Bellefonte, Pa., October 23, 1908.
RAT CATCHERS.
One of the Methods by Which They
Make Big Hauls.
“Rat catchers, like horse tamers, try
to make a mystery of their trade,” said
a zoo keeper.
He pointed toward the large gray
rats that played about the corners of
the carnivora house.
“But they can’t mystify me in any
phase of the rat question,” he went on.
“Living as 1 do, surrounded by an
army of the largest, finest rats, I know
the animals too thoroughly. I could set
up as a successful rat catcher tomor-
Tow.
“This is the way the men work.
They go to the infested place late at
night with a pair of tongs, a powerful
lantern and a lot of bags.
“They walk softly about in the dark-
ness, and they make a low, chattering,
whistling noise, like this.”
At the sound all the rats in the cor
ners of the big room looked at the
keeper inquiringly. He went on:
“This is the signal whereby a rat
tells his mates that he has hit on good
feeding. That sound made in the dark
gathers rats as molasses gathers flies.
The catcher, having made it, opens his
strong lantern, the rats are dazed by
the light, and he picks them up with
his tongs and drops them in his bag.
“Of course there are other ways to
catch rats, but of the secret, mysteri-
ous ones this is the best.” —Exchange.
A CEYLON PLAGUE.
“The Land Leeches Are Worse Than the
Snakes or Mosquitoes.
It is nearly always the case that ex-
ceedingly beautiful countries are over-
run by different kinds of pests. Beau-
tiful Ceylon has mosquitoes said to be
the most adroit and audacious in the
world and spakes and a thousand more |
plagues of poor human beings, but the |
worst of them all is a species of leech.
. The Ceylon land leech is a thin crea-
ture about two inches long and very
nimble and flexible. It will crawl up a
man's leg and, traveling underneath
the clothing, will climb as high as the
throat. These leeches do not crawl like
the leeches that are known to medi-
cine, but rear themselves up on their
tails to watch for prey and walk off to
attack it with amazing rapidity. In
walking through the jungle hosts of
them may be seen by the roadside,
where they wait to victimize cattle.
Horses, it is said, are driven half wild
by them, as also are palanquin bearers
and coolies, whose bare legs are their
favorite resort, the men's hands being
too engaged to pull them off. The
leeches may be seen hanging round
their ankles, from which tiny trickles
of blood run over the foot.—London
Standard.
Rapid Transit.
An express on a certain railroad was
tearing away at a wild and awe inspir-
ing rate of six miles an hour, when ali
of a sudden it stopped altogether. Most
of the passengers did not notice the
difference, but one of them happened
to be somewhat anxious to reach his
destination before old age claimed him
for its own. He put his head through
the window to find that the cause of
the stop was a cow on the track. After
awhile they continued the journey for
half an hour or so, and then—another
stop.
“What's wrong now?” asked the im-
patient passenger of the conductor.
: “A cow on the track.”
“But I thought you drove it off.”
| “So we did,” said the conductor, “hut
we caught up with it again.”"—Ladies’
Home Journal.
The Cheapest Way.
“Thyet tobacco ye're smokin’ hae »
richt bonnie smell, Wullie,” said the
Caledonian tradesman.
“Aye!” assented Willie. “An’ it's guid
tobacco and cheap. In fact, I get it
cheaper than the tobacconist hissel’!”
“Hoots, mon!” exclaimed the know-
ing tradesman. “That's an impossi-
beelity! Ye canna’ get it cheaper than
the tobacconist hissel'! It isna likely.”
“Aye, but 1 do,” asserted Willie, low-
ering his voice. *“Ye see, there hap-
pens to be a brither o' my ain wife's in
the shop!”
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ayes
Breaking It Gently. i
“l understand, sir, that you are the
possessor of a swollen fortune.”
“Well,” grufly answered the beauti-
ful girl's father, “what is that to you?”
“1 merely thought that 1 would give
you due notice of my intention to help
take the swelling out of it. Myrtle and
I are going to be married.”"-Chinago
Record-Herald.
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Quite Likely. ©
“] didn’t see you at our euchre the
other night,” said the bachelor.
“No,” replied the young Benedict, “as
far as euchre goes with me now, I con-
sider ‘home’ the right bower.”
“That's all right while hearts are
trump, but 1 suppose If clubs should
turn up it would be the left bower.” —
Philadelphia Press,
Dangerous.
First Actor—I thought your next tour
was to have been through South Af-
rica. Second Actor—It was, but the
company struck. One of them had read
that an ostrich egg often weighs two
or three pounds.
Corrected.
“] wish I had never learned to play
cards,” exclaimed a man who had been
unfortunate at the game.
