroad In the best of soclety,” boasted the city youth, “Why even my trunks bear the Ishels of Bwitzerland.” “Gosh, that ain't nothing, sonny!" drawled his rural uncle. “So does a box of cheese.”—Chicago News. She Recalled an Instance. “Mrs. Peddicord,” sald that lady's husband, “did you ever say anything that you afterwsrd regretted saying?” “Certainly. 1 said ‘Yes' once and have been sorry for it ever since.”- Detroit Free Press, When a woman does it at home she calls it the “wash,” but when she sends it down town she calls it the “laundry.”—Atclfison Globe. and the war is over.—Chicago Post. THATCHING. The Ancient Art In the Low Countrizs and In England. Once upon a time two amateur bot- anists were hunting bog mosses on Exmoor, on the confines of the land of Lorna Doone. About the hour of luncheon thoy found that their enthu siasm had led them far afield, a good hour and a half from the farmhouse which they had made their temporary headquarters. The only place which vielded promise of food was a shep- herd's shack half a mile distant, so thither they went. That the shack, or, rather, its owner, a small, wiry, dark man with curly hair. could offer nothing better than brown bread, which was woefully “clit,” or heavy. and raw onions is neither here nor there. The point was that the roof of the shack was artistically thatched with layers of plaited reeds. “Feyther taught 1 th’ way to do un” explained the shepherd, with an up ward jerk of his thumb toward the roof. “An’ his feyther taught ‘im avore that, an’ his feyther avore that. an' back an’ back twill nobody ean think." “A hereditary art evidently,” said one of the moss hunters to his com- panion. “But I never saw thatches like these outside of the Low Countries. Safe bet that this fellow is of Dutch descent.” Then he said to the man of Devon, “And what is your name, may I ask? “Well,” replied the shepherd, “most volk call 1 Van, but ma right name be Henry Van Torp. They do say that ma gurt-grandfeyther were a-vitin' against England an’ were took prison er an’ mariied a Devon girl an’ set- tled 'ereabout”—he indicated the south- ward sweep of the moor—*“but these be a lot of vooligh tales to ma think. in"."—Craftsmaun. Constitutional Amendments MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP- PROVAL OR REJECTION BY THE GEN- ASSEMBLY OF COMMON- WEALTH OF ANA AED LISHED BY ORDER OF THE 'ARY of COMMONWEALT, IN PURSU- OF ARTICLE XVIII THE CON- STITUTION. NE. a o Samy: Srhmi) aud ur Section J eras asoived by the Sshate And House of tatives in Assembly met, That t following amendments to the Constitution of Pennsylvania and the same are bi with the ereby, proposed In sigiitennth + articie thereof:— by strik! out the said section and inserting in place f the following: Section 6. 2 extend to all proceedings at which shall have been instituted in eral num courts, shal to such chan subject to law, 3 il TY g : i : 5 iz ; ; 5 i i ly 5 53 : ik] wheels of another cab he will turn on. Constitutional Amendments ERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON- Ww TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, PUB- LIS, BY ORDER UF THE SECRETARY OF THE ONWEALTH, IN PURSU- ANCE OF ARTICLE XVII OF THE CON- STITUTION. NUMBER TWO. A JOINT RESOLUTION an amendment to the Constitution oi the Commonwealth, allowing counties, cit- sy Ee incorporated districts, or er nm or to increase their indebtedness. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That section eight, article nine, of the Scion as follows:— wealth of Pennsyivania, “Section 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, to , school or other municipality or incorporated d except as herein provided, shall never exceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein; nor shall any such municipality or district incur any new debt or increase its ness to an amount ex- ceeding two per centum upon such valuation of property, without the assent of the electors thereof at a public mn, in uch manner as shall be by law; but any city, the debt of which now exceeds seven per centum such valua- tion, may be authorized by law to Increase the same three per centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation,” be amended, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article of sald Constitution, #0 that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: — Section 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never exceed ten per property therein; nor shall any such municipal- ity or district incur any new debt or increase fis indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such assessed valuation of property without the assent of the electors thereof at a public election, in such manner 9s slali be provided by aw. a Ko. true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2. y ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 70 THE CONSTITUTION CITIZENS OF A NWESLTH FOR THEIR § C ‘Ww . TH SO*OR REJECTION BY THE GEN- ERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON- WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, PUB- LISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU- ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON- STITUTION. NUMBER THREE, A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing amendments to sections eight and twenty-one of article four, sections eleven and twelve of article five, sections two, three, and fourteen of article eight, section one of article twelve, and sections two seven of article fourteen, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and providing a schedule for carrying the amendments into effect. