Bema Wad,
The Stuart Penny.
A pamphlet published in 1677, enti
tiled “The Worth of a Penny; or, A
Caution to Keep Money, With the
Causes of the Scarcity and Misery of
the Want Thereof In These Hard and
Merciless Times,” contains a list of
articles obtainable for a penny in the
days of Charles Il. These include “a
dish of coffee to quicken your stom-
ach and refresh your spirits,” “a fair
cucumber” and “portions of such com-
modities as nuts. vinegar, grapes, cake,
onions and oatmeal” The catalogue
of pennyworths obtainable at an
apothecary’s is a lengthy one and in-
cludes “lettuce to make you sleep.
mithridate to make you sweat and ani-
seed. which may save your life in a
fainting or swound.”
This in the way of recreation “for a
penny you may see any monster, jack-
anapes or those roaring boyes, the
lyons; you may hear a most eloquent
oration upon our English kings and
queens if you listen to him who keeps
monuments at Westminster; you may
have all the news in England and
other countries of murders, floods,
witches, fires, tempests and what not
in the weekly newsbooks.”— London
Scraps.
The Mahogany Tree.
There is no such thing as a forest
of mahogany. The mahogany tree
lives by and for itself alone. It stands
solitary of its species surrounded by
the smaller trees and dense under-
growth of the tropical forest, rearing
its head above its neighbors. Two
trees to the acre is a liberal estimate
for mahogany “finds.” More frequent.
ly perhaps only one tree will be found
over a larger streteh of territory. True
mahogany is the only species of the
Swietenia mahogani, the name Swie-
tenia having been given to it in honor
of the celebrated Baron von Swieten,
physician to Maria Theresa, It is dis-
tinctly a native of tropical America
and frequently towers to a height of
100 feet, the trunk being often twelve
feet in diameter, It is of exceedingly
slow growth, and the time of its ar-
riving at maturity is probably not less
than 200 years. Occasionally small
specimens have been found in south-
ern Florida,
British Julius Caesars.
Julius Caesar, who on one of the
closing days of August in 55 B. C.
landed on the Kentish coast, has had
many British namesakes, including a
great cricketer, but the best known is
Julius Caesar, master of the rolls un-
der James 1., about whom Lord Clar-
endon in the first volume of his his-
tory tells the amusing story. “Remem-
ber Caesar.” The unpopular Earl of
Portland sat up all night in a barri-
caded house with his friends and re-
tainers armed to the teeth because he
found in his pocket a slip of paper
bidding him “Remember Caesar,”
which really had reference not to the
assassination of the Roman statesman,
but to some prefermeat promised to a
son of Sir Julius Caesar. The tomb
of Sir Julius Caesar, with a quaint
epitaph in legal phraseology, is among
the many curious monuments of St.
Helen's, Bishopsgute.—London Family
Herald.
Parent and Prodigal.
In a Hongkong paper a short time
ago there appeared a paragraph recit-
fing that a wealthy young Chinese
whose mother controlled a large busi-
ness in Canton bad been spending the
money of the tirw too lavishly, the at-
traction of motorcars and other veli-
cles of extravagance being too power-
ful for him. After various eudeavors
to control him the mother at length
prepared chains and fetters and bad
him locked up. He, however, escaped,
and the irate mother aunounced her
intention to exercise her maternal
rights on his return by cutting the
tendons of his ankles and thus crip-
pling him. The account proceeded to
say that this treatment is often re-
sorted to by irate parents with prodi-
gal sons.—From “China,” by Morti-
mer Menpes and Sir Henry A. Blake.
Turtles of the Amazon.
The fresh water turtle of the Ama-
zon grows to a great size, especially on
the upper river, where full grown ones
three feet in length, two in width and
weighing 200 pounds ure often seen.
Every house has its little pond or cor-
ral to hold a stock of these animals
through the season of dearth, the wet
months. Those who have Indians in
their employ send them out for a
month when the waters are low to se-
lect a stock; others purchase their sup-
ply.
Knew of One.
“Suggestion? H'mp: Did you ever
hear of a real cure effected by ‘sugges-
tion?”
