Bellefonte, Pa., March 4, 1910. Queer Whistling Language of the Ca- nary Island Natives. In Gomera, oné of the smallest of the Canary islands, the silvando, or whistling language, survives. A cor- respondent writes: “A traveler must land at the little port of San Sebastian and there find a muleteer from the in- terior. With him he must ride up the steep bridle paths that wind through the mountains. When no longer any living thing is within sight and the wilderness is only broken by the crim- son flower of the cactus growing in the clefts of the rock, the muleteer dismounts, sets hiz forefingers togeth- er at a right angle and places them in his mouth. An arrow of piercing sounds shoots across the ravines and up the stony terraces into the fast- nesses of the mountains. A moment's pause and there comes a thin, almost uncanny, answering whistle from far away. the sounds rise and fall, are stacca- toed or drawn out, so they are faith- fully echoed and transmitted by the hills. “Then comes the ghostly reply, and then question and answer follow with- out hesitation or misunderstanding. Perhaps the stranger will ask, ‘What are vou doing there?” Answer: “There is a traveler with me. One of our mules is lame. Can you bring us a fresh one? ‘Yes, 1 can. Do you want anything else? ‘You might bring some milk along if you have any,’ and so on. That the conversation is correctly interpreted is presently con- firmed by the arrival of the mule and the milk, and the distance that sepa- rated the parties to the dialogue turns out to be ahout three miles. “Lon= notes and short notes, rising and falling tones, go to make this mar- velous means of communication. No record is to be found of its origin or history, and it will be a thousand pities if scientific investigation is not made before the silvando is added to the list of dead languages, as assur- edly it will be within the next two or three generations.”—Chicago News. STRANGE COMPANIONS. The “Happy Family” and a Kitten and a Hawk. The first public exhibition of a “hap- py family” in England was given about fifty years ago, when there were shown a monkey, a cat, several rats and three or four pigeons in one cage. The monkey was on excellent terns with the cat so long as puss would allow him to warm himself by cud- dling her; otherwise he would show his vexation by slyly giving her tail a nip with his teeth. The birds perched on the cat's back and pecked at her fur. and the rats were as friendly with their natural enemy as If she were one of their own sort. A lady walking in the Isle of Wizht observed a little kitten curled up on a mossy bank taking a midday nap. As she stopped to stroke it a hawk swooped down and, pouncing upon the kitten, hid it from sight. The lady. fearing for the life of the kitten, {ried to rescue it. but the hawk firmly faced her, stood at bay and re- fused to move. She hastened to » fisherman's cottage and told the in- mates of the impending tragedy. “It's always so,” they said, laughing. “That hawk always comes down if any one goes near the kitten. He has taken to it and stays near at hand to watch whenever it goes to sleep.” The lady. greatly interested. made further inquiry and learned that the kitten's mother had died, after which the nursling was missed for several days. One day the hawk was seen about the cottage picking up seraps of meat and carrying them to the roof of the cottage. “The fisherman climbed up and found the lost kitten nestled in a hole in the thatch and thriving under the care of its strange foster father. It was brought down and restored to the cot- tage, hut the hawk would not resign his charge and was always at hand to rescue the kitten from the caresses of strangers.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. How to Open a New Book. <The best way to n a new book -yithout risk of inj it is to place it «on its back upon a smooth or covered table, let down the fore and then the hind board. hold the leaves in one hand and open nu few of the fore znd after- ward the end leaves until you reach the center of the volume. Do this sev- eral times and you will not break the back of the book. Made It Very Clear. “Hw {do you suppose she manages to kop up appearances on her hus band’s income?” “what is her husband's income?” © «1 don’t know; but, of course. it can't te as big as it woul'l have to be if they could afford to live as they do."—Chi- cago Record-Herald. The New England Spirit. One thing we New Euglanders like about us is our all around superiority to the people of the rest of this great hy glorious country.—Springfield Un An Old Saying Amended. Man—Won't you marry me, then? Bachelor Girl—Certainly not! When is bliss ’tis folly to be wives.—Illustrated Bits. The A man must be excessively stupid well as uncharitable who believes ! is no virtue but on his own side. ~Addison. wa Conversation begins and, as’ Do You Really Love Dogs? Perhaps the final test of anybody's love of dogs is willingness to permit them to make a camping ground of the bed. There Is no other place in the world that suits the dog quite so well. On the bed he is safe from being step- ped upon, he Is out of the way of drafts, he has a commanding position from which to survey what goes on in the world, and, above all, the surface is soft and yielding to his outstretched limbs. No mere man can ever be so comfortable as a dog looks. Some per- sons object to having a dog on the bed at night, and it must be admitted that he lies a little heavily upon one's limbs, but why be so base as to prefer comfort to companionskip? To wake up in the dark night and put your hand on that warm, soft body, to feel the beating of that faithful heart—Iis not this better than undisturbed sloth? The best night's rest 1 ever had was once when a cocker spaniel puppy, who had just recovered from stomach ache (dose one to two soda mints) and was a little frightened by the strange experience, curled up on my shoulder like a fur tippet, gently pushed his cold, soft nose into my neck and there slept sweetly and soundly until morning.