Bellefonte, Pa., July30, 1909. “Why are you still wearing those old clothes, Mat?’ he asked. “Sure, yer honor, they're the best I have.” replied Mat. “But did you not get the suit I left for you the other day?” asked the gen. tleman “Indeed, an’ 1 did, thank yer honor kindly.” replied Mat; “but, sure, I had to lave them at home to be mended.” — London Tatler. When Baseball Was an Infant Industry. It was a crude game, but merry. In theory the pitcher was there only to give the boys a chance to “soak the ball” “First bound” was still out. The unfortunate catcher, handling a heavy. lively ball without mask, glove or pro- tector. stood up near the bat when men were on bases If he had the skill and courage. The early guides recom- mended him to do so when he could. Had not the pitcher been restricted to an artificial throw scarce a catcher would have lived to tell the tale. Many catchers took everything “on first bounce” and managed at that to prevent much base stealing. Base run- | ning also was In its infancy. “Smith.” says the Spirit of the Times, “caught a remarkable game, having but five passed balls scored against him.” Here and there we get a glimpse which shows how crude it all was, what a matter of hit and miss natural force. In the fifties Dicky Pearce shone with- out a peer as an infielder. He used to stop grounders with his hand and foot: ~Will Irwin in Collier's. She Did So. “Always,” said papa as he drank his coffee and enjoyed his morning beefsteak—*"always, children, change the subject when anything unpleasant has been said. It is both wise and polite.” That evening on his return from business he found several of his flower beds despoiled and the tiny imprint of slippered feet silently bearing witness to the small thief. “Mabel,” he sald to her, “did you pick my flowers?” “Papa.” sald Mabel, “did you see a monkey in the city today? We had a”— “Never mind that. Did you pick my flowers, Mabel?” “Papa, what did grandma send me?” “Mabel, what do you mean? Did you pick my flowers? Answer me, yes or no.” “Yes, papa, 1 did, but I thought 1 would change the subject.”—London Tit-Bits. Moroccan Red Tape. Official correspondence in Morocco 1s couched in a very flowery and flam- boyant style. It is interspersed with a variety of meaningless adulatory phrases that tend to confound the real meaning of the epistle, For example, an order to the minister of finance to contract a loan begins thus: “In our present letter (God increase his power and make the glorious sun and his moon glitter in the firmament of his felicity) we have authorized our incorruptible servant (here follows name) to contract in the name and on the behoof of the treasury (heaven fill it) a loan of —,” etc. Considering that the “incorruptible servant” is filching as much as he pos- sible can from the treasury it is cer tainly necessary to pray that “heaven fill it."—London Graphic. treated Napoleon IIL. to confer upon Rosa Bonheur the cross of the Legion of Honor. He had refused because he did not wish to found a precedent for get hot. Mean Comment. Bila—Eer face speaks for itself and it is pretty plain talk. A New City a Thousand Years Old. Budapest, whose front is circled with lights ‘like a crown, whose hills rise dark and feathery above the river, whose parliament bul!dings run along the bank and are second to nome but Westminster—Budapest, bright, flash- ing, gay, beautiful, modern and rich, ardent and executive, close bulit and amalgamative, blender of peoples—is the product of only a few decades, and yet at its last exposition it celebrated its thousandth birthday. Pest, to the right of the river—for the cities are twin and divided by the Danube—Pest dates back to 1200, and Buda was the Ofen of the Romans. Buda climbs up the opposite hill, today magnificently pew. but sown round with green crumbling walls that mark the passing of the original founders whose painted galleys came up the Danube from the Black sea. The twentieth century civi- lization, sharply new and powerful, must for a moment be brushed aside and the Buda of mediaeval times put in its stead.—Marie Van Vorst in Har per's Magazine. Gathering Cloves. Cloves are now cultivated In many of the tropical regions of the earth. A clove tree begins to bear at the age of ten years and continues until it reach- es the age of seventy-five years. There are two crops a year, one in June and one in December. The tree is an ever- green and grows from forty to fifty feet high, with large oblong leaves and crimson flowers at the end of small branches in clusters of from ten to twenty. The tree belongs to the same botanical order as the guava. The cloves, which are the undeveloped buds. are at first white, then light green and at the time of gathering bright red. Pleces of white cloth are spread under the trees at harvesting time, and the branches are beaten gen- tly with bamboo sticks until the cloves drop. They are dried in the sun, being ! tossed about dally until they attain { the rich dark color which proclaims them ready for shipment. Cards and Their History. Cards are square shaped pleces of pasteboard printed with various de- vices and employed as a business me- dium by money changers. They are usually made up in packs of fifty-two, | one for each week of the year. A good | many people play cards for pleasure, | In which case their opponents are sald | to be buying experience. In most card | games the rule is that the cards may | be cut, but not otherwise marked. This | rule is not strictly observed In games {in which only three cards are used. Indeed, the marking of cards has at- | tained a high degree of perfection | gince the intreduction of numerous | card index systems. Fashions change | in card games as In everything else. | 01d mald, for instance, is nowadays seldom played in the best clubs. Play- | ing cards should not be confused with | score cards, which are rather larger, | or with visiting cards, which are small er.