A ———— Quenching a Blaze In a Hurry on Board a War Vessel. PRANK OF A TRICKY MASCOT. There Were Lively Times on Deck When the Big Monkey Got Himself Mixed Up With Hot Pitch and Gun Cotton and Took a Trip Aloft. We were making passage from Nor- folk. Va. to Lisbon, Portugal, in the United States steamship Alliance. It was shortly after 4 o'clock. I had just gone to my room for a pipeful of to- bacco when the sailmaker came to my door with a scared face. “Got any wa- ter in your room, Mr. Du Bois?" he said. “Yes; here's a paiiful.” “For God's sake give it to me quick! The e=ail room's afire, but don't say anything! [I'll have it out in a min- ute!” I handed him the pail of water, but was not going to take any chances of a fire on a man-of-war with fifteen tons of powder not six feet away, so I ran to the ship's bell and rang the fire alarm as furiously as I could. In less time than it takes you to read this ; hand grenades were being thrown and water was pouring into the now sti- fling mass of burning canvas. Men jumped In among the great bundles of furled sails and passed them out, and when one could not endure the smoke any longer another took his place. At last the danger was over, and I began to look around and take stock of the affair, T had often wondered what I would do in case of a fire on the ship. 1 would save my watch, A watch is never used at sea, so it hung from a hook over my desk. I would be sure to take along my best girl's picture, and there were a few other little be- longings which must not be parted with. Well, when the thing was over, what had [| gathered together? Not my watch, not my best girl's picture, not anything that I had thought I would. but I had filled my pockets with extract of beef and nothing else. Dumb instinct, not a thought of any- thing but of something good to eat in dire extremity. How did the fire start? The sail- maker, whese duty it is to keep the sails in good order, is privileged to go to the sail room at any time, but he is supposed to always carry a peculiar lantern, consisting of a common candle set In a globe of horn. sufficiently opaque to give enough light for his needs there. The candle does away with any danger from oll that might be spilled and catch fire, and the globe, being of horn instead of glass, pre- cludes a possibility of breakage. This time the sailmaker, desiring a little more light, had taken out the candle. It had dropped from his fingers away down into the bight of a fumed sail, and the cloth had caught fire. There was a terrible mess of burned and smoky salls in there, and they were all hauled up on deck and spread out in the sun to dry and to find out just what the damage was. In the bottom ‘of the room on the floor one of the men found the stump of candle and put It In his pocket. The sailmaker was a favorite on board, and the offi- cers never found out how the fire started. They thought they knew. The captain “broke” the sailmaker— that is, reduced him to the decks. But he couldn't prove anything. So after -a week orso he restored him to his old rank. We came near having another fire ‘once, and, while it might have been ‘very serious, it was really funny. + We had several hundred pounds of gun cotton on board, and. fearing that it might bave gathered dampness, the gunner's gang got up the cases from the magazine, pulled it all out and spread it on the warm decks far aft in the sun te dry. Away forward the boatswain’s mate and his gang were busy with tar pots and ropes putting some of thelr stuff in order. We had on board a mascot in the shape of a monkey, one of the largest I have ever seen. He would stand quite three feet high, and he was the very Old Nick for mischief. He was a great nuisance, that monkey, and must always be doing what he saw any of the men doing. Well, Mr. Monkey saw the men with the warm tar, and nothing would do but he must have a hand in the job literally, so hie ran forward and dipped his hands into the pot and in a minute was all besmeared with the sticky stuff; then he bolted aft as fast as he could scamper and rolled in the gun cotton, got himself well covered with it and ran aloft into the rigging. Sail ors have a saying, “The devil to pay and no pitch hot,” but the pitch was hot this time, and the condition was actually appalling. Some of the men ran after him, but it was impossible to catch him. He was too shrewd for that. The gunner's gang gathered up that gun cotton as men never did so fast in their lives before and put ft back into the cans, for had that fool monkey dropped from aloft into it he would have blown the ship to king- dom come. They got it out of the way without disaster, but for several hours that creature sat up there picking gun cotton from himself and throwing it overboard. As 1 sald, the episode would have been comicai had it not been fraught with so much danger. It might have been “another sea mys. tery.” but it was not.