i # g i E Ls a S| Sw ——————_ Belleioute, Pa, March =, 1910. One Man Whe Thought Twenty Years Was Just a Starter. “There's romance for you." said lir- tle Binks, putting aside his morning paper. “This paper has a story of a college professor who met a beautiful girl twenty yaars ago, fell in love with her at first sight and then lost sight of her altogether. Now, after waiting for twenty years, he is rewarded by iead- ing her to the altar as his bride. Just think of it. waiting twenty years for a wife!” “What of it?’ asked the genial phi losopher. “There's nothing extraor dinary about that. [I've waited thirty- five years for mine.” “You? Waited thirty-five years? Why, 1 thought you'd been married that long!” said little Binks. “I have,” said the genial phHozopher. “That's how | know how long I've waited. [I've waited for her to get her gloves on about three years. I've wait. ed for her to change her hat about four years. I've waited while she said just one last word to the cook for at least five years, I've waited upstairs, I've waited downstairs. I've waited at church, I've waited at the theater, and I have waited in cabs, omnibuses, tax- jes, motorcars and the Lord knows what else besides. Fact is. Binksy, I've waited so long, so often and so regularly that between you and me that little college professor of yours, with only one wait of twenty years, strikes me as a miserable little piker.” —Harper's Weekly. The Word “Woebegone.” The word *“woebegoue™ is an inter- esting survival of the far past. “Be- gone” here represents the past partici ple of the Anglo-Saxun verb “began,” to go around about. « word which bas otherwise entirely disappeared from our vocabulary. but which has its anal ogies in such verbs as “beset” and “be- gird,” in which the prefix “be” repre- sents the modern preposition “by.” al woebegon countenance is thus that of a man compassed about with woe, though perhaps it is most generally used in a somewhat slighting manner to imply tht the appearance of grief! is greater than the circumstances war rant. Thus it bas partially undergone the same process of degeneration which has made “maudlin tears” origina! tears of penitence from Mary Magdalene — bear a contemptuous meaning.— London” Standard The Admirable Korean. With all his languor, the Korean is a particularly agreeable person. He is the polished gentleman in the setting of the savage. He is one of nature's cheerful spirits—a Mark Tapley who goes whistling through life despite the multiplication of his misfortunes. He is the victim of his own good nature and is content to sit unconcernedly on his boundary fence and witness the robbery of his estates. It is a pleas- ure to visit Korea if only to meet the! Korean himself, says the Japan Week- ly Chronicle, for he is the happy-go- lucky, good tempered simpleton who unconsciously contributes to the pieas- ure of others. Vanished Mountains. It has been observed that in the neighborhood of great ranges of moun: tains the force of gravity is slighter than elsewhere, and the explanation is that the earth's crust is less dense be- neath the places where it has been heaved up Assuming this to be a general law. one authority points out that it is possible to discover where ancient mountains now worn away and leveled by the action of the ele ments once existed. because the den- sity of the underlying rocks has not changed. France, it is thought, pos- sessed one of these vanished ranges. running along the parallel of Bor- deaux, for on that line there is a less- ening of the force of gravity. A simi- lar phenomenon occurs on the plains of southern Russia. -Harper's Weekly. Unconscious Self Criticism. Mr. X.. the subeditor. was asked to write an article on superstition and fmbecility. When the article was printed the opening sentence was found to be as follows: “That imbecility is not on the wane perusal of the following lines will amply demonstrate.”—Paris Fi- garc. ’ No Encouragement. The family had stood the long strain of Uncle Hobart's illness well, but the peculiarities of the physician chosen by Uncle Hobart himself had been, to say the least, trying. “Do you really think he will recover, Dr. Shaw?’ ask- ed the oldest sister of the invalid, who had borne with his vagaries patiently for years. “I know how you feel, with Thanks. giving coming on, and all,” said the doctor, peering at her from under his shaggy eyebrows, “but it's too soon to tell. He may get well, and then again he may not. I can't encourage you yet either way.”—Youth’s Companion. A Model. “Oh, no,” declared the younger one, “my husband never goes to clubs or any other places of amusement unless he can take me with him.” “Dear me! What a splendid man! How long have you been married?” “It'll be seven weeks next Tuesday.” ~Chicago Record-Herald. A Reasonable Preference. First Fair Invalid—Which kind ot doctor do you prefer, the allopathic or the homeopathic? Second Fair Inva- 1id—1 prefer the sympathetic.—Flie- The Explorers Forced Him to Lead Them to Water. A party of explorers, four in num- ber, were traveling across the sandy plains of Western Australia. They had been struggling on for weeks and were now greatly in need of water. Their two camels bad not had any water to drink for nearly a fortnight. After a time they came to a deserted camp hidden among some trees. While they were looking at the still smoldering campfires they were star- tled by some dreadful yells, and a shower of spears, thrown by a num- ber of black savages, came flying about them. This made the travelers so angry that they rushed after the blacks, who fled in all directions.” After a stern chase they found one of the savages up a tree. As he would yot come down, one of the travelers climbed the tree after him. Presently a branch of the tree gave way, and they both came tumbling down, but without hurting themselves much. The travelers asked the black man where they could find some water, but he would not say. Then they tried to get friendly with him and gave him some