—Fry's Magazine. A Rhineland Legend. There is a Rhineland legend of three German robbers who, having acquired by various atrocities what amounted to a very valuable booty, agreed to di- vide the spoil and to retire from so dangerous a vocation. When the day appointed for this purpose arrived one of them was dispatched to a neighbor- ing town to purchase provisions for thelr last carousal. The other two secretly agreed to murder him on his return that they might divide his share between them. They did so. But the murdered man was a closer cal- culator even than his assassins, for he had previously poisoned a part of the provisions, that he might appropriate to himself the whole of the spoil. This precious triumvirate were found dead together. Salt Codfish Omelet. Soak a plece of salt codfish about six § } : ; : ii not | moment imagzine be would dare take | ruch a liberty. Herself-Nor did L | ma In fac [ bet him a pair of gloves forget now what; let longing to one of two sisters who were | traveling together. It could nowhere be found. But one night one of the sisters dreamed that she saw the key in the pocket of her traveling bag. She told this dream on waking to the other. “And have you looked in the pocket?’ | the sister asked. “No, I have not,” | said she, “for the very good reason that there is no pocket in my travel | ing bag.” “Well” sald the other, “there is a pocket in mine. I will just have a look there on the chance.” And | there the key was found. The infer- ence is that the dreamer had seen | with the eye of sense, though not with | the eye of observation, the key put | into the pocket. Even when the key was so found she had no recollection of seeing it placed there, but the brain bad unconsciously recorded the sensa- tion. In course of sleep it had stum- bled on that record, and by good luck the sleeper on awaking chanced to re- member the mental operation that had taken place during sleep. It is a sin- gular and almost alarming reflection that our brains are stored with count: less such records of which we know nothing nor ever shall know unless the association of ideas or some peculiar mental state brings them to our no- tice.— Westminster Gazette, 1 ¥ Pp 1656 invented fect steam engine and had it publicly exhibited the same year at Vauxhall in successful operation, Thirty-four years later, in 1690, Dennis Papin add ed the piston to the marquis’ discovery. In 1698 Captain Savary devised and built a steam engine different in many details from those made by Worcester and Papin, and in 1705 Newcomb, Caw- ley and Savary constructed their cele- | complete in every detail. The above array of historical facts notwithstand- ing. James Watt, who was not born until sixty years after these great men had given the steam engine to the world, enjoys the distinction of being the veritable inventor, originator and author of the most useful contrivance and worked in the early part of the nineteenth century, is given the credit of being the man who demonstrated that steam could be applied to naviga- tion—this, too, in face of the well knewn historical fact that De Gary propelled a vessel by steam in the har- bor of Barcelona in 1543.—8t. James Gazette. Genius and Misfortune. Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was a slave; Boetius dled in jail; Paul Borghese had four, teen trades and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often in distress for 5 shillings; Bentivoglio was refused admission Into a hospital he himself bad erected: Cervantes dled of hunger, and Vagelas left his bedy to the physi cians to pay his debts so far as the money would go; Sir Walter Raleigh dled on the scaffold; Spenser, the charming, died in want; the death of Collins was through neglect, first caus. ing mental derangement. Milton sold his copy of “Paradise Lost” for $70 at, three payments and finished his life in obscurity; Dryden lived in poverty and distress; Otway died In the street; Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with the bailiffs; Goldsmith's “Vicar of Wakefield” was sold for a trifle to save him from the grip of the law, Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for a debt of $40; Butler lived a life of penury and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself. Queer Pronunciations. There are many names of places in England that puzzle the stranger. Happisburgh, in Norfolk, for instance, is pronounced Hazeboro, Abergavenny simply drops a syllable and becomes Abervenny, and it is alleged that St. Neots sounds more like Snoots than anything else. Cirencester seems to vary from Sister to Sizeter. In Suf- folk Waldriogfield