A BIT OF SLANG.
was the innocent cause of the slang
is
ty of clear enunciation and
commands like an officer,
things to their own amusement was
shown a few minutes after that first
through their company streets heard
privates in front of a group of men
shouting out, “Make a noise like an
officer!” whereupon the entire “class”
would roar “Umps!” A reporter sent
an account to a New York paper, and
from this grew expressions such as
“Make a noise like a hoop and roil
away.” ete.
However, it is seldom one hears the
word “arms” or “march,” the voice
finding it much easier to slur the word
till it may mean anything, and as the
preparatory command indicates what
is to be done the command following
is merely a signal for the execution
of what has already been specified.—
Army and Navy Journal
LEGAL ADVICE.
The Lawyer's Duty In Giving Counsel
to His Client.
In the realm of advice a lawyer may
choose between counseling his client
how to uphold the rights secured to
him by the justice of his cause or how
to obtain benefits from the application
of technicalities and the use of the
weaknesses of the particular statute
or precedents under consideration
whereby he may attain advantages in-
consistent with fair play between man
and man,
Every time a lawyer eucourages such
an application of the law as, resulting
in injustice, casts disrepute upon the
law or its administration be is plainly
promoting discord either in the present
or the future,
Every time a lawyer counsels cob-
troversy for the establishment of a
right as recognized by existing law
or for the promulgation of new law
beneficial to the majority of society he
is exercising his true function, and
the charge which he lays upon his in-
dividual client and through bim upon
industry and progress in the mass, if
reasonable in amount, is well earned
and should be cheerfully paid.
When, however, a lawyer gives the
other kind of advice the expense, per-
haps cheerfully borne by the client
who profits personally therefrom, must
be finally laid upon society as a whole,
which is thereby paying for its own
injury and oaturally resents the
charge.~Donald R. Richberg in At-
lantic.
Jig ways on tne Stage.
1 have known a aress coat bandea
from one to another in the wings sev-
eral times during a performance. It
was a current idea tbat white cotton
stockings assumed the appearance of
silk from the front by making a beavy
line of white chalk on the shin bone.
A white tie was easily made from a
strip of note paper, and even a shirt
front could be managed from highly
glazed note paper. White cotton gloves
were de rigueur in place of the more
expensive kid ones. A comedian, bav-
mg no black stockings, once blacked
nis legs. After the show he asked the
stage wansger, “Do we play this
piece again? “Yes; next week.”
“Oh, then 1 need vot wash my legs!”
—From “Ramblings of an Old Mum-
mer,” by Russell Craufurd.
Letter Perfect and Looked the Part.
An amateur theatrical company was
recently arranging for the performance
.of a play which contained a rich va-
riety of characters, says London
‘Sketch. Owing to this fact little nrog-
ress was made with the cast, a few
members of the company making a
.dead set at principal positions, while
minor characters were going a-begging.
One rather vacuous looking youth
brother artist.
“In my opinion,” exclaimed the lat-
ter, “young Jones must, in the inter-
ests of economy, take the part of Sim-
kins the Fool.”
“Why economy?” demanded Mr.
Jones indignantly. i
“Well, you see, my dear fellow,” was
the quiet reply, “you won't need any,
touching up.”
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The Sacrifice.
“a isin couple’ mid
Simpkios, married a days
Sluape a courtship which had lasted
Record-Herald.
Doesn't Work. }
“Cheerfulness is riches.”
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«Ob, no! If you can't pay a bill, bed
ing cheerful about it only makes the
other man madder.”~—
Press.
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Dropped the Subject.
“five thousaud dollars for a dog!”
be exclaimed as he looked up from
nis uewspaper. “Do you believe any
one over pald any such price, Maria?”
“I'm sure | don't know, James,” she
retu without stopping her needle-
work for a moment. “Does the
. “Some of these well bred ani-
lie about It."
“] know that, Maria. But just think
of it—just try to grasp the magnitude
wind!
Five thousand dollars for a dog! Why,
bang It, Maria, that's more than I'm
worth!"
“] know it, James, but some are
worth more than others.”
She went calmly on with her sewing,
while he fumed and sputtered for a
moment and then dropped the subject,
especinlly the weak feminine mind
part of it.
Cosmic Dust.
A particle of dust one-bundred thou-
santh of an inch in diameter is held
In its place in space by the force
of gravitation. but a particle smaller
than this is pushed outward into space
by the weight of the sun's light, be-
cause as the particle becomes smaller
its surface, which is subject to pres-
sure, becomes greater in proportion to
its weight,
The sun's corona, the zodlacal light,
the aurora borealis and the comet's
tail are all composed of these infinitely
minute particles, in some cases white
hot and in others merely illuminated
by the sun, which are being constantly
driven away from the sun by the pres-
sure of its light.