“l personally knew of one. I once
suggested to a young fellow that if he
didu’'t want to have a big dog chasing
him off the premises he'd better quit
coming to my house, and it cured him
of the habit.” —Chicago Tribune,
Something Left.
Brown (at the club)—Yes, by Jove.
there's very little you can teach me.
I've been everywhere, done everything.
seen everything. The Scotch Member
—Young man, did ye ever have D, T.'s?
Brown—D. T.'s! Great Scott. no! The
Scotch Member — Then ye've seen
nowt.—Sketch.
Sarcastic.
“1 can recommend this Morse, sir,”
sald a dealer, “as a strong. sound ani-
mal.”
“It must be,” agreed the customer,
“to have attained its present age!”
Praise For His Verses Which the Mas-
ter Had Not Read.
A Paris contemporary tells a story
of Vietor Hugo and a young unknown
poet. The poet, hailing from the prov
inces, sent to the author of “Notre
Dame de Paris” a copy of his work.
which he bad just published in the
form of a book of poems. Hugo re-
plied in most sympathetic terms, aud
the young man was delighted with the
fetter, as well he might have been.
His joy. bowever, was but short
lived, for a day or two later his serv.
ant annouuced that the package cou
taining the volume of poems bad cou
back through the post unopened. The
package bore the legend, “Refuse pur
le destinataire—alfranchissement iu:
suflisant” (refused by the addressee on
account of insutlicient postage).
Hugo's letter was hyperbolic and iu
these terms: “Your work bas given ww
a proud pleasure, under the impression
of which | hasten to congratulate you
Your fame is young and radiant; miue
is declining. It is the salutation of the
night which departs at the rising of
the dawn. You are shining, and 1 am
dying. You emerge from oblivion; |
return there.
“The heart either grows hard or
breaks forth. Your sentiments bave
come forth, and you have written so
norous and superb poetry which conse
crates you as a poet as well as affirw-
ing you as man. You are then ‘deux
fois mon frere’ (twice my brother).
Accept my admiration as great as my
esteem.”
SEAWEED.
Several Varieties Are Valuable For
Food Purposes.
Seaweed i* not much to look at, but |
seaweed does not depend so much upon
beauty as upon more substantial merit
to make itself worthy of attention.
Various species of it are used in munu
factures, and several varieties are edi
ble, the most important of the latter
being Irish or carrageen moss, used in
the preparation of jellies—blancmanye.
for instance—dulse or dillesk, very
highly thought of by Scotland, partic
ularly when roasted by wrapping about
hot tongs, and kelp or tangle.
Irish moss and some other species.
particularly eel grass and fat stalk rock
weed, have been found valuable as
cattle food. especially when boiled 10
destroy the rank taste and mised with
meal. The eel grass and rock weed
compare favorably with hay as regard«
the most important .coustituent—pro
tein—containing 6.03 and 8.21 per cent
respectively. They are deficient in fin
but contin a large amount of ash.
The great bulk of the seaweed gath
ered, however, is used as a fertilizer,
and the average seaweed contains
large quantities of all the essential fer.
tilizing elements. Allowing 10 cents a
pound for nitrogen, 2 cents a pound
for phosphoric acid and 4 cents a
pound for potash—and these are as
low prices as it is possible to procure
those materials in any form—a ton of
seaweed coninining 80 per cent water
is worth as a fertilizer $1.42 a ton -
New York Times.
An Ancient Mountain Race.
The most ancient people still living
in the mountains of India are the
Todas. Long before the arrival of the
other tribes of the region the Todas
were the kings of this country, which
they held in common without strife or
treachery to one another. ‘I'he Todns
are a fine race, tall, well proportioned
and with regular features. ‘Their com:
plexion is of a light brown, and their
eyes are bright and intelligent. The
men wear a linen or cotton garment
that reminds a Kuropean of the Rowan
toga. Their bearing is proud and diz
unified; their countenances are pleasing:
their fine straight hair is regularly cut
and well kept. ‘Their superior appear:
auce, the mystery that surrounds them
and the obscurity of their origin bave
caused certain students of ethnology
to suppose that the Todas are descend-
ed from the soldiers of Darius or Alex-
ander, the ancient conquerors of Indin
Deaf Guests at Hotels.
