‘tleman. “But he's a funny one to ‘swear. You ought to hear him, When EE RBIS CL SIR SE UST SANS © 7. RED Bellefonte, Pa., March 25, 1910. GUINEAS AND POUNDS. “Funny thing,” said the writer, who had just received a check for £2 2s. from London, “how the editor over in England paid me in guineas, not in English pounds. In fact, it would be an insult if the editor had simply paid me £2. “They've two kinds of money over there. One kind is straight business money. An even £2 would have meant in effect that 1 had performed a rou- tine job of some kind, such as complil- ing a table of statistics for the editor, | and that 1 was beiug paid for mechan- ical labor. | “But the editor adds an extra shil- | ling to every pound he pays me. This means that I am not supposed to have performed auy labor at all, but to have | created a work of art and submitted | this work of art—otherwise literature | —for art's sake. “My check i= written ‘T'wo guineas,’ and the envelope in which it is sent | me is addressed ‘John Smith, Esq.’ This in effect is a second recognition that I have submitted a plece of liter- ary art. Yet the figures on the check : are ‘£2 2s.’ to prevent errors In book- | keeping. “If I'd been on the staff of the pe- riodical my salary would be paid me | in pounds sterling, for then I'd be supposed to be working for pay and, | according to English ideas, no longer a | gentleman. i “These two kinds of money, gulneas and pounds, show up in many curious ! ways. All professional men are paid | in guineas. If you are running a big | private school you make a charge in guineas for tuition, and parents of your puplis pay you in guineas be- cause you're supposed to be merely engaging in an altruistic, philanthropic project of building brawn and brain for Britain. But you pay the teachers in your school in pounds sterling, for they're supposed to be working for pay, not for love. “If you're a doctor you make your bills for professional! services out in guineas, Barristers are paid in guin- eas. Horse race prizes are given in guinens for all gentlemen's races, “The most curious mixture of all is the clergyman’s pay. This is a queer mixture of commercial and profession- al ideas. The charge of a parish is known as a living and is paid in pounds sterling, but if a wedding or a christening takes place in the parish the clergyman receives a personal fee, | always guineas fnstead of pounds, “Artists ave paid in guineas. The late Jawes MacNeill Whistler, who had : a delightful habit of turning a keen | wit on friends and making enemies ! therehy. was once paid for a work of | art in pounds sterling, a delicate im- | plication that Whistler was a dauber | and a tyro. “I'wo trades ure paid in guineas for | goods purchased, but other trades are | paid in pounds sterling. These trades are the interior decorator and the jew- : eler. The jeweler's goods are suppos- ed to be works of art, and such com- | mercial articles as watch chains and watches are priced in guineas. Cer- tain swell and exclusive London tal- fors, to whom you have to be intro- duced, by the way, charge you in guineas for the coats and trousers they consent to make for you. “Directors of companies were for- merly paid in guineas for their attend. ance. They are wow paid in pounds sterling, but when a pound sterling is in minted gold it isn’t a pound sterling any more, but a sovereign. “The idea is that directors of com- panies are always feed in gold, and as sovereigns only are coined now they are paid in sovereigns. The only ex- ception is the directorate of the Bank of England. The members of the board are paid in golden guineas, part of a small store kept in the bank and dated in the early years of the last century. “A gentleman wagers with his friends in guineas. He buys a hunter or a pony pelo from a friend in guin- eas, but in pounds from a horse trad- er. But if he is buying a work horse from a friend and equal he pays in pounds sterling. “If a gentleman wagers with a book- maker at a race track he posts his bet in pounds. If he tries to break the bank at Monte Carlo he puts up his wagers on the roulette wheel in gold twenty franc pleces and speaks of his winaings or losses in pounds sterling, while he mentions his winnings or fosses at bridge, paid in gold, in guin- eas. “There are hundreds of delicate dis- tinctions in British etiquette in the matter of money. One of the most curious is that of a certain London club where the members receive their change in gold, silver and penny post- nge stamps, neither paper mouey nor copper being given, and gentlemen are not supposed to know any iaoney ex- cept coined gold and silver.'--New York Sun. A Considerate Girl. Madge—He sald you were very punc- tual. Marjorie—Why shouldn't he? TI never kept him waiting more than half an hour in my life.—Lippineott’s. | ' A gooG laugh is sunshine in the house.—Thackeray. Profanity of His Profession. “Who is that s~lentific gent in room 157" asked the scrub lady. “I dunno,” answered the broom gen- he saw a lot of mold on top of his ink he said, ‘B'eillus! just that way.” ~Chicago Tribune, ‘ Designed For Ten Horses, It Took Fifty to Move It. What is said to be the largest plow in the world was made some years ago at Bakersfield, Cal. This plow was the result of the ingenuity of a ranch superintendent who had authori- ty to make improvements, but not to introduce steam plows, The superin- tendent had grown very tired of pre- paring 3,000 acres of land for wheat with ordinary nine or twelve inch plows drawn by two horses. He argued that if two horses could pull a twelve inch plow six horses could pull a plow thirty-six inches wide and that eight horses could pull a piow forty-eight Inches wide. He made the calculations carefully, and, being clever with his pencil, also made drawings and sent for