In the case of the aurora borealis
there is a movement of the light both
away from and toward the sun. This
is explained by the theory that the
welght of the sun's light presses the
particles ourward into space for a cer-
tain distance and that then a certain
pumber of them cohere together until
they have sufficient weight to be at-
tracted toward the sun once more by
the force of gravitation.
Rarely Disturbed.
Two spiders who dwelt in different
parts ot a church chanced to meet to-
gether in the aisle one day when out
for a constitutional.
“How are you getting on?" said spi-
der No. 1 to spider No. 2.
“Oh, moderately!” was the reply. “1
don't feel very comfortable on Sun-
days. 1 live in the pulpit under the
cushion, and on that day the parson
comes and bangs the book and sends
his fists on the side, and 1 have to
keep very close or else some day |
think he'll hit me. He bangs with
such a force that 1 know he'll squash
me to a jelly.”
*Oh, you come and live with me!”
said his companion. “I'm never trou-
bled. I'm aiways comfortable and nev-
er disturbed from one year's end to the
other.”
“Indeed!” said the other spider.
“And where do you live?”
“Oh, I live in the poorbox!” was the
reply.—Pearson’s Weekly.
Antiquity of Fishing.
Probably no branch of industry can
lay claim to greater antiquity than
that of fishing. Its origin would seem
to be coeval with the earliest efforts
of buman ingenuity. for the oldest
monuments of antiquity show the fish-
erman in full possession of the imple-
ments of his calling, and even those
tribes of savages which have learned
peither to keep flocks nor to till the
flelds are skilled in the fabrication of
the hook, the fish spear and the net
The earliest civiiization of the eastern
Mediterranean was begun with fishing.
Sidon, which means “fishery,” was
originally a fishing village, and its en-
terprising inbabitants devoted their at-
tention mainly to the collection of a
certain kind of mollusks, from which
they prepared the famous tyrian pur
ple, prized more highly for the rich
ness and variety of its hues than any
other dye known to the ancients.
The Aurora Borealis.
Whatever may be the cause of the
aurora borealis, its height does not ap-
pear to be limited by the atmosphere.
The rays sometimes touch the earth in
Scandinavia, coming between the ob-
server and elevated places, but Flogel
years ago obtained data showing that
a large aurora seen in northern Ger-
many must have had a height of sixty
miles and that the rays often rise to
450 miles, their points glowing with
red light.
Seeking For Danger.
“I'm going to lick Smith.”
“Why?”
“He said 1 was a horse thief and a
liar.” .
“Did be prove it
“No.”
“Then let well enough alone and
don't get him any madder.”—Cleve-
land Leader.
imperiled Treasure.
Indignant Wife—That new chauffeur
bas only just brought the children and
me home, and now he's taken the cook
out for a spin. Husband—Great beav-
% en! He doesn’t half know how to man-
| age a car, and she’s the first decent
cook we've bad in a year.—Brooklyn
Life.
Either Way.
“Happiness merely consists of get-
ting the things we want,” remarked
the wise guy.
“Or of not getting the things we
Fre@ don't want,” supplemented the simple
| wog—Phitadelphia Record.
The most remarkable example of a
book made town is Biskra, the oasis in
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seaport, of Paimpol.
consequence have visit gf Paimpol in
the hope of passing the summer there.
Vain hope! Paimpol, with its muddy,
smelly tidal river, is not quite an ideal
holiday resort.— Exchange.
EXPENSIVE STEAK.
Ten Pounds of Beef That Sold For
$48 a Pound.
The highest price ever paid for beef-
steak so far as is known was at Circle
City, Alaska. The first beefsteak that
ever reached that town sold for $48 a
pound, according to the newspapers of
the time.
There were ten pounds of the steak,
which was shipped 250 miles to Circle
City.
When the owner of the precious bit
of meat reached the camp the miners
turned out in a body to see it. It was
placed on exhibition and attracted as
much attention as an elephant. Every-
body wanted a piece of it, and the
prices offered were such as would have
resulted in a mining camp quarrel if it
had not been decided to raffle the
steak off for the benefit of a hospital
which Bishop Rowe was trying to es-
tablish for the miners at Circle City.
Bids were started at $5 a pound and
rose briskly to $35. Finally in order to
avoid complications it was decided to
sell tickets at prices from 50 cents to
$2.50 for the privilege of drawing for
a slice. After $480 worth of tickets
had been sold the drawing began, and
to the relief of those in charge of the
sale no trouble resulted.
Sin Eaters.