—Stanley Du Bois in Los Angeles Times. He bears misery best who hides it most. —Shakespeare. Book learning, strictly speaking—that is, learning solely from books—leads one into many a hole. In “The Balkan Trall” Frederick Moore tells the “tory of an Italian official of the Ottoman bank who had taught himself English and was enraptured at the chance to practice it on English people. It was with much pride that he ad- dressed us at supper, but we did not recognize the language he spoke and expressed In French our unfortunate ignorance of foreign tongues. “That is your own tongue,” said the Italian, but even of this statement we understood not a word, He drew a pencil from his pocket and on the back of a letter wrote: “I am speaking English.” We were astounded. “Perhaps | do not pronounce cor- rectly,” he wrote next. “I have learned the noble language from books.” The hilarious Englishman in our party gave the unhappy Italian his first real lesson at once. He took the |, pencil and wrote: “Always pronounce English as it is not spelt. Spell as it is not pro-| nounced.” i The Bite of a Rattler. ! The Cherokee Indians’ cure for the bite of a rattlesnake is at once so com- mon sense and scientific as to merit a widespread acceptance. Its common sense lies in the fact that the victim has or ought to have the necessary implement always at hand, there need not be an instant’s delay, and that it is the scientific plan goes without saying because it carries away the poison at once. The Indian at once, when bit- ten, drawing his knife, pinched up the part bitten and cut it out, then, seek- ing the nearest stream, not often very far away, plunged the leg in the run- ning water and kept it there until al! bleeding had ceased and, as my in- formant, an old man, told me, seldom suffered any ill effects, Usually, as we know, no physician can be reached or reliable remedy had until the case is too far gone for any effort to avall, but with a knife and, it | not a running stream, water enough to keep the wound well washed and the blood flowing I believe there would be fewer deaths following rattlesnake bites.—Forest and Stream. How to Settle Bills. There is a young Harlem matron whose mental equilibrium is upset the first of each month by the prospect of letting her husband see the size of the bills that come in for food, drink and for her own personal adornment. Her four-year-old daughter offered her a valuable suggestion the other day as to the simplest means of settling bills. The small child, seeing her mother examining with a clouded brow a bit of paper, inquired: : “Is it a nice letter, mamma?" “No; it's a nasty big bill, dearie.” The child's bright eyes closed as it she were searching her innermost soul for some word of comfort. Suddenly she flashed a glad look at her mother, and her voice had all the brilliancy of one voicing an inspiration: “Mamma, jes’ tear it up. Then you don't have to pay it." —New York Press. The Retort Aqueous. Even in the midst of horror there is occasionally a rift of humor. It is said that at the time of the Johnstown flood a grocer to whom one of the citi- zens owed for an overlong time a good sized bill for provisions while floating along on the top of the waters in a raft made of two window blinds and a skylight caught sight of his delinquent debtor whirling around in one of the pools of the eddying current clinging to a large hogshead. “Ah, there you are!” cried the grocer, businesslike to the last. “Been look- ing for you for several days. When are you going to pay that bill?” “Can't say just now, Sands, old man,” returned the unhappy debtor. “I'm having all I can do to keep my head above water these times.”—Har- per's Weekly. An Anecdote of Renan. Renan while traveling alighted at Naples. One morning a servant of the hotel came to him and said that as she had heard the preacher at the cathe- dral make use of his name many times she would be thankful if he would chicose for her a number in the lotiery about to be drawn. “If you are a saint,” said she, “the number is sure to be a good one; if you are a devil, i. will be still better.” Renan smiled and chose a number, but he never knew 1* the servant was lucky. Tangible Asset. “I believe I'll promote a transporta- tion company." “Land or water?” “The latter, 1 think. For the former ‘I'd need rails and right of way, but in a water proposition I'll have an ocean to start with."—Exchange. For Future Reference. “That lawyer is very tricky,” said Mr, Cumrox. “I wouldn't think of meeting him socially.” “Neither would I,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax, “but you might give me lis office address.”—Washington Star. A Correction. “Your hair wants cutting badly, sir,” said a barber insinuatingly to a cus. tomer. “No, it doesn’t,” replied the man in the chair. “It wants cutting nicely. You cut it badly last time.” Almost Personal. Celestine — And has Mr. Pryor's church such a small congregation? Hilda-—-Yes, indeed Every time he says “dearly beloved” you feel as if you had received a proposal.