food. But, although he enjoyed the food, he would not tell them where water was to be found. Then one of them had an idea. Fate of the Resolution Instructing Him | How to Vote. Adlai Stevenson in “Something of Men I Have Known,” commenting on to express the idolatry of the Whigs Hood's Sarsapariiia Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine—Take it This Spring Thoroughly cleanses the blood, cures all eruptions, improves the appetite, relieves that tired feeling. Get it today, in usual liquid form or tablets called;Sarsatabs. his star set it was feit to be the siy- ' mal for the dissolution of the great, party of which he was the founder. , In words worthy to be recalled, “when | the tidings came like vvailing over the state that Harry Percy's spur was cold the chivalrous felt somehow the world had grown commonplace.” The following incident along the line indicated may be considered charac- teristic. While Mr. Clay was a sena- tor a resolution, in accordance with a some time custom, was introduced into the Kentucky house of represent. atives instructing the senators from that state to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in congress. The resolution -vas in the act of passing 55-12 He took some tinned meat, mixed into it a handful of salt and gave it to the hungry savage. The black soon Groceries. cleared it up and scemed to enjoy it, much to the amusement of the travel ers. Then they sat down and waited. In about an hour the savage began to get fidgety and wanted to leave them, but they would not let him go. Presently he began to wail: “Wa- Sechler & Company ter! Water!” Jumping up, he ran to the denses* part of the scrub, followed by the white men. Clearing away some twigs, he re- vealed a hidden pool of clear water That is the way the spring was dis- covered. by marking up the rice « te have found a Jaw at an Ampere Dabbled In Mathematics at buy the the Age of Three. Ampere, who left his name to the science of electricity, was a child gen. fus. At the age of three he had taught aimself to count with the aid of peb- bles and had found out for himself good many of the theories of arith- metic. At this age he became very ill and was for three days denied food. At the end of the fast he was given a biscuit, but instead of eating it he 18 cent grade. 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When he was ten or twelve years old he went to a library Bush House Block, Sechler & ‘Company, 55-1 - Bellefonte Pa., to ask for the works of a certain au- thor. The librarian told him in amuse- ment that the books were in Latin. The boy went home chagrined, for he did not know Latin, being a sickly child and held back from books as far as possible, but after six weeks he ap peared again and told the librarian he had learned to read the books now. Ampere is one of the few child prod- igies who seems to have been sickly. He had fits from time to time, while most child wonders appear to have been physically normal in every re speci. —Exchange. — Freaks of Language. A peculiar kind of blundering known as “folk etymology” is responsible for some of the queerest freaks of lan- guage. An easy example will make this clear. Our American word *‘car- ryall” for a kind of vehicle is not a compound of “carry” and “all,” but a slight distortion of the French “ecarti- ole,” a1 diminutive car. The change was made in obedience to the uni- versal tendency to assimilate the un- known to the known, to make words mean something by associating them with others which they resemble in sound. Often there is no etymological relation between the words assoclated, as when sparrowgrass is made out of asparagus. This particular corruption was once in such good colloquial use that Walker, the lexicographer, wrote, “Sparrowgrass is so general that as- paragus has an air of stiffness and pedantry.” al 2 ’ ; ns nny rob sb JL 4 His Critic. What astonishes the visiting Briton most is the manner in which every kind of immigrant to the United States adapts himself to the prevailing: ideas about Englishmen. In the course of conversation with the noble Italian who condescends to brighten shoes the visitor informed the bootblack that he was an Engilishman—and English men had a great respect for Italians and had entertained Garibaldi in grand style. “Inglees! Ha, ha! Inglees!” said Diego in soft, musical tones. “Ha! They spic no good. Dey droppa da hiatch!”—Exchange. The Aged and Infirm One. The Haldane family has always been noted in England for its famous walk- ers, and the present head of the fam- ily tells this story of one of his an- bn cestors: | This old gentleman, having been ie prayed for by a clergyman as “thine \§ aged and infirm servant,” immediate- | SN§fe ly suggested a little walk with his bY surprised clerical friend. The latter | Qs consented, and the “aged and infirm" Mr. Haldane took him for such a tre- mendously long walk that when the clergyman returned, utterly exhausted, he fell asleep and could only with dif- ficulty be awakened to conduct a re. ligious service.—London M. A. P. Clothing. (mie -t ee COME without opposition when a hitherto | silent member from one of the moun. tain counties. springing to his feet. | exclaimed, “Mr. Speaker, am i derstaiad that this legislature taking to tell Henry Clay vote?’ The speaker answered such was the purport of the resolution. At which the member from the moun- tains, throwing up his arms, exclaim- i ed, “Great heaven!” and sank into his | seat. It is needless to add that the : resolution was immediately rejected | by unanimous vote. am 1 is i The Better Part. i Mr. McNabber. says the London | Mail, had just told his pastor that he: was planning a trip to the Holy Land. “And whiles I'm there,” he contin- aed, “I'll read the Ten Commandments | aloud frae the top o' Mount Sinal.” ! “MeNabber,” replied the minister gravely. “tak my advice. Bide at bame an’ keep them.” i Helping Him On. The Man—No: I don't suppose that I | shall ever marry. 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