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Bellefonte, Pa., September 24, 1908, |
THE MAN IN THE STAGE.
A Tragedy of the Olden Days In New
York City.
A good many years ago, long before
skyscrapers and rapid transit were
thought of and New York was just a
big growing town, they used to tell a
story that was ghastly enough to cur-
dle the blood of the most skeptical
and to keep people of nervous temper-
ament awake of nights.
The tale went that of a summer
night a husband and wife, returning
home from the theater, entered a Fifth
avenue stage far downtown and for
many blocks were the only occupants.
A little above Fourteenth street. how-
ever, the stage came to an abrupt
stop, the door was opened. and three
young men entered. One of the three
had evidently been drinking heavily,
for his companions were obliged to
help him to his seat. The door was
closed behind them, and the stage con-
tinued its journey northward.
About ten blocks farther on one of
the young men rose and. bidding his
friends good night, stopped the stage
and alighted. A few minutes later
the second of the three said, “Well.
good night, Dick.” pulled the strap.
stepped to the sidewalk and walked
off through one of the side straets.
There remained in the stage only the
husband and wife and the young man
who was obviously under thc influ-
ence of liquor and who sat in a
crouching attitude in a corner of the
stage under the dim flickering lamp.
After a time the husband noticed
that the young man’s head seemed to
be drooping as if in sleep. and. fearing
that he might be borne beyond his
destination, he rose, tapped him on the
shoulder and called attention to the
number of the street they had just
passed. There was no response, and
the husband repeated his words, lean-
ing over as he did so. Then be sud-
denly straightened up. turned to his
wife and said quickly, “We will get
out here.”
She began to protest, but he simply
repeated the woids, pulled the strap
and helped her to alight. As they
stood under the corner lamppost she
turned questioningly and asked him
why he fosisted on their getting out
of the bus so far below their destina-
tion.
“Because.” he replied, “that young
man's throat was cut from ear to ear.”
HORSESHOE LUCK.
An Old Myth That Goes Back to the
Greeks and Their Sea God,
Of all the emblems for good fortune
the horseshoe stands amoung the tirst
Everybody knows it is unlucky to pass
a horseshoe on the road without pick-
ing it up. It is a luck emblem of the
greatest power. We are indebted for
this statement to old tales centuries in
age that have descended from father
to son, from mother to daughter.
through the years.
The old wyths repay research. The
luck of the horseshoe has a most re-
spectable beginning. It is traced to the
religion of the old Greeks and their sea
god, Poseidon, who was identical with
the Roman sea god Neptune.
To Poseidon horses were sacred, and
to him they were sacrificed. Poseidon
wus believed to have created the first
horse when he struck the ground with
his trident and a horse sprang from
the hole, which afterward became a
spring. The sea god was the lord of
springs. To. him all springs were
ascribed. In the shape of a horse he
sometimes wandered by the shores of
his ocean domain, and where he struck
his hoofs devply there the waters gush-
ed out and permanent springs were
found. This is the reason why horse-
shoes are reckoned lucky. Going to the
root of the matter, one sees a nature
myth as the root principle. From the
sea all rain comes, and to the sea al’
springs owe primal origin. and to the
rain and the fresh waters, sea derived.
we owe all fertility on earth.
The old Greeks therefore worshiped
Poseidon as the fortune giver through
his springs. They gave him horses, his
precious beasts, and they adored the
footprints of horses when they found
them, for they might be the very foot-
priuts of the god himself.
When the borses came to be shod the
transition of the luck emblem from the
footprint itself to the shoe mark, prac-
tically the same thing, was easy.
Pegasus. the winged horse. from
whose hoofs the water springs gushed
copiously when he came to eartb. has
been credited with the origin of the
horseshoe luck.
The horseshoe was a specific against
earthquakes. It would keep a house
safe from harm by earth shaking.
Again oue perceives the sea myth—
Poseidon was the shaker of the earth.