—H. C. Mer- win in Atlantic. Absentminded Dyer. Charles Lamb had a friend named George Dyer who was perhaps the most absentminded man on record. +1t was Dyer who, leaving Lamb's Is- lington home at broad noonday, walked straizht into the New river. He was known to take up a coal scut- tle instead of his hat, to walk home with a footman's cockaded hat on and even to leave one of his shoes under the table and get well on his home- ward way before discovering his loss. He called at a friend's one morning, heard that the family was away in the country, left his name in the visitors’ book, and a few hours later called again, asked for the book again and was astonished to see his own freshly written name. Once, when Proctor breakfasted with him, Dyer forgot the tea. The omission being noted. he fiiled the teapot with ginger. Proctor left as soon as he could to get a better breakfast at a coffee tavern, and there Dyer strolled in and asked him how he did. quite unconscious of having seen him earlier. Lawyers’ Wills. A rematkable specimen of a lawyer's invalid will was that of Sir Joseph Jeckyll, master of the rolls, who died in 1738 and bequeathed his fortune after his wife's death to pay off the national debt. “Sir Joseph was a good man and a good lawyer,” was Lord Mansfield's comment, “but his bequest was a very foolish one. He might as well have attempted to stop the middle arch of London bridge with his full bottomed wig.” The testator's patriotic jutentions were therefore treated as proof of mental weakness, and his will was promptly set aside, Among the wany blundering wills that lawyers have made for their clients, if not for themselves, the strangest on record was that of a Dublin gentleman who left all his money to the elder son of his brother and, if he had no elder son. to the second.—London Chronicle. Raindrops. Drops of rain vary in their size per- haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter of an inch in diameter. In parting from the clonds they precipitate their descent till the increasing resistance opposed by the air becomes equal to their weight, when they continue to fall with uniform velocity. This ve- locity is therefore in a certain ratio to the diameter of the drops; hence thunder and other showers in which the drops are large pour down faster than a drizzling rain. A drop of the twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling through the air would, when it had arrived at its uniform velocity, ac- quire a celerity of only eleven and a half feet per second, while one of a quarter of an inch would have a ve- locity of thirty-three and a half feet. A Peacemaker. It is a commonly accepted belief that nothing short of being pried loose will induce a bulldog to give up his grip on another dog or on an intruder, but this is a mistake. A little -household ammonia poured on him as near his nose as circumstances will allow will make him let go immediately. The fumes of ammonia are so overpower- ing that a dog cannot possibly main- tain his grip and his breath at the same time. —Country Life In America. A Word to Parents. Never amuse your children at the ex- pense of other people; never allow your children to ridicule other people. Neglect this advice and the time will assuredly come when these children will amuse themselves with your foi- bles and ridicule your authority.—Ex- change. Which Was the Worse? “When I returned from our poker party last night my wife just looked at me; not a word was spoken.” “My wife looked at me, too, and I don’t believe that a word was unspo- ken.”—Houston Post. Reaching Conclusion. «1 imagine from your speech that you are a taxidermist.” : “What makes you think so?” “Principally because you tell me I am as wise as an ow! and then try to stuff me."—Exchange. Peaceful. Mrs. Frost—Who was it one whose telephouc was out of or der.—Life. i Cheerfulness is one of the surest ie dications of good sense. i soi i rm “Peace, perfect peace?” i Sk wi} — — —— nm it Has ical Drop of Water. Nature offers a free microscope whenever one is wanted. She has been dealing in free optical instru. ments and optical phenomena ever gluce the first dewdrop tormed or the first raindrop fell earthward. Every dewdrop and raindrop und spherical water drop has all the powers and principles of a microscope. To get one of nature's microscopes in opera- tion take up a drop of water between the two points of two sharpened sticks, say matches, and hold the drop over the minute object to be examined. The result will be thit the object will be magnified about three diameters. The supposed invention of the microscope was nothing more than shaping a plece of glass into an imitation of a water drop so as to be easily handled. Spiders hue made suspension bridges for ages. The rough edge of sword grass gave the inventor the idea of the reaper blade for the harvester. The buzzard has been using the aero- plane for fiying a goed many centuries. By tapping ou un end of a long beam the man at the farther end can hear you telegraphing. the sound traveling through the timber. Fishes have been using bladders of wind for balloons, lifting them in water for countless years, Water has been a camera ever giuce the world had sunshine. Help yourself to nature's store of all things man needs, but never say ang. thin; about the invention. Nature in- vented; yon car only arriige and com: bine facts.