—Bohe mian, Would Building Lots For Sale. NETL. Va You Like Your Money to Earn Twenty Per Cent? Such a question is almost superfluous. 1s how and where you can get the twenty on your surplus capital. The Opportunity is Here We have just purchased 98 more Building Lots in connection with the Hamilton farm. The fact that we own and control a large number of building lots in this prosperous town places us in a position to offer the best proposition in real estate that has ever been offered in this state. Lots on Easy Terms All you naturally want to know choicest lots. There is a great demand for homes and rooms at State College. Houses rent from $25 to $roo per month. “Your Real Estate Win. Make Your Orb AGE COMFORTABLE.” Russell Sage said, State College has the brightest future of any town in central Pa. Call and see our proposition, and select for yourself one of the Tue Best INVESTMENT ON EARTH 1S IN THE EARTH. Free Tranportation fo finy One Buying 2 Lot During (he Next 30 Bays. CALL OR WRITE : 4 ’ 4 ; » 4 > 4 » 1 b 1 » 4 » 4 » 4 $ 116 College Ave. LEATHERS BROTHERS, Commercial "phone. TAVAVAY AV AV AT AVAV AY AY AV AVAV AVEC LSC DSS State College, Pa ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR. Then the Tide Turned, and One Great Misfortune Followed Another Till He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu- rope by the Treaty of Berlin. The “Terrible Turk,” who may be taken as typifying the empire of the sultans, holds one record at least which he is not likely to be deprived of. He has won and ost more terri- tory thao any other nation. There was a time when the sultan was the bugbear of the world. Even little children in Engiand shook in their shoes when they heard his name mentioned, and those people who lived anywhere near him dared not call their lives their own, But at last the tide turned. The Turk began to lose, and one great mis- fortune followed another. Spain was the first big bit of the Turkish empire to break free. The Moors, who were subject and paid tribute to the sultan, were driven from | province after province until at length | they were cooped up in the solitary | kingdom of Granada. | The last Moorish king to reign in | Spain was Boabdil-el-Chaco, or Boab- | dil the Unlucky. In 1482 Ferdinand | and Isabella, the king and queen of Aragon and Castile, declared war on him, and in 1492 he had to surrender everything. Hungary, which now forms half of the dual monarchy of the Emperor Francis Joseph, was a province of the sultan for 150 years. Then it was torn from him by the sword. After this came the turn of the czars. The Russians, whom he once despised, have been the Turk's worst enemies. They have either robbed him themselves or encouraged others to rob him. Peter the Great set the example, but was not, on the whole, very successful in his wars against the Moslems. At one time the Turks could have cap- tured and massacred Peter and his ar- my, but were frustrated by the slave girl, Catherine, whom Peter had mar- ried. Catherine the Great tore the Crimea from the unhappy Turk, together with thousands of square miles of territory along the shores of the Caspian. In 1821 the Greeks, who had been slaves of the sultans for many centus ries, rose in rebellion and drove the Turks out of the country. But then the Greek leaders began to quarrel among themselves, and civil war fol- lowed. The Turk took the opportunity to seize the country once more. But the massacres and other horrors which followed aroused Europe. In 1827 the Turkish fleet was destroyed at Navarino. The combined fleets of Britain, France and Russia took part in the operation. In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as | a free and independent kingdom, with a king of its own. For nearly a century Egypt, which the Turk conquered in 641, has been part of the sultan’s empire in little more than name, and since 1882, when the English occupied Pharaoh's coun- try after Arabi Pasha’s rebellion, the Turk has had practically nothing to do with Egypt. The Moorish corsairs who had their lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac- knowledged the sultan as thelr suze- rain, but were defiantly independent as regarded all the rest of the world. Their swift sailing dhows preyed on the commerce of all Europe, and from start to finish they seized many thou- sands of white captives, many of whom they ransomed, while others they doomed to slavery. When asked to keep his piratical subjects in order the sultan declared himself helpless to do anything. The freebooters went on doing as they liked for a long time. Then France became weary of patience and forcibly took possession of the city in 1830. | Since then she has annexed 307.980 square miles of Algerian territory once subject to the sultan. Then came the Turk's worst time. Russia made war on him, and the Bal- | kan states, which had been held as! provinces by Turkey for hundreds of | years, revolted, flew to arms and did | everything they could on the side of ; Pusgia. Had the czar been left to him. a self the Turkish empire would have