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The Action of a Spinet.
The spinet instrument was an lm-
provement upon what was known as
the elavicherd, the tone of which, al-
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Building Lots For Sale.
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Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Bruges. 116 College Ave.
Spr eas | awh weal, was capable, unlike that wenty
Bellefonte, Pa., January 22, 1909. of the harpsichord or spinet. of In- Would You Like Your Money to Earn I Per (ent?
cm — | epease or decrease, reflecting the finest
Where Chess Is Most Popular. gradations of the touch of the player. |? y on . ompany .
Games may come and games may go, in this power of expression it was |4 .
but chess bids fair never to loss its| Without a rival until the plano was in- » Such a question is almost superfluous. All you naturally want to know ;
popularity Nowhere else is it so popu-. vented. The early history of the clavi- 4 is how and where you can get the twenty on your surplus capital.
lar as it is in the village of Strobeck, chord previous to the fifteenth century |» L .
near Halberstadt, in Prussian Saxony. | rests in profound obscurity, but it is : The Opportunity is Here OUR GREAT
Some time lu the eleventh century said that there is one bearing the date \F oC Seid Looted ar ;
Count Gunnelin, held a prisoner in a 1520 baving four octaves without the | 4 e have just purchasec 98 more Building Lots in connection with
stone tower in the village, amused D sharp and G sharp notes. The spinet ? the Hamilton farm. The fact that we own and control a large number : WHIT E <n A ! E
himself by carving a set of chessmen was the invention of the Venetian Spi- : of building lots mn this prosperous town places us in a position to offer ?| «“e
and teaching the game to his jailers. | netta. The action is unique. The in- |? the best proposition in real estate that has ever been offered in this state. {|
The tower, which still stands, is known | strument is similar to a small harpsi- ]
es the Chess tower. The jailers taught | chord. with one string to each uote. |b Lots on Easy Terms 4 IS NOW GOING ON.
the game to their friends, who were so | The strings are set in vibration by :
pleased with it that they devoted all points of quills elevated on wooden ‘ ;
their spare time to practice, This de- uprights known as jacks. and the de- , There is a great demand for homes and rooms at State College. < Se
light in chess continues to the present pression of ne keys Subse the pointy ' Houses rent from $25 to $1oo per month. Russell Sage said, ' Everybody knows what values they get when they
in Strobeck. Every person plays. The to pass upward, producing a tone sim- | # _,, : a . te at
village hotel is called the Chess fon, | flar to that of a harp. Springs are used . Your Rea. Estate Wil Make Your OLp AGE COMFORTABLE.” buy at this store.
tournaments are held every year, and | to draw the quills back into position. State College has the brightest future of any town in central Pa.
prizes are given to the best players. If The keyboard is arranged in a manner » ® 8 ; |
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a young man goes to an adjoining vil- | after the present modern piano. 3 Gall an ses our prapesitien, and Select for youself one ot the :
ie e———— -hoicest lots. : Best INvEsTMENT ON E N THE , . : :
lage for a wif who cannot play chess Moers House Lie 13 choicest lots HE DEST INVESTMENT O ARTH ISIN THE DARTH Sheeting by the yard or made up, Pillow Cases,
BE sme a hs pe, tote pin | Iknow At say you can't help living | i | Bolster Cases, Towels and toweling, Bed Spreads,
This subtle ordinance has spread a! in a fiat, but you could help it if you k Fiee Tranportation 10 fey bre Buying a Lot During ihe Nex! 30 Days. | Table Linens ond Napkins, everything at White
knowledse of the game among the | weren't too lazy to live in the suburbs. Ib i = | Sale Prices. e have no space to give prices on
young ladies of all the surrounding vil- | There is no real home life possible I} CALL OR WRITE everything only mention a few things.
lages. , without children—not one, but two or | ; . :
ges — ' three—enough to keep the young moth- | 4 LEATHERS BROTHERS, Yard wide Unbleached Muslin, regular price jc.
er too busy to make believe she be- 1
What is the right pronunciation of longs *« the smart set. And apart- ie
this word? It is usually pronounced . ments are either too small for that or |
by English people as if it were French, | the landlords won't tolerate children
with a soft, sibilant g. and in one syl- | at all. And then there is no neighbor: |
lable. Is there any justification for | hoed life. It's a good thing to have
Commercial "phone. State College, Pa Sale price 5 cents.
