“Bellefonte, Pa., September 10, 1909,
AN OLD TIME HANGING.
The Dark Day When “Old Jennie” Way
Executed In Maryland.
“As dark as the day when old Jen-
nie was hung” is one of the many
quaint sayings that for generations has
been used on the lower eastern shore
of Maryland, but from the accounts
that have been given by those who.
lived in old Jennie's day there never
has been a day since that time as dark
as the day on which she was executed
for wholesale murder in the neighbor-
hood in which she lived.
The old murderess was publicly
hanged in 1815 in the old jail yard at
Princess Anne, and all those who re-
membered that particular day have
passed into the great beyond long ago.
The murderess was a white woman,
tall and angular, and it was said that
she resembled what was popularly
supposed to be a witch far more than
she did the up to date woman of that
day. In fact. local history records that
she practiced witchcraft. No one ever
knew where she came from, she hav-
ing “dropped down” very mysteriously
into the neighborhood, where she killed
a family of four. .
01d Jennie was not hanged on a scaf-
fold. In those days murderers were
executed with as little trouble and ex-
pense as possible. The wizen faced
terror of all Somerset was placed in
a cart drawn by two oxen and placed
directly under a stout limb of an old
oak tree which stood in the jail yard.
The rope was fixed in rude fashion
around her neck, amid the hurrahs of
the crowd and the curses of the
doomed woman, and when all was in
readiness a bunch of fodder was
placed ten paces from the oxen’s heads,
and they were given the word to start.
Obeying the command, they made a
bee line for the fodder and left old
Jennie dangling at the end of the rope.
That day. it has been told thousands
of times, was the darkest ever known |
in this section. Chickens remained on |
their roosts throughout the entire day.
while candles by the score burned in |
the houses that the servants might see |
to do their work. The local scientists |
of that day were at a loss to account
for the strange phenomenon, and the
graphic descriptions which they gave
of it and which were recorded years
ago make interesting reading. |
The darkies and superstitious whites |
of those days naturally thought that |
the end of time bad come. A great
many negroes declare today that the |
ghost of old Jennie may be seen stalk-
ing around on the edge of the woods |
near where she committed her crimes
any time on a dark, cloudy night, and
they are very careful not to encounter
her.—Oriole (Md. Cor. Chicago it
Ocean.
STRIKE-BREAKERS ABUSED
Blackjacks and Pistols Used Freely to
Int: midate the Men,
The meacure of advantage which
lebor receives from the new Republi-
can tariff may be conjectured after
reading the testimony of strike-break-
MY WILD WUOD HOME.
For vue Warcumas.
My wild-wood home i've ne'er forgot,
Though far I've roamed from that dear spot ;
No loveller scenes on earth are found,
"I is nature's own enchanted ground,
How pleasant are tly brooks and rills,
Thy verdant vales and sylvan hills ;
Eotrancing thoughts ! how they enfoli
As all in fancy I behold.
Oft *mid youth's pleasure-secking hours
1 sauntered through the beauteons howers ;
O peerless boon, now craved amiss,
To bask in thee was priceless bifss,
i roamed its scenes—through glen and dell,
Where goomes and elves and fairies dwell ;
Vast nature's splendor, how it thrilled ;
Each nook my heart with rapture filled.
*Mid craggy rocks and purling brooks,
By cooling streams and shady nooks,
Where wild-bird notes ring true and clear—
There, there | fain would linger near.
Back would I haste to cooling shades,
To my dear home-land ‘mong the glades ;
Ah! lite was then a blissful lot,
A hav'n that sweet contentment brought,
O fairy bower ! O golden maze!
In fancy oft on thee | gaze ;
Glens, grottoes, dells, these I'd explore,
*Mongst them I'd wander as of yore.
O wildswood home to mem'ry dear,
Fondly to thee would | draw pear ;
Kind friends betime may bid me come
And give me a zlnd welcome home.
Dear wild-wood home, [ love thee well,
Yea, cherish thy enchanting spell ;
Hope woos me back, though far I roam,
To rest within my wild-wood home,
— Alfred Bierly,
—— Do you know where to get the finest
canned goods and dried fruits, Sechler &
Co.
Fruit From Dead Trees.