blacksmiths and machinists to construct a plow on his principle. Some simple folk told him that his great plow would not work, but they contented themselves with saying this dogmatically without giving any math- ematical reason therefor. So the su- perintendent went on with his plans. The blacksmiths and machinists fin- ished the plow in due time, The share was made to cut a fifty inch furrow. The top of it reached five feet above the ground to give room to throw the earth. The beam was more than a foot thick, but the machine was con- structed to run between two great wheels, so that it could be turned around easily, and on the axle between these wheels was the seat for the man who wa: to drive the ten horses which were hitched to it. The plow was brought to the great field, the ten horses were attached to it, the handles were raised, the driver mounted his seat, and the team was started, But as soon as the share struck well into the ground the horses stopped short. They were stuck fast. And yet the plow had not gone too deeply into the earth. But it was evi- dent that they could not pull the plow. More horses were brought out, but no* until fifty were attached did the plow move along. Even then it required four men to | hold the handles in order to keep the { plow In the furrow. It was an eco- nomic failure. Then the superintendent, through the intervention of some one who was a better mathematician than he, learn- | During the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell there appeared in one of the stalls (or shops, as we would call them) in the Royal Exchange, London, a masked woman who sold small arti- cies, such as gloves, laces, nechkwear and other goods, called py the Dritons haberdashery. One day the Marquis of Lorenton, who since the defeat of the Cavaliers jhad kept himself away from London, essed that way. The estates of his been forfeited on uceount of the fam- ily's adherence to King Charles 1, and the marqui= was In sad straits for a living. He stopped at the stall of the “masked woman.” as she was univer- sally known, and entered into conver- sation with her, pricing such articles as he saw on her counter. Then, with a sigh, he turned away, saying: “1 would fain buy of your goods, mistress, but I am without means.” “Select what you wish, sir, and pay when Charlie comes ome.” Now, the term “when Charlie comes home” meant in those days “when Charles, eldest son of the beheaded king and legitimate heir to the throne, is recalled to assume his rights as sov- ereisn of England.” “1 see,” sald the marquis, “that you are a royalist. Mayhap you are, like myself, an impoverished noble.” “I am a royalist, but I am simply the masked woman making an honest living. These gloves would, I think, fit you. Will you let me try them on your hand? he marquis permitted her to try the gloves on him, but not with the ex- pectation of buying them. He liked to feel her fingers on his own. “There,” she sald when she had fin ished: “’tis a perfect fit. Take them and pay. as 1 said, ‘when Charlie comes home."" But the marquis stubbornly refused commoner, for the woman had said, “I am simply the masked woman” and he went away. But there was something in the fig- ure, the voice, the carriage of the masked woman that appealed to him in a way he could not account for. Wherever he went the masked woman in fancy went with him. Waking or sleeping, he saw her moving about In her little berth and heard the sweet sounds of her volce. father, the Duke of Ethelstone, had ! to accept credit. especially from a But ‘» marquis thought of her by day . Jreamed of her by night, His estates were restored to him, but he was not salisfied, because he longed for her and knew not where to find her. One evening he drove to a fete given by the king. The young dowager Duchess of Abergild, whese husband ; had fallen in the late war, was pres- . ent and approached the marquis. “Have you still the gloves?’ she ask- ed archly. The marquis recognized her voice as | soon as she spoke. “lI have.” he re- | plied. “but have never worn them. I hold them too precious to be used.” The duchess, having been cut off from her Income during the protecto- . rate, had the choice of emigrating to | France and there being supported by , the French king cr carning her own ; ving. She hed chosen the latter ale | ternative, : Before tle marquis came into the : dukedom he married the masked wo- | The Poor Cobbler Who Found Him- self Upon a Throne. It was in the days of Philip the | Good, duke of Burgundy, that a cob- bler mounted a royal throne. As the duke was traveling one night to Bruges he came upon a man stretched {upon the ground sound asleep and | bade his attendants carry him to the , palace, strip off his rags and place ! him, robed in fine linen, in his own | bed. When the man awoke next morning he was addressed as “your highness” “and astounded to find himself among such rich surroundings. In vain be protested that he was no prince, but a | poor cobbler. They asked bim what clothing be would wear and at last "conducted him, splendidly dressed, to mass in the ducal chapel. Every cere. | mony was observed throughout the day. ‘The cobbler appeared in public in his new role. was received on all ' sides by command of the duke with | deep respect und ended his brief reign | in the palace with a grand supper and ball. When presently he fell asleep he was reclothed in his rags and taken to the spot where he had been found when this practical joke was con- ceived. Waking in dune time. he re- turned home and related to his wife what he took to be his wonderful | feageis She Sore DIRECT FrROM THE FACTORY OUR OXFORDS AND PUMPS and some of the newer con- ceptions for Spring and Sum- mer 1910 are here and ready for your inspection. . .. .. | ed that he should have cubed the ca- pacity of his twelve inch plow every time he doubled the width of it.