been practically destroyed. The other great powers, however, were afraid to see Russia too powerful. They insist ed on summoning the congress of Ber- lin. By the terms of the treaty of Berlin the Turk was almost swept ont of Eu- rope. Bosnia and Herzegovina were handed over to Austria to keep In or- der. Roumania, Servia and Montene- gro were declared absolutely Independ- ent of him. Bulgaria was created into a principality. nominally under the sultan’s suzerainty, but in reality free. And then Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. —Pearsen’s Weekly. The True Bohemian. “A true bohemian is an man who hor- rows a doliar and then invites you to lunch with it.” “Wrong again. A true bohemian is a man who invites himself to lunch with you and then borrows a dollar.” —Kansas City Star. I think there Is success In nll honest endeavor and that there is some vie tory gained iv every gallant fraggle that ie made “harles Diane How many pecp’e lve on the reputn tion of the reputation they might have made.—Holmes, The Subaltern’s Retort. When Sir ian Hamilton was in South Africa acting as chief of staff to Lord Kitchener he had occasion to visit rath- er a large depot of which a young of- ficer was in command. Going through certain papers, General Hamilton found that these were not quite in order and at last said rather wearily to the of- ficer: “You know this sort of thing will not do at all. What do you sup- pose your brains were given you for?” “I am sure I do not know, general,” was the cheerful reply. “Since I came here I have worked sixteen hours a day and more. I have acted as mule teamster, porter, van guard, supply clerk, station master, orderly, room clerk, typist and a dozen other things. I think if I had not bee. endowed with brains I might have managed to take on two or three more jobs as well, but as it is I must admit I am some- what handicapped.” Sir Ian Hamilton was forced to laugh, and shortly after the young officer found himself attached to the Senate personal staff.—London Tit. Psychic Phenomena. ‘ The Chinese believe that the p'o is “equivalent to the supraliminal self, the visible personality interpenetrating and indissolubly attached to the body, the hun being the subliminal or invisi- ble self, also interpenetrating the body, but not indissolubly attached to it.” For instance, “the hun of a girl elop- ed with a lover, leaving the physical body informed by the p‘c only, and there she lay in bed, a semiconscious invalid, for several years, until the re turn of a runaway pair, who had been duly married and were bringing home a couple of children. While the aston- ished parents were wondering what to make of it all, the girl in the bed got up and went out to meet herself. The two fell into each other's arms, and there and then, in the presence of spec- tators, they coalesced and became one ~—one ordinary woman, dressed, how- ever, in two complete suits of clothes.” ~Theosophical Review, Weighing Touch, A remarkable instrument is that used for the purpose of measuring the sense of touch. This device consists of a series of little disks, each three milli meters in diameter, suspended by fine, delicate thread from wooden handles, the last being stuck into holes round a block. The lightest disk is taken out and brought into contact with the skin of the subject, he having his eyes closed. If nothing is felt a heavier disk is employed, and so on until the pressure becomes noticeable. The disks weigh from one to twenty milli grams, and with their aid it has been proved that the sense of touch in the average person is conveyed by two mil ligrams on the forehead, temple and back of the forearm, five for the nose and the chin and fifteen for the inner surface of the fingers.—New York Trib une. Lyon & Ce. Lyon &. Company. WHITE :-: SALE Our White Sale is stronger than ever Every day there are New Goods added to keep up the large assortment. We are working to make this the largest and the best values at the lowest prices. Tailored Suits and Coats. 13 Handsome Tailored Suits—all of this season's style, elegantly lined and well finished. New Style Coats and Skirts, colors Blue, Black, Green and Brown—ail sizes in the assort- ment. Must be sold regardless of cost. 30 Coats in Misses and Childrens—All col- ors and sizes. Must be sold now. Our space is needed for Spring Stuff. We are taking inventory and are having a general house cleaning in all departments. Everything in small lots and short ends go on the Remnant Counter at less than cost. Spring Dress Goods. We are having the newest styles in Spring dress goods in silk, wool, and washable fabrics. If you want to buy the best goods for the least money come in and see our stock and get our prices. LYON & COMPANY, 47-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa. Bellefonte Shoe Emporium. A Grand Success oO 0 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. Rush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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