FAT AVY ATVAVAYT AY AV AV AY AY AVA ANALY MSV LSM i * . .
Yard wide Bleached Muslin, regular price 8c.
| Sale price 6! cents.
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Amerien’'s Apple King.
A PARISIAN HAIR CUT.
Yard wide Bleached Huck Toweling, regular
this?
Anglicized, like Waterloo?
the French pronunciation.
Flemish—Bru-ya.
will say, “It is Bru-ya."
lables,
say, with “subterfuges’?
be the I'rench.
In the first place, why is it not
And if not | to be careful of the way you live.
English, why French? Why not Flem- |
ish? In Bruges itself you do not hear
It is the | lot of strangers under one roof with
Ask at the station
if this is Bruges (a la Francaise), and | waiter shaft and an artificial palm.
they will hardly understand you. They | And I'm bound to say that I think it
In Longfel- | is responsible for a heathen race with
Jow's “Carillon,” and also in “The Bel- | no children.
fry of Bruges,” the word has two syl-
Is this intended to be read
with the Flemish pronunciation (Bru-| York World.
¥a) or in the English fashion (to rhyme, |
It cannot |
It may be said that | John L. Toole, the famous English
gossipy neighbors. You're more apt
I always think of apartment house
life as a sort of joke on socialism--a
interests, a dumb
just two mutual
Children mean sacrifice,
and it's sacrifice that make good men
and women.—-Amelia E. Barr in New
A Scoop.
comedian and practical joker, and Mr.
an American poet is no rule for Eng- |
It Is Expencive at Times, but Always
a Sociable Affair.
The Paris hairdresser cannot be per-
suaded to do anything more than pre-
tend to remove a littie hair. It almost
breaks his heart if you insist en a
serviceable cut.
The price charged is sometimes a
painful surprise to the unsuspecting
visitor. He has been warned to avold
those establishments where the tariff
is not displayed and so does not hesi- |
tate when he sees the announcement, |
“Hair Cutting, 1 Franc.”
When the operation is over, how- |
ever, he Is a little hurt at being asked |
for 3 francs. |
The statement that one man owns over
one thonsand six hundred notes devoted to
apple trees sounds amazing: that more than
five hondred thousand hushei< of apples
were sold by him from trees of his own
planting for an sguregate
hondeed avd five thousand dollars is like-
| wise amazing; yet, says a wiiter in Subaor-
hau Life, these figuies convey but a slight
idea of the operations of Judge Fred Well:
' house, of Topeka, Kansas, known to those
familiar with horticultural matters as ‘the
Apple King.”
When in she late reveuties, he was plant.
ing 437 acres to apple trees in Leavenworth
county, Kausas, many of his neighbors
looked upon him as well nigh demented,
Over four hundred acres in orchmd ! Is
was astonishing ! Is was destined to bea
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price 7c. Sale price 5 cents.
Children's White Dresses and Ladies’ Muslin
Underwear the largest line at prices that are lower
than any other store.
Children’s Short White Dresses from 23c. up.
The largest line of fine Shirt Waists in lace and
embroidery trimmed, all over tucked, the new
sleeves, high collars, regular values from 1.00 to
$5.00. Sale price from 75c. to $3.75.
Two thousand yards of fine Embroideries in
matched patterns, all different widths, regular
values from 10c. to $1.25. Sale price 5c. to 75¢.
Justice Hawkins, who was afterward
| flat failure! So eaid the croakers; hut |
Lord Brampton, were great friends.
lish pecple, but the word also occurs, ] If he knows enough French to un- | Wellhoase, undaunted and undiscouraged
believe, in one of Browning's poems (1
cannot remember which) with two syl-| They were at supper together one even-
lables. -T.ondon Notes and Queries.