—Har- per's Weekly. Which Led Him to Express an Opinion on Married Life. A young man from Kansas City was talking to a young woman from the same town whom he had wet by accel | | dent at a matinee in New York. The young woman was married. The youu man was not. “You've heard that we're to have a new theater back bome?’ the woman asked to make conversation. “Oh, of course,” the young man an- swered, “1 get all the news, | get a | letier from Kansas City every day.” The woman began to laugh. “So when you go back howe for that vacation you're going to be married?” she mused. : “low did you know that?’ the man cried. “We both said we wouldn't tell. And now she's" — “You told me yourself a few seconds ago, everything but the date,” she an-: swered. “You see, no matter how fond your brother may be of you or your, uncles or aunts or your megher or fa- ther, none of these wouid send you al letter every day. There's only one! person who writes a letter every day,’ and that's a girl who's engaged to be | married. For the rest of my sentence’ 1 added two and two.” “You're right” the man mused. “Say, a married man must have to play close to the bases. It must be like living with a mind reader.”"—Bos- ton Herald. The Order of the Shell. Employees of the Krupp works can easily be distinguished, even when at- tired in their Sunday best. Every workman on his enrollment is present- ed with a curiously fashioned scarfpin composed of a miniature artillery shell made of platinum and set in silver. After twenty years’ service he re- ceives a second pin modeled on the same lines and mounted in gold. The higher grades of employees, including the engineers and those employed in the counting house. wear their shells in the form of sleeve links. The work- men are very proud of this distinction, which they call the Order of the Shel! | and wear on every possible occasion. | A Strenuous Preacher. Whitefield, one of the founders Methodism, who died in 1770, was a strenuous nreacher. His usual pro- gram was forty hours’ solid speaking each week and this to congregations all, for “aft. his labors, instead of taking rest, he was engaged in offer- ing up prayers and intercessions or in singing hymns, as his manner was, in every house to which he was invited.” insinuating. “Yes,” boasted Slowpay, “I have bought an automobile row, but I will pay you that £ I borrowed six years First and Last Words. “Why do we pay so much attention to the last words of great men?” “Possibly because their first words are all allke.”—Washington Herald. only by taking care of the happiness 11 could give you my custom: but, A - packet, handed them to him. of others.—Saint-Plerre. dream. So it was not long before he again found himself at her counter preten(l- ET ing that he came to look over her Magazines goods, though in reaiity he came to get another glimpse of her. 1 The Century Magazine “What can I sell you this morning?” “The Outlook” says that it is she said. “Indeed, Mistress Masked Woman | ~—T1 know not your name—I am loung- | ing today, #nd 1 like to come here to see you sell your wares. | would that ine which has steadfastly stood alas, I have none to give. The Round. for ail that is best in American life. heads have taken my all.” "Has held fast by the soundest traditions “Mayhap they have spent it for Of literature. psalm books.” 3 “What they have spent it for I know | I American art ‘by educating, popular taste and putting work in the hands of not, but this I know-—it is hard for me, promising artists, and, in season and out who have always had a sufficiency, to | of season. get on with nothing.” Urged upon a people engrossed in busi- “May 1 sell you the gloves today?’ | ness. ] : “Alas, I have no more the where- Rigeteousness and competency in public withal to pay for them than when | Office. was here before.” Justice to authors. The masked woman took up the Wholesome conditions in the crowded Tis the gloves the marquis had tried on the alts of cities. iocaiiondl opportunities for day before and, making them into a | zi]. Can any home in America afford to be without THE CENTURY IN 1910? “Would you give a poor woman pleasure?” she asked softly. | Single copies, $.35, Subscription, $4.00 a year. “I would not rob a poor woman,” he rans replied, drawing back. THE CENTURY CO, “I ask you to permit me to do you | Union Square, 555 New York. this favor.” i There was that in her tone which | appealed to him. He took the packet ' and kissed the hand that gave it. For the Boy or Girl The marquis was seen no more at | You Love the masked woman's stall after that ! for some time. Then one day he drove up in his carriage and pur-! : : which chased the whole stock of the masked | ron, Sa oreat HaPPIES ol oad. of woman. When she congratulated him | Happiness lie to every boy and girl on coming to his own he told her that | in the pages of St. Nicholas. a cousin had died and left him a leg- icholas of When the marquis drove away be | gistcen, JEHAn Lhe ost ator en lie mon fu ke hoc | HR SEE His Jos. vise to oe market woune | St, Nicholas DE | Ne I Ties vue rule of the Puritans the rightful king | Single copies 25c. Yearly Subscriptions, $3.00. Union Square, S58 k New York. The Pennsylvania State College Offers Exceptional Advantages IF YOU WISH TO BECOME A Chemist An Engineer An Electrician A Physician A Scientific Farmer A Journalist Or secure a Training that will fit you well for any honorable position in life. TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. A Teacher A Lawyer The EFF JIN SEPT. Jo. the General have been modi- ERE BEE ERR ET ESE Tis cos i Chm, Co Sg Mesh nd Meg Bene YOUNG WOMEN are admitted to all courses on the same terms as Young Men. 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