“Sin eaters” of the old days, like
“mutes” of quite recert times, were
hired performers at funerals. in con-
sideration of sixpence in money. 8
bow! of beer and a crust of bread these
sires, as they were called—"long, lean.
ugly. lamentable rascals”—would by
eating over the body take upon them.
selves all the sins of the deceased and
so free him from afterward walking
the earth as a ghost, so that his soul
might rest in peace. This custom pre-
vafled all over Wales and the adjoin-
ing English counties and was observed
even down to 1686. The usage is sald
to have arisen from a mistaken inter-
pretation of Hosea iv, 8, “They eat up
the sin of my people.” The more like-
ly origin of this strange custom is the
Levitical scapegoat. A much later rem-
nant of this obtained at Amersden, Ox-
fordshire, where, after every funeral,
a cake and a flagon of ale were brought
to the minister in the church porch.—
London Standard. Y
Stone Cake.
In very unusual seasons the peopie
of Rajputan, in India, are deprived of
seeds and succulent roots of grasses.
Under these very adverse conditions
the barks of trees and even ground up
rocks are resorted to principally to
give bulk to the scanty meal and there-
by to stay the pangs of hunger for a
longer time. A soft stone found on the
Bikanir-Marwar border of Jaipua ie
largely used in that part of the coun-
try to give bulk to the meager mesl.
This stone is friable and easily ground
into fine powder. It contains an oleagi-
nous substance which has some nutri
ent qualities, and the people have
found that when finely ground and
used in proportions of about one-fourth
to three-fourths of flour it does not fm-
pair digestion for a considerable time.
Domestic Repartee.
Mrs. Fidgett—Are the stars shining.
John? Mr. Fidgett—Did you ever
know the stars to do anything eise
than shine? (Later) Mr. Fidgett—Is the
rain still coming down, Bessie? Mrs.
Fidgett—Did you ever know it to do
anything else than come down, JohuY
Mr. Fidgett—Yes. 1 have known it to
hold up.
4 Not Much by the Day.
Lady—What! Thirty-eight cents a
dozen for eggs! Why. that’s more than
8 cents for one egg. Grocer—Well,
mum, you must remember that one egg
is a whole day's work for one hen.—
Cleveland Leader.
Revolver Needed.
John—1"ll bring you a fork, sir. The
Customer — What for? Joho — The
cheese, sir. The Customer—A fork'e
no good. Bring a revolver.—Loudon
Sketch.
A Slim Chance.
Willie—Pa, why do they call our lan-
the mother tongue? Pa-—8h!
It's because your father never gets a
chance to use it.—London Tit-Bits,
Only those who do something for tha
world have a right to wear its crowns.
~Wentworth F. Stewart.
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Madler’s Theory Is That It Is the
Star Alcyone.
THE CENTER OF GRAVITY.
According to the Astronomer, the
Principal Star of the Pleiades Is the
Body Around Which All Created
Matter Within Our Ken Revolves.
It has been the dream of all the ro-
mantic astronomers since the time of
Copernicus to prove the existence of 2
central sun, says Lawrence Hodges,
writing in the New York Lribune. By
this is meant a heavenly body as much
larger than the sun as the sun itself
is larger than the earth, round which
the sun, with all its planets, must re-
volve. It has been proved that the
sun and all its satellites are rushing
forward through space with enormous
velocity, but whether the motion was
in a straight line or a circular path
was not proved for some time.
But even if it was proved a curved
path and that there probably existed
a central sun that transcended the
earth's lord in size, why couldn't we
see it? The only answers are that it
would have to be nonluminous or else
so far away that the light badn’t reach-
ed us yet. But if all the stars, includ-
ing our sun, were children of this big
sun, just as the earth is the child of
the sun and the moon of the earth,
they would have had to have been
flung off from the big sun with a
greater velocity than that of light in
order for the big sun not to be visible
and still be luminous; also the big sun
would have to be luminous if any of
its children were, for that is the in-
variable law of the heavens. So the
problem simmered down to finding a
star or group of stars that would take
the place of the central sun.
The motion of the solar system hav-
ing been settled as to fact, quantity
and direction, astronomers set about
to find the center of gravity of the
whole astral system, for there, if any-
where, the central sun was to be
found. An astronomer named Mad-
ler thought he had found the star to
satisfy the necessary conditions in the
consteliation known as Taurus, or the
Bull. A closer search proved the spe-
cial star under examination to be lack-
ing in some of the conditions, so this
one was left and the search begun
anew. This same astronomer persist-
ed in his search with a wonderful
faith in his theory and at last found
a star fulfilling in the most wonderful
and complete manner the necessary
couditions, Every one is familiar with
the beautiful little cluster known as
the Pleiades. or seven stars. The teles-
cope, however, shows fourteen stars
clustered about the beautiful and bril-
liant star Alcyone, which is the op-
tical center of this group.
The proper motions of all these have
been determined with great exactness.
They are all in the same direction and
are all nearly equal to each other, and,
what is still more important, the mean
of their proper motions differs from
that of the central star, Alcyone, by
only one-thousandth of a second of
arc in right ascension and by only
two-thousandths of a second in decli-
pation. Here, then, is found a mag-
nificent group of suns either actually
allied together and sweeping together
through space or else composing a
cluster so situated as to be affected
by the same apparent motion produced
by the sun's progression through the
celestial regions.