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following are proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article there- of i= .ndment One—To Article Four, Section Ame Eight, Amend section eignt of article 0 Section 2. which four of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, eads as follows:— ? “He shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of the Commonwealth and an Attorney Gen- eral during pleasure, a Superintendent of Pub- lc Instruction for four years, and such other officers of the Commonwealth us he is or may be authorized by the Constitution or by law iv appoint; he shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen, in offices to which he may appoint, during the recess of by granting commissions which at the end of thelr next session; power to fill any vacancy that of the Senate, State Treas- the Senate, shall are he ave may happen, during the recess in the office of Auditor General, = urer, Secretary of Internal Affairs or Super intendent of Public Instruction, a & Judicia) office, or in any other elective office whic he is or may be authorized to fill; if the yao cancy shall happen during the session of ihe Senate, the Governor shall nominate to the Senate, before their final adjournment, proper person to fill said vacancy: but iu uy such case of vacancy, in an elective of ogy a person shall be chosen to sald office a the next general election, unless the vaGancy shall happen within three calendar months immediately preceding such election, n_whieh case the election for said office shall } a at the second succeeding general election. in acting or executive nominations the pat shall sit with open doors, and, in gonfiyin! 8 or rejecting the nominations of the ar nor, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered on the journal, as to read as follows: — "He shall nominate and, by and hg 3he advice and consent of two-ul irds of members of the Senate, appoint a Secretaty of the Commonwealth and an Attorney on eral during pleasure, a Superintendent o Public Instruction for four years, and Sach other officers of the Commonwealth as he 3b or may be authorized by the Constitution by aw to appoint; he shall have pow to Hi all vacancies that may happen, in offices to which he may appoint, during the Yeguss of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; he shall have power to fill any yacuaey that may happen, durin the recess of the Senate, in the office of Auditor General, State areas urer, Secretary of Internal Affairs or per, {ntendent of Public Instruction, adietal office, or in any other elective office w ich or may be authorized to fill; if the vacancy Shall happen during the session of the Senate, the Governor shall nominate to the Senate, before their final adjournment, a proper per- gon to fill said vacancy; but in any such case of vacancy, in an elective office, a person shall be chosen to said office on the next elec- tion day appropriate to such office, according to the provisions of this Constitution, unless the vacancy shall happen within two calendar months immediately preceding such election day, in which case the election for sald office shall be held on the second ing election day appropriate execu or rejecting SRE Shire on he Jou 1 ente " Amendment Tur io Atticle Pus, Section Section 3. Amend Section oo uLy-ane of article four, which reads as OWS {= “The term of the Secretary of Internal Af- fairs shall be four years; of the Auditor Gen- eral three years; and of the State Treasurer two years. These officers shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the State at gen- eral elections. No person elected to the office of Auditor General or State Treasurer shall be capable of holding the same office for two cutive terms,” so as to read:— The terms of the Secretary of Internal Af- fairs, the Auditor General, the State Treasurer shall each be four years; and they shall be chosen the q electors of the State at general elections; but a State year thereafter. of Auditor or State be capable 04 holding the same office for consecu terms. we endment Three—To Article Five, Section Am ven. 4. Amend section eleven of article reads as follows:— n and he xe UN hs tow) a e 0 pid of the ified electors . such manner as shall directed vee 1 a five years So So or & - ship, e et or borough shall elect more tan two justices of ye peace or alder- w office as ip: eh his election nex ng . containing over fifty thousand Inhabitants, not more than one alderman shall be elected in each ward or district,” so as to read:— Except as otherwise provided in this Con- stitution, justices of the peace or aldermen be elected In the several wards, dis- . boroughs or townships, by the qualified at the municipal election, be directed law district. Amendment Youre Article Five, Section weive, Section 5. Amend section twelve of article