Orchestral Oversights.
snare
The
drummer happened to
ing discussing the events of the day.
The judge incidentally mentioned that
he intended on the morrow giving the
man he had been trying fifteen years
because he deserved it.
derstand, he gathers that 1 franc is
for the hair cutting, 1 france for a “fric- |
tion” and 1 franc for “perfume.”
Frenchmen pay these charges with-
out complaining and seem to enjoy a
visit to the barber's. As they gener-
worked on unwindfal of the bautering and
rallying, avd the outcome, justified his
faith in Kansas and himself and forever
silenced those who donbted.
Perhaps in no way can he conveyed a
a clearer conception of the immensity of
8oo yards Lace, reg. values 1oc and 15¢. Now 5c.
In addition to our White Sale we yill sell all our
Winter Goods at cost. Ladies’, Misses and
Children's Coats, Ladies’ Coat Suits, Men's
Overcoats and Suits, Gloves, Underwear, Hosiery,
i a rn re As Toole was leaving he blandly in ally go to the sume shop—-and French. bv op Syoee he kit See an Caps, ete, Everything in Winter goods must be
t a 0ozen o no N . . . eh “ *” . . + ; a . 1
Di me to on. quired; men have their hair “cut” once a week |," yo of this record has grown aud sold now. We are showing new Spring Dress
—the assistant becomes their confiden-
Goods and must have room.
other i» had to hustle in a fashion that {| “Oh, would you mind wy calling at sold twenty six orops, amountiug to con-
tial friend. siderably more than hall a million bushels
nightly Impressed persons sitting near. | the newspaper offices and telling them tub
When he had finished the lively opera- about that fifteen years? It will be a His customers discuss with him thelr | The crop of 1890 approximately eighty
tion he was puffing and blowing and | tip for them — exclusive information, | 10V8 affairs, their aliments and lastly | thousand bushels, was the largest, and it
the perspiration was coming out in
A man just outside the or-
chestra rail leaned forward and, point-
streams.
ing to the score, remarked:
“That was good work, old man, but
you missed one place.”
“1 did!” responded the drummer in sy
you know—and will do me no end of
good with the press.”
“Good gracious! No, sir!’ exclaimed
the judge, who took the precaution of
accompanying Toole to his hotel and
seeing him safely to bed.
their business.
He is also supposed to be a great au-
thority on horse racing, but he is too
prudent to act on his own tips and!
generally manages to save enough
money to start in business for himself.
~TLondon Mail.
sold for more than fifty thousand dollars,
This was perhaps the most valuable crop
of apples ever grown by any one man in
the Middle West, and the total paid for is
ageregated more than the earnings of the
average citizen daring his entire lifetime.
The combined yield of the two largest
crops, those of 1890 and 1801, wae 142,868
LYON & COMPANY,
47-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Bellefonie Shoe Emporium.
,—,—,——— bushels. The smallest yield was 488 bush-
surprise. “Why, 1 thought 1 played Woman's Spur. ANATOMY els in 1899. tte 6
everything that came my way.” “‘The scent was excellent that frosty . All these apples, if packed in barrels and
“No.” the other resumed, “you didn’t | morning. She walked across the field, loaded on the ordinary railroad freight-car,
do everything, and I saw the leader holding her riding skirt free of her A More or Less Helpful Lesson For | geeraging twenty thousand pounds to the
glance at you. Right there, in the mid- patent leather boots and sliver spurs.’ ” Beginners. load, would fill about ove thousand two
hundred and fifty cars, or make more than
sixty-two trainloads, of twenty car of the
train.
In picking. the men averaged forty bush-
“Spurs?” shouted the editor.
ails you, man?”
“Spurs?” the puzzled author repeat-
ed. “Don’t they wear spurs nowadays?
“What Proceeding in a southerly direction
from the torso, we have the hips, use-
ful for padding, and the legs. The
legs hold up the body and are some-
dle of that measure, is a place where
ft says you should have gone down
cellar and shaken the furnace, and you
didn’t pay any attention to it."—Prov-
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idence Journal.