~Team Owners’ Gazette,
Obeying the Autocrat.
That fine old New Englander, Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, laid down the
rule that the law of the road entitles
a man to two looks at every pretty
woman. This fair and proper limit
provokes no complaiot in Kansas City,
and it is not commonly exceeded.
though we would have to go farafield
to find a locality with more women
worth looking at than are seen on the
streets of Kansas City every day.—
Kansas City Times.
Had All the Others.
“Were you ever in love?” asked the
sweet young thing.
“Neo,” replied the bachelor, “but you
can't mention any other fashionable
~ disease that I haven't bhad."”-=Detroit
Free Press.
ST
ER
As
FELT HATS.
Evolution of the Fluffy Fur into the
It is ap interesting matter to follow
| stage by stage the evolution of » Ilittie
! pile of soft. duly rablLit fur into the
finished hat, whether a liobt colored
crush or a raven black hard bat of the
derby shape. The general idea about
such a hat is that it is cut and wade
or molded out of a sheet of felt, so
that amazement comes when one is
shown bales and heaps of rabbit fur
and is told that it is out of this that
hats are made.
much a primary material, but felting
is the process by which wool, fur or
hair is matted together and formed
into a close fabric. For bats rabbit
fur is the material used. The first
step In its treatment is the thorough
cleansing of the close clipped fur in a
machine, which winnows it of all dirt
or foreign matter and leaves it in a
soft, fluffy condition resembling the
finest and lightest down.
Anything less resembling a bat it is
impossible to imagine. But the mar-
velous ingenuity of the next process
accomplishes an almost magical
change. In the central box of a hop-
per-like machine a big copper cone re-
volves, From above the soft, fluffy
fur is fed down in a shower, which
clings like gray snow on the revolving
cone, while jets of water and steam
spray on the fur mat and plaster it
into a complete covering. In a minute
or two the cone is covered to the
depth of one-eighth of an inch with
this matter and saturated fur, which
is now become felt. The machine is
stopped, the cone is taken out, and the
workman dexterously peels off the feit
covering. Being built up on the cone,
it is also cone shaped and looks like a
gigantic sugar loaf bag. It is the em-
bryo hat,
In this first state it is a soft, wet,
felt cone, measuring 24 by 30 Inches.
Rolled up, it enters upon a series of
processes and is shrunk together so
that it measures 10% by 14 inches.
The bat, now a browny-gray felt
coue, like a clown's cap. is smoothed
by being placed against rapidly revolv-
ing sandpaper. It is stiffened by be-
ing dipped in shellac, dyed black by
fmmersion in a vat and then passes
on to be shaped. Warm water gives
the felt pliability again, and the wan
pulling out or “earsing’ the apex of
the cone draws and smooths it down
to a wooden block of the exact shape
and size the hat is required to be, As
it dries it takes its destined shape and
firmoess as regards the crown, while
the brim is still lat and untrimmed.
The body of the hat is now practi-
cally finished. Then comes the shap-
ing of the brim, which is worked down
aud bent over a wooden frame of the
exact curl and line of the ordained de-
sign. Each size and style of bat has
its own frame, as it has also its iron
mold, wood block, etc., and every al-
teration in a season's styles and shapes
calls for an entirely new set of molds.
-Brooklyn Eagle.
— ‘Art is a wonderful thing," #aid the
critio.
“Yes,” answered Miss Cayonoe. ‘‘The
very word ‘art’ is of great advantage when
vou have heen a little shocked and fear to
admit is."
——Do you know where to get the fines
teas, coffees and spices, Bechler & Co.
—-Every man has three temperaments :
the one he has, the one he shows and the
one he thinks be has.
~Do you know thas yon can get the
finest oranges, bapannas and grape fruit,
and pine apples, Sechler & Co
——*‘‘T"ges your wife always think he-
fore she speaks?"
“Idon’t know. [I've never heen up that
early.”