five of the Constitution, which reads as fol- OWS i= “In Philadelphia there each hy thousand of record, be established habitants, and civil ; centumn upon the assessed value of the taxable | — ' Constitutional Amendments only by fixed salaries, to be paid sald A ra except as provided, ised subject to is now exerc aldermen, , not involving an increase of yA changes civil jurisdiction or conferring as may be made by law, of alderman abolished,”” #0 as to read follows = and the municipal election, by the qualified at Jafge: and in the election of the ald magistrates no voter s vote for more n two-thirds of the number of shall be compensated only by fixed sal. aries, to be pa y sald county; and exercise such jurisdiction, civil and criminal, exce as herein provided, as is now exer cl by aldermen, subject to such changes, not involving an increase of civil jurisdic. tion or conferring political duties, as may of i ¥ tes shed. Amendment ve Article Eight, Section 0, Section 6. Amend section two of article eight, which reads as follows: — **The general election shall be held annually on the Nenday Dest following the first Mon- of November, but the General Assembly may by law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each House consenting Hijeto, 80 M i Jead: - e general election shall be held biennlall the Tuesday next following the first od day of November in each even-numbered year, but the General Assembly uay by law fix a different day, two-thirds of ail the members of each House consenting thereto: Provided, That such election shall always be held in an SVE IDeTed Leal mendment Bix—To Article Eight, Section Three. Section 7. Amend section three of article eight, which reads as follows: — “All elections for city, ward, borough and township officers, for regular terms of ser. vice, shall be held on the third Tuesday of February,” so as to read:— All judges elected by the electors of the State at large may be elected at either a general or municipal election, as circum- stances may require. All elections for judges of the courts for the several judicial districts, and for county, city, ward, borough, and township officers, for regular terms of service, shall be held on the municipal election day; namely, the Tuesday next following the first Mondel of November In each odd-numbered year, but the General Assembiy may by law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the mem. bers of each House Sondeuting thereto: Pro. vided, That such election shall always be held in an odd-numbered year. Amendment Seven—To Article Eight, Section Fourteen. Section 5. Amend section fourteen of article eight, which reads as follows: District’ election boards shall consist of a Judge and two Inspectors, who shall be chosen dongs by the citizens. Each elector shall have the right to vote for the judge and one inspector, and each inspector shall appoint one clerk. The first election board for any new district shall be selected, and vacancies in election boards filled as shall be provided by law. Election officers shall be privileged from arrest upon days of election, and while engaged in making up and transmitting ree turns, except upon warrant of a court of record or judge thercof, for an election fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace, In cities they may claim exemption, from jury duty during the terms of service,” so as to read i—- District election boards shall consist of a Judge and two inspectors, who shall be chosen biennially, by the citizens at the municipal election; but the General Asembly may re. quire sald boards to be appointed manner as it may by law provide. Laws regulating the appointment of sald boards may be enacted to apply to cities only: Provided, Thuet such laws be uniform for cities of the same class. Each elector shall have the right to vote for the judge and one inspector, and each inspector shall appoint one clerk. The first election board for any new district shall be selected, and vacancies in election boards filled, as shall be provided by law. Election officers shall be privileged from arrest upon days of election, and while engaged in making up and transmitting returns, except upon war. rant of a court of record, or judge thereof, for an election fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace. In cities they may claim exemption from jury duty during their terms of service, Amendment Big-Te Article Twelve, Section ne. Section 8. Amend section one, article twelve, which reads ss follows: — “All officers, whose selection is not provided for in this Constitution, shall be elected or Appointed as may be directed by law,’ so as O IeaGi- All officers, whose, selection Is not provided for in this Constitution, shall be elected or aphojnted as may de directed by law: Pro- vided, That elections of State officers shall be held on a general election day, and elec- tions of local officers shall be held on a muni. cipal election day, except when, in either case, special elections may be required to fill unex. pired terms. Amendment Nine—To Article Fourteen, Section wo. Section 10. Amend section two of article fourteen, which reads as follows:— “County officers shall be elected at the gen- eral elections and shall hold their