Suiting His Theory.
“When I hear of a new theory,” sald
a scientist, “I am reminded of the two
At a certain summer re-
sort one brilliant afternoon the young-
er geologist from his bedroom window
saw the older man rolling a great rock
geologists,
down the side of a mountain.
“He watched the work for nearly
three hours. The old geologist, thin
and little and white whiskered, had a
hard time of it to guide that rock al-
But he per-
severed. He got the rock down where
he wanted it just as the dinner bell
most as big as himself.
rang.
“The younger man said to him won-
deringly at dinner:
“What were you doing with that
rock this afternoon, professor?
“ “Why, the professor answered, ‘the
fact is the thing was 600 feet too high
to suit my theory.”
Willing to End the Company.
A Chicago man who once permitted
himself to be persuaded to back a the-
atrical company was seated in his of-
fice
one day when he received a tele- sits and takes notes of what happens.”
gram from the manager of the show. —Brooklyn Life.
The troupe was somewhere in Mis- ASH
souri, and the telegram read thus: Adam's Apple.
“Train this morning and all| The projection in the front of the
. answer sent back by the Chicago
man was as follows:
“Try another wreck and have the
company ride In the baggage car."—
Gently Broken.
“You were a long time in the far cor-
ner of the conservatory last evening,”
suggested the mother. “What was go-
on?"
Bg ou remember the occasion wn
v you becs e engaged to papa?
I know they used to.”
“Women never wear spurs unless
they ride astride. They wear one spur
—one only, What geod would a second
be, except to tear the clothes?”
“1 see.” sald the other. “A natural
error, wasn't it?”
“Only a natural error for an igno-
ramus. But the usual writer of sport-
ing stories is an ignoramus. I rarely
read a sporting story but I come across
some error quite as blatant as this of
yours." —New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Forced Draft Realism.
“How is it that Scribbler's novels
thrill with such vital, gripping, realis-
tic portrayal of human passions?” ask-
ed Danks.
“Well,” said Hanks, “when he gets
ready to write a novel he orders a gen-
eral house cleaning, sends for the
plumber to fix the gas jets and for the
tinner to fix the stovepipes, bids his
little daughter to stay at home to
practice five finger exercises, hires a
street piano to play German, Irish and
Italian national airs in front of the
house and tells his wife that her fam-
ily is not as good as his own. Then he
throat in men, denoting the position
of the thyroid cartilage, is styled
“Adam's apple.” It develops rapidly
usually when the voice “breaks,” be-
ing comparatively small in both chil-
dren and women. The name arose
from the tradition that when Adam
attempted to swallow the apple in
it stuck in his throat, giving
rise to the swelling since seen in all
his adult male descendants.
A Great Man.
“Father,” sald little Rollo, “what is
a great man?”
“A great man, my son, is one who
manages to gather about him a whole
lot of assistants who will take the
blame for his mistakes while he gets
the credit for their good ideas!”
Not Wholly Personal.
A.—You have used the word “donkey™
several times in the last ten minutes.
Am I to understand that you mean
| anything of a personal nature? B.—
Certainly not. There are lots of don-
keys In the world besides you.
To learn obeying Is the fundamental
| art of governing.—Carlyle.
times used in walking, but when rid-
ing in automobiles they take up valu-
able space which otherwise might be
employed to better advantage.
Attached to the legs are the feet.
Some varieties of feet are cold. Some
people are born with cold feet, others
acquire cold feet, and still others have
cold feet thrust upon them.
The surface of the body is covered
with cuticle, which either hangs in
graceful loops or is stretched tightly
from bone to bone.
On the face it is known as complex-
fon and is used extensively for com-
mercial purposes by dermatologists,
painters and decorators.
Between the cuticle and the bones
are the muscles, which hold the bones
together and prevent them from fall-
ing out and littering up the sidewalk
as we walk along.