is “Wunnerful” and Chelmondiston “Chimston,” while in the adjoining county of Norfolk Hun-' stanton is “Hunston,” and in the west country Badgeworthy is “Badgery” and Cornwood “Kernood.” Hunting- donshire claims the purest English, but they call Papworth “Parpor.” And not far away is another village of beauty. The motorist turned upon a rough road and asked the intelligent laborer where it would take him. “That road,” said the honest country- man, wiping his brow, “will take you to 'Ell, sir.” The courageous motor- ist went on and found Elsworth, which is pronounced “Elser.” — Manchester Guardian, Arms and the Woman. “Did anybody ever see a one armed woman? asked a gray headed man as he surveyed the afternoon parade. “I never did. Almost every day I meet one armed men, but 1 have yet to en- counter a woman with that pitifully. empty sleeve. Are there no women who have suffered that mutilation? If not, why not? And, if so, where are they ? “Yesterday I heard it argued that there was no cause for a woman to lose an arm; that women do not go to. the wars and are not engaged in occu- pations that are likely to carry away Don'ts. Don’t attempt to punish all your ene- mies at once. You can’t do a large business with a small capital. Don't say “I told you so.” Two to one you pever said a word about it. Don't worry about another man's business. A little selfishness is sometimes com- mendable. Don’t imagine that you can correct all the evils in the world. A grain of sand is not prominent in a desert. Don't mourn over fancied grievances. Bide your time, and real sorrow will come, Don't throw dust a part of their body. But that rea- soning is mot sound. Many women work in mills and factories, and they are as liable to accidents in the streets and public conveyances as men. Fre- quently ther figure in these accidents; but, although men in the same situa- tion would lose an arm, women never do. “What is the cause of their immuni- ty 7'—New York Globe. Keeping Time In Holland. “Railroad time, as we generally un- derstand the phrase in the United States, Is a little ahead of the ‘town’ time, but in The Hague, the quaint old capital of Holland, all private and un- official clocks and watches are kept twenty minates fast,” said a traveler. “When it is noon in the railway sta- tion, postofiice and other government buildings of The Hague the timepleces in the shops and the watches of the sturdy burghers show 12:20 p. m. Just what reasor. there is for this I don’t know, although I asked enlightenment in many quarters. It seems a custom that has been handed down for gener- ations, and the Dutch are too conserv- ative to change the ways of their pro- genitors without some mighty induce- ment.”"—Baltimore American. Attraction. Fruits fall to the earth because the earth attracts them. Bubbles in a cup of tea stanC around the sides of the cup because the cup attracts them. The little oubbles gather about the in your teacher's eyes. It will only in- jure the pupil. Don't worry about the ice crop. Keep cool and you will have enough. Don't borrow a coach to please your wife. Better make her a little sulky. Don't imagine that every- thing is weakening. Butter is strong in this market. Don't publish your acts of charity. The Lord will keep the account straight. Don’t color meerschaums for a living. It is sim- ply dyeing by inches.—Mark Twain. Tired of Being In Print. “Mr. Smithers,” said his wife, “if I remember rightly you have often sald that you disliked to see a woman con- stantly getting herself into print?” “I do,” said Smithers positively. “You considered it unwomanly and indelicate, I believe?’ “Yery.” “And you don't see how any man could allow his wife to do anything of the kind?" * “Yes. 1 think so now.” . “Well, Mr. Smithers, in view of all the facts in the case I feel justified in asking for a new silk dress.” “A new silk dress?” “Yes. For the last eight years I have Lvon & Co. LYON & CO. WE WILL CONTINUE OUR Clearance ::- Sale OF ALL SUMMER STUFFS. Only a few items to show you the big money saving you can do by buying here. A large assortment of fine Organdies, all colors, that sold at 20c and 25¢, now per yard 1oc One lot Organdies, not so fine, thatsold at 12 Ye and 15¢c, now per yard 8c A large assortment of fine White Goods in stripe and check, that sold at 15c. and 20c., now per yard 10c We have no space to tell you of everything re- duced, such as Dress Ginghams, Percales, Wool Dress Goods, Silks, all the new shades in Messa- lines, Gloves, Hosiery, Underwear, Men's fine Shirts and Summer Underwear, Summer Suits. All Low Shoes in black, white and russet, at big reduction prices. Ladies’ Washable Coat and Jumper Suits, in white and colors, that sold at $5 and $6, now go at $2.75 & $3.90. All Ladies’ Shirt Waists at closing-out prices— must be sold now. We must have the room for our new Fall Goods. It will mean a big saving to come into our store before you buy. SUMMER GOODS MUST BE SOLD NOW. LYON & COMPANY, 47-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa. a Bellefonte Shoe Emporium, $1.48 A PAIR. MEN'S $2. WORKING SHOES Reduced to $1.48 COME AND GET A BARGAIN. YEAGER’S SHOE STORE, successor to Yeager & Davis. Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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