“You mean you wish you had learned,
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Names In Alaska.
Life in Alaska Is uncouth in parts,
but it has its refinements. In Valdes
there lived a man named Jake, who
kept a boarding house for dogs. When
the prospectors returned from their
sled trips they would place their teams
in his charge until ready to start out
again. As he fed his guests on gar-
bage gathered by a house to house can-
vass, he was known by every one as
“Slop Jake.”
Once upon a time he fell ill, and the
newspaper wished to chronicle the fact,
No one, however, knew Jake's other
name, and it didn’t seem worth while
to waste the time of the editorial staff
on so insignificant a detail. So the
news was printed thus:
“Our well known fellow citizen, S.
Jake, is confined to his house with a
severe cold. It is hoped he will be cut
soon.” —New York Times.
Fooling the Beans.
A Yankee of the quaint old time type
was preparing to bestow a coat of
whitewash on his henhouse one spring
long ago. He had completed the mix-
ing of the whitewash, a writer in the
Manchester Union says, and, looking
round for something on which to try
it, picked up a bean pole and ran the
brush over it. Another local character,
who was driving by, stopped his horse
and called out: “Hello! What ye white-
washing your bean poles for?”
“Thought everybody knew that beaus
grow better on birch poles,” returned
the other without pausing in his work.
“Ye don’t expect to make birch poles
that way, do ye?”
“Mebbe not, but whitening of ‘em 'll
make the beans think the poles are
birch anyhow.”
Origin of Cemeteries.
In ancient times burials were alway:
outside the walls of a city or town.
Indeed, before the time of Christianity
ft was not lawful to bury the dead
within the limits. About the end of
the sixth century St. Augustine obtain
ed of King Ethelbert a temple of idols
—used by the king before his conver-
sion—and made a burying place of it,
and St. Cuthbert afterward obtained
leave of the pope (A. D. 752) te have
yards made to the churches suitable
for the burial of the dead.
The Little Ones.
It was a bright and very original lit-
tle boy named Barber, who, upon hear-
ing his father speak of “their neighbor.
Mr. Wood and his children, the little
splinters,” and of another neighbor,
“Mr. Stone and the little pebbles,” re-
marked: “I suppose if they met papa
they would say: ‘Good morning, Mr.
Barber. How are all the little shav-
ers?”
His Advantage.
“You can't spell long words like hip-
popotamus and parallelogram,” sald
the little boy who wore spectacles and
a sailor suit.
“Well,” answered the boy who was
leading a dog by a piece of rope, “dat's
where I'm lucky. I don’t have to.”
Four Kinds of Trouble.
Judge—What have you to say as to
the charge that while the husband of
one woman you married three others?
Bigamist — Simply this—that having
four of a kind isn't what it is cracked
up to be.
Neo School.
The teacher was giving an exposi-
tion on culpable homicide.
“If T went out in a small boat,” he
sald. “and the owner knew {it was
leaking, and I got drowned. what
would that be?”
After a few minutes’ silence a little
boy stood up and said:
“A holiday, sir?”
An Invitation.
Fred—Last night as you stood in the
moonlight 1 couldn't help but think
how much 1 would like to kiss you.
Freda -- Well, the poet says. “The
thought of yesterday is the action of
today.”
Constitutional Amendments
jdon’t you?’ was his wife's rejoinder.
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Constitutional Amendments
WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, PUB
LISHED BY OF THE SECRETARY
OF THE COMMONWEALT IN PURSU-
ANCF OF ARTICLE XVII THE CON-
STITUTION.
IER OTS:
amended, In accordance with the provisions
of the eighteenth article of sald Constitution,
so that sald section, when .
read as follows:—
Section 8. The debt of any county, city,
h, township, school district, or other
municipality district, except
as shall be provided by .
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OF
THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP-
PROVAL OR REJECTION BY THE GEN-
ERAL ASSEMBLY
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OF THE COMMON-
PUB-
"HE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU-
ANCE oF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON-
STITUTION.
NUMBER
THREE.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposi| amendments to sections eight and
Tally 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 and
seven of article fourteen, of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania, and providing a schedule
for carrying the amendments into effect.
en of Pennsylvania, in ac
onw .
the provisions of the eighteenth article there-
of endment One—To Article Four, Section
Eight.