~— Do you know where to get your
garden seeds in packages or hy measure
Sechler & Co.
Scott—'‘Is Jones married?”
Mott—*‘I guess not. I never heard him
blame his wife for anything.”’
Castoria.
CASTORIA
FOR INFANTS and CHILDREN,
Bears the signature of
CHAS. H. FLETCHER.
ThejKind You Have Always Bought.
In Use for Over 30 Years.
CASTORIA
The Centaur Company, New York City.
654-35 21m
Children Cry for )
Fletcher's Castoria.
Felt indeed is not so |
“Prevention is better than cure,” says
the familiar proverb, So fawiliar indeed
| 1» that proverb that we Jose its force. We
, need to be reminded that prevention is bet.
ter than cure becanse it sases os time,
‘money aod sofferivg. We also need the
reminder that prevention is a great deal
easier than cure. Mauy times di«ease which
might bave heen prevented cannot be
| eared at any cost. Ahont ope.sixth of the
deaths of this conntry are due t) consnmp-
tion. The nee of Dr Pietce'#Golden Medi-
cal Discovery has saved thousands and
thousands of men and women who saffered
‘fiom obstinate coogb, bronchitis, ‘‘weak
Ilnngs,”’ bleeding of the lnngs, and similar
, ailments, which, if neglected, or nnskill-
| tally treated, lead to consumption. Niveth-
| eight per cent. of those who give ‘Golden
Medica! Discovery’’ a fair and [faithlal
trial, are perfectly and permanently cared.
There is nothing ‘‘just as good’ as Dr
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
J. R. WOOD
PassengerTraffic Manager.
!
Pennsylvania Railroad.
54-20-14
Colieges & Schools.
Hood's Sarsaparilla. J
1
DISEASED GERMS.
Cannot harm healthy haman bodies,
We canpot have healthy bodies unless we
have pure blood, ~tne kind of blood that
Hood's Sarsapariila makes.
This great medicine has an unequalled
noapproached record for purifying and
enriching the blood.
it cures serofula, eczema, eruptions,
Sah; po anemia, nervous
ness, that tired fee ing, dys ia, pss of
appetite, geaeral debility, And builgs up
the whole system. ‘
It effects its wonderful cures, not sim-
piy because it contains sarsaparilla but be-
cause it combines the utmost remedial
valnes of more thap 20 different iogredi-
ents. If urged to buy any preparation
sald 10 be “just as "you may be
sure it is inferior, costs less to make, and
yields the dealer a larger profit,
Get Hood's Sarsapariila today. In usual
liquid form or in chocolated tablets known
as Sarsatabs,
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS
TO
——)NIAGARA FALLS (——
OCTOBER 6, 1909
Round-Trip Rate $7.10 from Bellefonte.
Tickets good going on train leaving 123 PP. M., connecting with SFECIAL TRAIN of
Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches runusiug via the
PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE
Tickets good returning on regnlar trains within FIFTEEN DAYS, including date of ex-
zarsion. Stop-oft within iimit allowed at Buffalo returning.
Hiustrated Booklet and full Information may be obtained from Ticket Agents,
GEO, W, BOYD,
General Passenger Agent.
.
Clothing.
53
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BEEEESEREES
TAKE ADVICE
BUY EARLY
Hats and Caps.
8)
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IF YOU WISH TO BECOME.
THE PENNSYLVANIA
STATE COLLEGE
' A Chemist,
An Engineer,
An Electrician,
A Scientific Farmer,
in short, if you wish to secure a training thet wil! ft you well for any honorable pursuit in life,
£ Teacher,
A Lawyer,
A Physician,
A Journalist,
OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES,
TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES.
tures ; Psychology ;
of
TAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 190), the General Courses have been extensive!
pish a much more varied range of electives, after the Freshman
ing History ; the Eagiih, French, German, Spanish, Latin and Greek La
Men's Furnishing Goods.
fons,
THE REGISTRAR,
State College, Centre County. Pa.
modified, so as to fur.
ear, than heretofore, includ.
nguages and Litera
thics, Pedagogies, and Political Science. These courses are especially
adapted to the wants of those who seek either the most thorough training for the Profession
eaching, or a venera! College Eduention.