Remarkable Results of Experiments in Revival of
Biighted Orchards,
Barlington, N.J., Ang. 20 —-Peaches
weighing from 10 to 12 oances and measar-
| ing a toot in circamference are on exhibi-
tion in this city as grown by Budd Rich.
ardeon, a well-known gardener, to show
what can be done with trees devastated and
| once apparently killed by San Jose scale.
| Richardson's experiment and the experi.
| ence along the same line of George W.
| Tichenor are regarded hy fruit growers a
| proving beyond all donbt the possibility of
| resurrecting the scale-hlighted trees.
|in a once-famons apple
Much public interest already has heen
oreated by this experiment on a hig cale
orchard on the
Creely farm, near this city. Thou«ands of
trees have heen torn vat by froit growers
in the last few years, a« they were con-
sidered worthless when hlighted by the
' woale and to all appearances were dead.
| The idea of cutting off the dead hranches
| with the hope that anew growth would
spring from the trunks was snggested and
trial has brought wonderlal resals.
Richardson, as an amateur gardener,
tried the same plan with scale: rained peach
trees, two years ago. The result was the
fenit, which ic said to he the largest ever
grown in the State. It is twice as large as
peaches grown on the same trees helore tr e
soale affected them, and is solid, sweet and
of a rich flavor. The queer-looking crown
of new shoots which warks the rapid sec.
ond growth was almost broken under the
weight of the fruit.
Richardson says he helieves thousands of
dollars can be saved by mavy a farmeg, if
instead of razing his ecale-tipped orchards.
he tries the plan of removiog the withered
branches, permitting the old trunk to put
ont a strong new growth that seems im.
mune to further attacks of the scile,
Loss of flesh is generally a sign of loss of
bealth. It is sarely «0 when the body be-
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| Instead of the couventioual engraved
| cards of parents and new-horn child tied
| with white «atin ribbons, there iz a novelty
card that is charming.
It ie the hand-painted profile «fa haby's
| head on a long white paper ~i'p Oue little
| haud and the careless iil of lace aronpd |
| the neck i= suggested in pened.
| On the white paper is written the name
of the newly born and the date of it
| hirth,
The long, narrow envelope is also hand
| made and sealed with the family crest in
' wax, or a tiny silver seal with the family
| initial in the centre.
| The day after the great event these cards
| are mailed to all friends of the couple in
| all parts of the coontry. :
| If one must pay to have thew done, the
| cost is not slight, hat if one ix clever with
Vo is proves un pleasant aud simple
task.
——Suhseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Pennsylvania
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
! Attorneys-at-Law.
J)iSEasED GERMS.
sanot harm healthy human bodies.
We canrot have hea'thy bodies nnless we
\ have pure hiood, =tne kind of blood that
Hood's Sar-apari'la makes
Toi great medicine has an anequalled,
npavpronched reemd for purifying and
enriching the blood,
it cures serofula, eczema, eruptions,
starr, rhenmatism, anemia, nervotis-
i ness, that tired fee’ ing, dyspepsia, loss of
1 \ppetite, geceral debility, and builds ap
{ the whole system,
It «fleets it« wonderful cures, not sim-
{ ply beeanse it contains sarsapariilid but be-
| cause it combines the utmost remedial
talnes of more than 20 different ingredi-
ents, If urged to buy any preparation
suid 10 he just as "you may be
wire it is Interior, costs less to make, and
yields the dealer a larger profit,
Get Hood's Barsapariila today. In usnaal
tg id form or in ehocolated tablets known
Rs Sarsatahe, 2
Railroad.
PENNSYLVAN
IYNTAGAR
September 22, an
Round-Trip Rate $
PICTURESQUE SUSQUE
Stop-oft within lim
Tickets good returning on regn'ar traine within
1A RAILROAD
PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS
TO
A FALL S({
d October 6, 1909
7.10 from Bellefonte.
Tickets good going on train leaving 125 P. M., connecting with SFECIAL TRAIN of
Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches runnjug via the
HANNA VALLEY ROUTE
FIFTEEN DAYS, including date of ex-
it allowed nt Buffaio returning.
Instrated Booklet and full Information mney be obtained from Ticket Agents,
cursion.
|
J. R. WOOD
PassengerTraffic Manager.