But an extension of the limits of re-
search round Alcyone exhibits also the
wonderful truth that out of 110 stars
being within 15 degrees of this center
there are sixty moving south—that is,
in the same direction—in full accord-
ance with the hypothesis that Alcyone
is the center, forty-nine showing prac-
tically ne motion, while only one sin-
gle individual that moves at all con-
trary to the computed motion. Thus
was Madler's profound speculation
justified. Furthermore, assuming Al-
cyone as the grand center of the mil-
lions of stars composing our astral sys-
tem and the direction of the sun’s mo
tion to be as before mentioned. Mad-
ler investigated the consequent move-
ments of all the stars in every quarter
of the heavens.
Just where the swiftest motions
should be found in accordance with
this assumption there they actually ex-
ist, this either demonstrating the truth
of the theory or else showing a well
nigh impossible series of coincidences.
Therefore the concluson given out by
Madler is that Alycone, the principal
star of the Pleiades, now occupies the
center of gravity and is at present the
great central sun about which the uni-
verse of stars and all created matter
within our ken is revolving, each en-
tity in its own special path.
Cordwood Counsel Fee.
A Barton county farmer sought ad-
vice from a Golden City attorney
about suing his wife for divorce on
the ground that she did not agree with
him on a horse trade he bad made.
The attorney advised him, and the
farmer agreed to pay him for it in
cordwood. A few days later the wife
and one of the little children went to
town with the first installment of the,
wood and unloaded it in the lawyer's
shed. —~Kansas City Star.
The Color Scheme.
“Wht do some lawyers CaITy green
bags? :
“In some instances they expect to
bug that kind of game.”—New York
"ross, :
Self inspection is the best cure for:
epll esteem - Wordsworth,
IN BUYING SHOES.
Retail shoe men in order to get their shoes
when they want them, and get them as they want
them, must buy six months in advance of a season.
It is very hard to tell just what is wanted in styles
as the styles of shoes change very quickly. I for
one, made a mistake this season; purchased too
many iace shoes.
Lace Shoes are Not Wanted
Button Shoes have the floor.
I will sell at once all my new fall Ladies’
Shoes, in Lace and Blucher,
AT A BIG REDUCTION,
Sale begins at once.
Must sell them before the
season becomes advanced. Will not hold them
until they become old.
To the Ladies’ that wear Lace Shoes now is
the time to get New Fall Shoes at a big reduction.
Dorothy Dodd, John, Cross, and Clement
& Ball, Ladies’ High Grade Shoes.
$4.00 Shoes now $3. $3.50 Shoes now $2.75
and a big lot of $3.00 Shoes now at $2.00.
Ladies, this is a chance you cannot afford to
miss if you like Lace Shoes,
Remember the sale starts at on®e and lasts
until all the Lace Shoes are sold.
Do not put it off until the best are all picked
out, come at once, or you will be sorry for it later.
YEAGER’S SHOE STORE,
successor to Yeager & Davis.
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Lyon & Co.
LYON & CO.
LET US SHOW YOU
Ladies’ and Misses Suits
WITH INDIVIDUALITY.
Our Special Sale of Ladies and Misses’ Coat
Suits has brought so many buyers, that we were
compelled to order for the fourth time a full line
of Coat Suits.
This week we have again received a large, fine
assortment of the latest New York designs. Black
and all the new shades—Catawba, Raisin, Smoke
Grey, Green, Blue and Garnet, all made with the
very best linings and well tailored, in the new
long coats, mayenage cut, Plaited and Flare
Skirts with the latest styles in Collars, etc. These
Coat Suits would be cheap at $16 to $20, our sale
price is from
$12.00 to $20.00.
A special line of handsome long semi-fitting
black Coats, A handsome black Caracul Coat,
full length, well lined and made by first-class tail-
ors ; regular values $20.00,
Our Price $15.00.
A handsome Kersey Cloth Coat, full length, at
prices that will save dollars for you. Misses’ and
Children’s Coats at the special sale prices.
ROYAL WORCESTER AND BON TON
CORSETS.
Our Corset Department is now complete with the new
Winter models. All the new long models in Royal
Worcester; prices from $1 to $3.
Bon Ton models that will compare in style, workman-
Ship avd quality with any $10 Corset; special from $3 to
A fall live of the celebrated Adjusto Corsets at $3.
We invite every one to inspect all our new Win-
ter Stock. Every department is now filled
with choice selections.
Weare ts for the Butterick Patterns,
ineators, The Fashions.
PRON
LYON & COMPANY,
47-12 Allegheny S¢., Bellefonte, Pa.
Lyon & Co.
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