Packed neatly and yet compactly in-
side the body are the heart, the liver
and the lungs; also the gall, which in
Americans is abnormally large.
These organs are used occasionally
by the people who own them, but
their real purpose is to furnish sur-
geons a living.—Thomas L. Masson in
Lippincott’s.
A Free Handed Prince.
The following is told of the famous
Prince of Conde. He left his son.
aged nine years, 50 louis d'or to spend
while he himself was absent in Paris.
On his return the boy came to him
triumphantly, saying:
“Papa, here is all the money safe.
I have never touched it once.”
The prince, without making any re-
ply, took his son to the window and
quietly emptied all the ey out of
the purse imto the Then he
said:
“If you have neither virtue enough
to give away your money nor spirit
enough to spend it, always do this for
the future, that the poor may have a
chance of it.”
The Duchess’ Philosophy.
The old Duchess of Cleveland invit-
ed a relative to her husband's funeral
and told him to bring his gun, add-
ing, “We are old, we must die, but
the pheasants must be shot."—Sir Al-
gernon West's Reminiscences.
No Resemblance.
“Woman and cats.” said the youth-
ful boarder, “are alike.”
“Wrong, young man,” said the cheer-
ful idiot. “A woman can’t run up a
telegraph pole, and a cat can’t run up
a millinery bill.”
els each per dav—and packers and pickers
were paid for 20,833 days’ work, at the
rate of $1.50 per day of ten honrs. The
pickers worked in gaogs of from ten to
fifteen men.
For harvesting, $31.250 was paid to
pickers and packers ; $6,425 for hauling
from the fields to the packing honse, and
$11,565 for bauling to the railroad and
loading on ears. The barrels cost $17.100
and about $1,500 was spent for miscellane-
ous items, such as hoxes, extra hoops, ete.
The total outlay for gathering the crops
and placing them on the market was $67.-
480. You see capital is required for a job
like this ove.
The gross sales amonnted to $205,903,
this less the $67,840 expenses, leaves a net
return of $138,063. Bat this amount
doesn't represent all the profits; it doesn’s
i include the value of the corn, which was
grown hetween the tree rows from the time
of setting out the orcharde until they be-
gan to bear. The corn was grown by ten-
ants, and the landlord received one-third
of it for rent. Of the 161,000 bushels of
corn grown, he received 53,600 bushels,
which sold for an average of 30 cents per
bushel, netting about $14,750, and paying
all expenses of planting and growivg the
orchards to the time of their hearing. Add.
ed to that from the apples this income from
the corn brings the total net profit up to
$152,812. And then, too, ite planter still
owns this orchard has every
reason to hope for many more bumper
crops.
Lord Kelvin's Romance.
There was an element of romance in the
late Lord Kelvin’s second marriage. It
-by to the lad
gor. on leaving
swilingly said: *‘Do yon think you under-
stand system now?"
“0, yes,” replied his lady friend, “I am
eure I understand.”
“Then,” said the scientist, ‘‘watch the
vessel as it disappears from view and I will
flash you a message.”
The message was: “Will you be my
wife?”’ The lady’s reply the world knows.
— Westminster Gazette.
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Gernan Picture Post Card Industry.
Consul-Geuneral T. St. John Gaffoey, of
Dresden, states that the exportation of
German picture cards has recently
diminished erably. The! de-
mand is however, still great, amounting to
about 500,000,000 since the beginning of
the year to July 1. Compared with the
previous year, this shows a dimination of
150,000,000. The United States is said to
be Germany's best customer, followed by
England, Asia and Australia are also good
patrone of this form of art industry.
A Grand Success
0 oO
Hundreds of people took ad-
vantage of the
LOW PRICED SALE
—_— OF —
SHOES
at Yeager’s Friday and Sat-
urday of last week. They
were all pleased at the low
prices on new shoes. You
Sale
continues for 30 days.
will be if you come.
YEAGER’'S SHOE STORE.
successor to Yeager & Davis.
Bush Arcade Building, = BELLEFONTE,
PA.