54-20-14
GEO, W, BOYD,
General Passenger Agent.
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MEYER—Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 20 &
21, Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte, Pa.
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change, Bellefonte, Pa.
B. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-Law. Prac.
tices in all the Courts. Cotsv'tation in
Office in Crider’s Ex.
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8. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
. Law, Office, Garman House Block,
Bellefonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at
tended to promptly. 40-15
S KLINE WOODRING
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bellefonte, Pa.
Practices in all the courts.
51-1-1y Office Room 18 Crider's Fxchange,
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at
. w. Office No. 11, Crider's Exchacge,
second floor, All kinds of legal business attend.
ed to promptly. Consultation in English or Aig
ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-al
Law, le Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Suc
eeswors to Urvis, Bower & Orvis, Practice in all
the courts. Consultation in English or German,
7
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law. Prac
» tice in all the courts, Consultation ino
nglish and German. Office south of court
house. All professional business will receive
prompt attention. 49-5-1y*
Physicians.
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Sur
. geon, State College, Centre county, Pa
Office at his residence. 3541
Dentists.
R. J. E. WARD, D.D.S,, office next door tc
Y. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte,
a. Gas administered for oainless extracting
teeth. Superior Crown and Briage work. Prices
52-32,
reasonable,
D* A. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, office ir
the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All
modern electric appliances used, Has had years
of experience. All work of superior quality and
Faubles' Coking Store.
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CLOTHING
OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES,
TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES.
TAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 1900, tne Genera Conrses have neen wxtensivel
pish a much more varied range of electives, alter the Freshmun Year, than hereto
ing History ; the English, French, Germans, Spanish, Latin and Greek Languages an
thie, Pedagogics, und Political Science,
adapted to the wants of those who seek either the me
tures; Psychology ;
of Teaching, or a venera! College Education
i he courses in Chemistry, Civil, Electrical,
test in the United States,
Mechanical and Mining Engineering are mony
Graduates have no diffenity in securing and holding pos tions,
YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to ali couraes om the same tevens as Young Men,
FIRST SEMESTER heging Wedneeday, September 15th, 1609.
modified, #0 a= to fur-
fore, includ-
d Liters
These courses are especially
«t thorough traning for the Profession
the very
For specimen examination papers or for 2atalogne giving nm! intvrmation respecting courses of
tidy, expanses, ete., and showing positions held hy graduntes, widress
Men's Furnishing Goods.
HE REGISTRAR,
State College, Centre County. Pa.
Ls
RIEEEER PEPE
| prices reasonable, 158.1y
Yeterinary.
THAN OTHERS
| D® 8S. M. NISSLEY
VETERINARY SURGEON,
Office Palace Livery Stable,
Bellefonte, Pa. There would be no advan-
320-1y* Graduate University of Pa.
tage in trading with us. But
Patents.
we do. You who trade
ATENTS, TRADE MARKS, COPY. * at
Tights, &c. Anyone sendiug a sketch and
description may quickly ascertain our opinion
Faybles’ know that the
free whether an invention is probably patentable.
Communications strictly confidential, Handbook
ou patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing
patents. 60 years experience, ttens taken
throngh Munn & Co. receive Special Notice, with.
out charge in the
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,
a handsome {llastrated hhonis i Largest etreula
ation o! any scientific journal, Terms §3 a year;
four months 81. Sold by all newsdealers.
MUNN & CO,
361 Hroadway, New York.
Branch Office, 625 F St, Washington, D. C.
52-45-1y.
Best Clothes
you ever wore came from
Money to Loan.
the Fauble stores. If you
don’t trade here compare
the clothes you have been
getting with those of a
ONEY TO LOAN on good secany
and houses for rent,
J. M.REICHLIXNE
Arty at Law
Al
Al-l4-1v
Meat Markets.
ere before the United States district
attorney at the plant of the Pressed
Steel Car company of Shoenville, near
Pittsburg, which i= vnicr investiga
ET THE
BEST MEATS.