2. Amend section elgnt of article
_— Hi the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which
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 Becretary
of the Commonwealth and an Attorney Gen-
eral during pleasure, & Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction for four years, and such other
officers of the Commonwealth as he is or
may be authorized by the Constitution or by
law to appoint: he shall nave power to fill
11 vacancies that may ’
“hich he may appoint, Ing the recess Of
the Senate, by granting commissions wh
shall expire at the end of
he shall have power 'o fill any
may happen, during the recess
in the ce of As itor General,
urer, Secretary of In
' Public Instruction, mn a §
pg i any other elective office which
he is or may be authorized 3
cancy shall happen during the session
Senate, the Gov shall
before ig 0) cancer:
to sa H
Dn cane of vacancy, in an elective office,
Wane san oti n on ae CS oy
t eral election,
I within three months
Senate,
b;
and consent of two-t irds of
ar of the Senate, appoint a y
of the Commonwealth and an Attorney Gen
eral during pleasure, @ Superintenden
Instruction for four years, and such
IRC officers of the he is
Commonwealth as
may be authorized by the Constitution or
law to appoint: he shall have
Poets
that may happen, in
ap yg vB appoint, during the recess
nate, by gran commissions which
shall expire at the end o
he
and with the
all the
their next session;
power to fill any vacanc
nr dari the recess of the te,
> itor General, State
ternal Affairs or Super
such office,
Conatitation, unless
vacancy | happen within two
mon! mediately preceding such election
i te the election for said
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terms.
Three—To Article Five, Section
leven.
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That such election shall always be held in an
even-numbered year.
Amendment Six—To Article Eight, Section
Three.
Section 7. Amend section
as follows: —
eight, which reads
“All elections for city, ward, h and
township officers, for lar terms of ser-
vice, shall be held on 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,
township officers, for regular terms of service,
shall be held on the municipal election day;
namely, the Tuesday next followi the first
Monday of November in each -numbered
year,
t the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all the mem.
bers of each House consenting thereto: Pro.
vided, That such election shall always be
held in an odd-numbered year.
Amendment Seven—To Article Eight, Section
ou n
rteen.
Section 8. 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
annually 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 be
from arrest upon days of election, and
engaged in making up and transmitting re- |
turns, except upon warrant of a court of
record or judge thereof, for an election fraud, i
for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace.
In cities they may claim exemption, from jury
uty during the terms of service,” so as to
read —
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 said boards to be appointed in such
manner as it may by law provide. Laws
regulating the appointment of said may
be enacted to apply to cities only: Provided,
That such laws 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 Friviliged rom 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 . In cities they may
claim exemption from jury duty during their
terms of service,
Amendment Eight—To Article Twelve, Section
Section 9, Amend section one. article twelve,
which reads as 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
to read:—
All officers, whose selection is not provided
for in this Constitution, shall be elected or
appointed 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
0.
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 their election,
and until thelr successors shall be duly quall-
fied; all vacancies not otherwise provi 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 term of four years, beginning on the first
Monday of January next after their election,
and until their successors shall be urs quali-
fled; all vacancies not otherwise provided for,
shall be filled in such manner as may be pro-
vided aw,
Amendment Ten—To Article Fourteen, Section
Seven.
Section seven,
Section 11. Amend article
fourteen, which reads as follows:—
“Three three coun-
county commissioners
ty auditors shall be elected in each county
the three persons having the h number
of votes shall be ; any
in the office of cou missioner or county
mon pleas of the county in
shall occur, by the appointment of an elector
r county who shall have voted
itor whose place
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Lvon & Co.
Lyon &. Company.
When you Come to Town
don’t forget to come and visit our great
store. We have bargains for all.
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We are showing the finest line of
Ladies and Misses Coat Suits
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's new style Win-
ter Coats.
A fine assortment of the newest weaves in
DRESS GOODS
and Cloths.
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SPECIAL.
We have just bought from an Eastern manufactur-
er 130 pairs of Children’s Shoes, sizes from 4 to
8 1-2. These shoes were sold for $1.00 per pair.
We bought them so we can sell them to you for
65 cents per pair. Come in and look them over
and don't wait until the sizes are broken but
come now while we have all sizes. Also a large
line of
Men's and Boy’s Shoes.
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We are showing everything new in Men's and
Boy's Clothing. Our stock of Winter Under-
wear is complete.
Comfortables from 98 cents up.
Blankets ““ 48 cents up.
Come in and see us before you buy elsewhere.
LYON & COMPANY,
47-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Bellefonte Shoe Emporium.
$1.48
SPECIAL SALE
—) ON min
CHILDREN’S
GOOD ALL SOLID
SCHOOL - SHOES
—) AT (—
$1.48 a Pair
¥
2463, 6370, 3680, 2099 5061,
7850, 1203, 8345, 6925,
2070, 7620, 5829, 4307, 6747.
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE,
successor to Yeager & Davis.
Bush Arcade Building,
BELLEFONTE, PA.