offices for the term of three years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after thelr election, and until their successors shail be duly quali. fled; all vacancies not otherwise provided for, shall be filled In such manner as may be pro- vided by law,” so as to read:— County officers shall be elected at the municl- pal elections and shall hold their offices for the tegym of four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors shall be duly quall- fled: all vacancies not otherwise Droviged for, shall be filled in such manner as may be pro- vided by law, Amendment Ten—To Article Fourteen, Section ven. Section 11. Amend Section seven, article fourteen, which reads as follows:— tS a Te ACA eke county © en where such officers a i ar fter; the cers each qualified elector shall vote for no more than two ns, the three persons having the hi, number of votes shall be el : Any casual vacancy in the office of county commissioner or county auditor shall be filled, by the court of com- mon pleas of the county In which such vacancy shall occur, by the appointment of an elector 9% the Dre E Iounty Whe, Shall have voted for ner or au w! to be Bilas’ 30 a3 $0 4 Blase ‘is ree county commissioners and three coun sudisers shall be elected in Sash county ay officers are chosen. e year one sand nine hundred and eleven year thereafter; and and e fourth in the election of sald shall no a Yuahled and the thee ar WO persons, sons having highest number of votes | ; any casual in elected vacancy the office of county commissioner or county auditor shall be filled, by the court of common of the county in which such vacancy occur, by the appointment of an elector of the proper county who shall have voted for the commis. or auditor whose place is to be filled. Schedule for the Amendmen ule for ts, Section 12. That no inconvenience may arise from the changes in the Constitution of the Commonwealth, and in order to carry the same inte complete operation, it is hereby declared, In the case of officers elected by the people, all terms of office fixed by act of Assembly at an odd number of years shall each be I one Legislatu ch such always be for an even number of rs. t frect Mice a ome general elec not a officers at the e Sm or Sue thousand nine hundred ond eight; , ward, borough, township, or elec. i PO oes ate Tae nder existing law, n one . sand nine hundred and ten. on + In He year Os, thousnmd Dine nuhdted and en the municipal el on shal eld on the third Tuesday of February, as heretofore: officers chosen at that election to an lar term of which is two years, and also all election officers and assessors chosen at that election, shall serve until the first Monday of December, in the r one thousand nine hundred and eleven. All officers chosen a that election to offices $> proval of these amendments, may end in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday of Decem- ber of that year, the courts for the several All of podictal dlsttet. Re so an towity Stficend: office at the date of the approval Pe eo Whose terms of office end In'the year ons thousand nine hundred ant the first M of a nine hundred and twelve. A true copy of Joint Resolution No, 2%. OBERT McAFEE Secretary of the Commonwealth. in such | Bellefonte Shoe Emporium, FREE! FREE! $250.00 WORTH OF PRESENTS WILL BE GIVEN AWAY FREE ON SALES MADE AT OUR STORE FROM AUGUST 15th TO OCTOBER 15th, '08, inclusive. pe. With each 50 cent purchase will be given a numbered ticket, and on October 16th the fol- lowing valuable articles will be distributed . Ouve $10 Single Barreled Breech Loadi . merless Shot Guo. po One $100 Harmony De Luxe Talki ing- Machine. 1 ing Wed Sing One Set of Records worth $30. Ove $25 Drop-Head Sewing Machine. One $15 Velour Upholstered Morris Chair. Oue $15 20x40 Beveled Plate Mirror. One $12 42 Piece China Dioner Set. Ove $10 Wasbiog Machine. One $10 Velour Upholstered Conch. One $8 Art Square. One $5 Rog. Two $6 Decorated Parlor Lamps. Two $4 Pairs Irish Point Lace Curtains. One $6 Chocolate Set. This is an unprecedented opportunity given our friends, and is made in recognition of their liberal patronage during the past year, Don't forget the date of distribution—October 16th, 'o8. YEAGER'S SHOE STORE, successor to Yeager & Davis. Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA. Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. ~ Lyon &. Company. Special Opening of Fine EMBROIDERIES We have just received 2011 yards of fine Em- broideries in matched setts. These were bought at a loss of 33 per cent. to the importer. We are going to sell these to you at the 33 per cent. loss. All widths from the narrowest up to 17 inch flouncings. mami si { 3{) ammmmemmmmm—" We are showing everything new in DRESS GOODS Chiffon, Broad Cloth, all the new colors in Chev- rons, Stripes, and Herring Bone weaves. The newest in Coats for Ladies’, Misses’ and Children. New Clothing, Hats and Caps for Men, Youths and Boys. New Shoes for Men, Women, Children and Boys. We also sell the celebrated Lenox Shoe for Misses and Children. We invite every buyer to see our stock before they buy. LYON & COMPANY, 17-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.
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