You save nothing by buying, Jeet. thn
or gristly meats. [I use only the
Fauble customer and you
will undoubtedly find it to
Fall 1909
gins to show a marked decrease of its nor. | 0
mal weight. There is a certain fixed rela |
tion hetween the height and the weight |
which 18 reckoned on by insnrance compa: |
nies in their estimate of risks, and aov |
marked variation from the scale means re- |
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tion. No industry hn- been more gen-
eronsly protected than that, and
though there was u pretense of de-
creasing the rate on steel in the
Pavne-Aldrich bill, the protection on
the structural steel used in making
the cars was largely increased.
The strike in that plant, which be:
gan several weeks ago, and promised
for a time to develop the proportion"
of a civil war, was less on account of
wages than because of the ill-treat-
ment of the men. The schedule
of wages was based on the piece plan,
and it was alleged that men were
cheated in the totaling of their earn
to pursue.
jection for the applicant
flesh ? Begin the nee of Dr. Pierce's Gold-
en Medical Discovery. It cures diseases of
the stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition, increases the supply of pare,
rich blood, and #0 builds up the hody into
sonnd health. A gain in weight, by the
addition of good, sound flesh follows the
nse of the “Discovery” in almost every
cave,
———Do you know we have the old style
sngar syrups, pure goods at 40 cents and
60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co.
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——Do you know where to get your
Fletcher's Castoria.
Are yon losing |
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Ready Now
LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLE,
And supply my customers with the fresh
est, choicest, hest blood and muscle mak
ing Steaks and Roasts, My prices ar
30 higher than poorer meats are else
where.
I always have
wee DRESSED POULTRY mem
Guine io season, and any kinds of gen
meats you want.
Tay My Swuor.
BEEZEKR,
Eigh Street, Bellefont.
43-84-19 P. L
Travelers Guide
ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNA
Fletcher's Castoria.
your advantage to
TRADE HERE
We begin this season better
than ever. We have never
shown as many
ings. In other words, the complaint garden seeds in packages or by measure | Condensed Time ‘Table effective June 17, 1908
was that a piece of work in the pro Sechler & Co. : Reapiagwe Rup Vo:
cess of construction would pass : . ——e Stations (TTT
through the hands of different opera: No 1|0 5/No 8 No 6 No [vos Hand
tives, and in the calculation of the Castoria. oT — hl
wage due each some of them would be m= Ps hs "i eo| BELLEFONTE. | 8 1 Pain
left out altogether. Redress being re- 118! 300 382 N STE: 3 4 1520987 Tailored Suits
Fated, Hho We steosk, aed the ak pod et 1
constabulary, known as “troopers,” 72 2 47}... .| 843] 438) 013
was called in to subdue them. Follow: 7 83/f7 23! 8 61|...Hu rg... 18.39 4 34/0 09
lus te some of the testimony: Te ig an ase) and Overcoats
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the first witness called. He came to 7 48/17 46} 8 08!....Clintondale....| {8 26, 4 18/18 54
the plant eight days ago, but insisted To 8 3 Ta Siaeeyvile.. 1s 18 4 wai 48 | as you will find with us now
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plant, WAS held ba a 8. 1 bra! org made under his al 8108 3 05 856 R38 It’s here. You can find
ssked for my money, and that very supervision for over 3 yeats, Jie no (N.Y. Central 4 Hudson River K. R.)
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as unconscious for ten minutes.” Bniidren—Experience "against ~ Experi: tig 29] 11 30 lve NHyPORT Are 330) @80 what you want. Its here
produced a shirt, which was cov: n Reading Ry.
780) 6 50}ueesrererers PHILA weerreee.| 18 86] 11 SC
Wore when Be was saul a WHAT 18 CASTORIA Mott en who COME 10:0UF SIONS oo a eewyont.| | +o | you will get a Big Dollar's
fied that Dhan, been present’ when Castors faa harmless subatitute for Cas. simply say: ~ Was. AIA. ruta Los Sbbcm :
Hart beaten. “I rushed into the as
ofice and called for help.” said Mod. Be ones Hat I want a WALLAY H. GEPHART, worth for your dollar every
ere, ou the tng me 0 hell oo & Jib age, Is rs JAraGhte, ul Si et son 9” Ges ___ Superintendent,
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there, not the misfits.—Yonkers States- 217 43 mpevens.... s | 12 ii
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