The courses in Chemistry, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Mining Engineering are among the very
best in the United States, Graduates have no difficulty (in securing and holding ov
YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all courses on the same terms as Young Men,
FIRST SEMESTER begins Wednesday, September 15th, 1809.
For specimen examiaation papers or for catalogue giving full intormation respecting courses of
tudy, expenses, ete,, and showing positions held by graduates, address
the Best
While the assortment is
large and complete we are
showing the Largest, Most
Up-to-Date line of. . . . .
Men's -
ever brought to Bellefonte.
We sell only Honest Goods.
WE THINK
Ready-to-Wear
Clothing made in the world
is represented in our this
Fall's stock.
like to show you. . . ...
Wear
We would
KEEPER ERP ED FEDER RE EERE EER
Attorneys-at-Law.
IN
on the heads of
everything else,
latest styles,
Ect
BEER SE55E
You'll always find the
Stetson
the men who wear
very best clothing, and insist upon having the best of
We have the Stetson Soft and Derby Hats in all the
FOR SALE ONLY
ee) AT (ee
FAUBLE’S
KEK SEERSE
Every Stetson
bears the
Stetson Name’
the
M. Fauble & Son.
ERIE EEEESE
EE EE SE Eo ES ENE Ed ETE RENT
bh
Money to Loan.
MEYER—Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 20 &
21, Crider's Exchange, Hellefonte, Pa.
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WT B. SPANGLER ~— Attorney-at-Law. Prac
. tices in all the Courts. Consultation in
Ergiish and German, Office in Crider's Ex.
change, Bellefonte, Pa. 40-22
MONEY TO LOAN on good secarity
A and houses for ren.
J. M.KEICHLINE
51-14-1y Att'y at Law,
Meat Markets.
Law. Office, Garman House Block,
Pa. All kinds of legal! business ate
H 8. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor at
.
«llefonte,
tended to promptly.
S KLINE WOODRING
.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bellefonte, Pa.
Practices in al! the courts.
51-1-1y Office Room 18 Crider's Exchange,
H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at
J. Law. Office No. 11, Crider's Exchange
second floor. All kinds of legal business attend.
ed to promptly. Conavltation in English or Ger-
man. 36-4
ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY—Attorneys-at
Law, Eagle Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Suc
cessors to Orvis, Bower & Orvis. Practice in ali
the courts, Consultation in English or Sermun,
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law. Prac
. tice in all the courts, Consultation in
Eniish and German. Office south of coun
house, All professional business will receive
prompt attention. 10-5-1y*
———
Physicians.
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Sur
. geon, State College, Centre county, Pa.
Office at his residence. 35-41
Dentists.
...
R. J. E. WARD, D.D.S., office next door to
Y. M. C. A. room, High street, Bellefonte,
Gas administered for painless extracting
teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. Prices
reasonable, 52-32.
R. BH, W. TATE, Surgeon Dentist, office in
D the Bush Eo Bellefonte, Pa. All
modern used. Has had
electric Appliances years
of experience. All work of superior quality and
prices reasonable, 581y
Yeterinary.
Dx 8. M. NISSLEY
VETERINARY SURGEON,
Office Palace Livery Stable,
ET THE
BEST MEATS.
You save nothing by buying, r, thin
or gristly meats, | use To Be :
LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLE,
and HppLY HY SusOISry with the fresh.
est, choleest, best blood and muscie mak
ing Steaks snd Roasts. My prices are
no higher than poorer meats are eise
where.
! always have
DRESSED POULTRY meee
Gune in season, and sony kinds of good
meats you want.
Tay My Suor,
P. L. BEEZER.
High Street. Hellefoate
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