—St. Louis [epubile. EARLY BALLOONING. Some Odd Ideas That Prevailed In the Eighteenth Century. As far back ns 1844 the American public were led to believe that the Atlantic had Leen crossed in a bal- | loon. On May 28 in thar year the New York Sun published a detailed account of an aerial voyage from Liv- erpool to Charleston, which purported to have been accomplished by “the steering balloon Victoria in a period of seventy-five hours from land to land.” | Five columns were devoted to the de- seription of the journey and to a sci- entific account of the balloon, of which a woodcut was given, and an | air of verisimilitude was added by a list of eight passcnzers, one of the names mentioned being that of Harri son Ainsworth, who was then at the height of his fame. | At the end of the eighteenth century balloons were all the rage. Then, as now, enthusiasts predicted a time near at hand when war would either be an | awful matter of the annihilation of | armies and forts by bombs from above or would cease altogether through the { abolition of frontiers and the fusion of uations. ther. Canals and roads were to vanish and the space occupied by them to be re- stored to agriculture. And ships (if any still existed) when caught in a storm would be grappled by the mast from balloons above and safely con- veyed into port or even carried over mountain ranges..—Chicago News. Self Protection. “You didn’t really need a wig.” “1 was driven to it. Now the bar- ber won't try to sell me any tonics er hair restorer.” —Louisville Courler- Journal. 'rophecy went even fur- Never add the burden of yesterday's trouble to that of tomorrow. The one is past; the other may never come. A Misunderstanding. “The manage:meni of one of the big! opera houses in New York has to pay $2,000 n week for conductors.” “Does it pay the same rate for mo- tormen 7’ —Judge. Clean Living. its Prototype In Every Spher- Words and Feelings. “Drunkenness is folly!” earnestly ex- claimed Bishop Magee in the house of lords on a celebrated occasion, How horrified was the prelate to read in the papers next morning that he had given utterance to the very baccha- nalian sentiment, “Drunkenness Is Jolly” Lord Salisbury was a master phrase- maker, but one of his best points was spoiled when a careless reporter turn- ed his reference to “manacles and Manitoba” into the meaningless “man- acles and men at the bar.” Sir William Harcourt was badly mis- | quoted once. “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!” he exclaimed upon the platform, but a country paper had i: “Great Dinah! What a farce is this!” Lack of knowledge of familiar quo- tations is a prolific source of misre- porting. For instance, a speaker once made use of the well known lines from Milton's “L’Allegro:” But come, thou goddess, fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne. The country reporter deputed to “take him down” was in despair. ile could not make head or tail of this mysterious utterance. But, following the sound as far as possible, he seized his pen and produced the following gem: But come, thou goddess, fair and free, In heaven she crept and froze her knee. The speaker was taken down in | more senses than one.—London An- swers. Don’t Give Up. Among some skaters was a boy so small and so evidently a beginver that his frequent mishaps awakened the pity of a tender hearted If not wise spectator. “Why. sonny, you are getting all bumped up.” she said. “I wouldn't stay on the ice and keep falling down | so; I'd just come off and watch the | others.” | The tears of the last downfall were | still rolling over the rosy cheeks. but the child looked from his adviser to the shining steel on his feet and an- swered, half indignantly: | “1 didn’t get some new skates to give up with; I got "em to learn how with.” Life's hard tasks are never sent for us “to give up with" they are always intended to awaken strength, skill and | courage in learning how to master them.—Selected. The Century Magazine “The Outlook” says that it is A magazine which has steadtastly stood for all that is best in American life. Has held fast by the soundest traditions literature. den matesially 3u the development taste and putting work in the hands of promising artists, and, in season and out of season. Urged upon a people engrossed in busi- ness. Rigeteousness and competency in public Justice to authors. Wholesome conditions in the crowded parts of cities. ar larger educational opportunities for Can any home in America afford to be without : THE CENTURY IN 1910? Single copies, $.35, Subscription, $1.00 a year. THE CENTURY CO, For the Boy or Girl You Love happiness which can of James—A bath bun and two sponge sakes, please. Waitress—Two sponges | and a bath for this gentleman, please! —London Opinion. | From swearing men easily slide te perjury.—Hierocles. i Forgetful. Mistress—Did you have company last | night. Mary? Mary—Only my Aunt Maria, mum. Mistress—When you see | her again will you teil her she left her tobacco pouch on the piano ?—Illus- | trated Bits. 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This week he is taking the Ladies SHOES off in the same way and reducing his $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Lace Shoes to $1.98. Thing of it, $4.00 Shoes Reduced to $1.98. THIS WEEK ONLY Ladies. Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA. LYON & CO. NEW COAT SUITS We have just received a large assort- ment of Spring Coat Suits in black and colors, for Ladies and Misses; all new models. Paices the lowest. New Spring opening of Dress Silks, Satin Foulards, - Messalines, Figured Pongees, Oyama Silks, from 40c. per yard up. All the new colors. The largest assortment of fine Dress Ginghams in plaids, check, stripe and plain, frow 8 cents up, A fine assortment of new Wool Fabrics for Coat Suits and one-piece Dresses. Voiles in all colors and black. Linen in all the new colors in plain and stripe. Dress Trimmings.—Everything that is new in Dress Trimmings, all overs to match. Black, white, gold and all the new shades. Our laces and Embroideries are the finest we ever had. Insertions and Edges in matched sets. : See our new Ruchings and Neckwear. Carpets and Matting, Oil Cloth, Linoleums, Lace Curtains, Curtain Nets and Draperies. We do not have the space to tell you of all the new things we have, but come in and see for yourselves. Our prices the lowest, qualities the best. LYON & COMPANY, Allegheny St. 47-12 Bellefonte, Pa. Hi i |
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