“To waken a deaf person who wishes
to be called at a certain time in the
merning is about the hardest proposi-
tion a hotel clerk runs up against.”
said a member of that fraternity. '“l'o
ring the telephone is useless, because
the man can't hear. Knocking for tie
same reason is futile. Now and then
a guest who has lost his hearing sug-
gests that he leave his door open, so
we can walk right in and shake him.
but there are so many chances of
somebody less guileless than ourselves
walking in ahead of us that we cau't
consent to that simple expedient. It
seems to me that the man who can
patent a device for waking the deaf i=
sure of fame and fortune, not to meu
tion the gratitude of the brotherbou:i
of hotel clerks.”—New York Globe.
The Other Side.
Hank Stubbs—i fixed one uv them
air agent fellers today. Bige Miller—
How s0? Hank Stubbs—Waal, he
come speakin’ up to my frout door au
ast me ef the lady uv the house wuz
in, an’ | said po, but the gentleman
uv the barn an’ hoss stables is.— Bos
ton Herald.
The Caddie’s Sneer.
QGolfer—The day 1 get round thes
links in under a hundred I'll give you
a shilling, Sandy! Juvenile Caddie
Hoo will I want it when 'in drawin
me auld age pension ?—London Punch
His Vowels.
Ethei—Have you noticed how Lord
Blinker drops his aspirates? Fred
It's nothing to the way he drops his
vowels; I've got more than a dozen of
his 1 O U's myseif.— London Scraps.
HUGO AND THE YOUNG POET. |
New Postuiate In Euclid,
From the New York Evening Post,
The committer of professors that has set
ons to reform Fuclid’s geometry might be.
gio by including the postulate that a
straight line between two terms in she
White House leads through East Africa.
~Do you know we bave the old style
Sugar syrups, pure goods at 40 cents and
60 cents per gallon, Sechler & Co.
——Do yon know where to get your
garden seeds in packages or by measure
Sechler & Co.
~——We are apt to suspect e who
always agree with us and to dislike them
if they don’t.
—Do you know where to get the finest
canned goods and dried froits, Sechler &
Co.
—*''For unto you is born this day in
the city of David a Saviour, which is Chriss
the Lord.” —Bible.
—— Advertise in the WATCHMAN.
There are some people who think that
fresh air and oat door exercise will keeps
man in perfect health, Yet a trip through a
farming country will discover any vumber
of farmers soffering with stomach trouble,
It’s the usaoal story : Too much work, too
little rest, and nusvitable dies. Whenever
the stomach and other organs of digestion
and notrition become diseased, the whole
body i= menaced, through the consequent
Inck of nutrition avd the corruption of the
blood supply. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery cures ‘‘stomach trouble,” renews
the assimilative powers, purifies the blood,
nourishes the nerves, gives vitality to
every organ of the body.
——Do you know that you can get the
finest oranges, banannas and grape fruit,
and pine apples, Sechler & Co.
—
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BEFORE REMEDY WAS FOUND,
Miss Minerva Remioger, Upper Bern,
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dealer a | r profit.
Get Hood's Sarsaparilla to-day in the
usual liquid form or in the chocolate
tablets known as Sarsatabs, 100 doses
’ $1. 54 40
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Children Cry for Children Cry for NON C0 Naw York
Fletcher's Castoria. Fletcher's Castoria. Brau Oficd fu ¥ 3 Wannoglch. 8
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Faubles Clothing Store.
Men’s and Boys’ Furnishing Goods.
You save nothin buyin , thn
or gristly pli Tase ise
LARGEST, FATTEST, CATTLA,
and su my customers with tne fresh.
TR Jest blood and muscle mak.
ing Steaks and Roasts. My are
no higher than poorer meats are else:
where.
I always have
we DRESSED POULTRY cme
Guine in season, and any kind» of good
Travelers Guide
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Condensed Time Table effective June 17, 1908
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Ger Superintendent.
BELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAIL.
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