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Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1910.
EPOCHS.
Oh, drink to the infant blossom
That laughs in the lap of Spring—
To the newborn rose,
Ere a petal knows
The touch of an unclean thing!
For love is like as a flower,
And life as an angel song
In the rifting gray
Of what vernal day
When hope in the heart is strong.
A toast to the sun-glad Summer,
That trips to a zephyr's tune—
To the fair, young lay
Of the yesterday,
Full-blown on the breast of June!
A brimming cup to the season
Of infinite afterglows,
When the stress of strife
Is apart from life,
And love is a thornless rose!
A health to the stirruped Autumn,
Awaiting to hear the call
Of the plaietive note
That a feathered throat
Shall trill when the last leaves fall!
1 left my glass to the crimson,
And sip its depth to the gold,
For there's something grand
In a love life-spanned,
That mellows as Time grows old.
And here's to the chill December,
Its winds and its tombs of snow—
To the one who weeps
Where a still heart sleeps,
To the lone soul left to woe!
There's untold sweet in the budding;
There's more in the full-blown rose,
But the love I toast
Of all lovethe most, :
Lives even beyond life's close.
By Ralph M. Thomson.
A NEW WAY OF WOOING.
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-painted fishing-fleet, owned
ET five miles away. At -
penkerk you may walk an hour round
the ramparts built by the dead; but in
five minutes you may compass the homes
of the living. At ap. all the
clocks were regulated three hundred
year ago, and the only orphan that the
town is turned sixty-nine. At
Klom rk, when I was last there, the
folk numbered 401; there may
by now. But how
ever rapidly the place may be said to
grow, there is one event in its history
which will not be forgotten while the
burghers have tongues totalk: and that
ie the ineffable offense of Jaap van Hoorn
the Younger, which threatened to sub-
vert the whole political, social, and moral
order of the town. It proves beyond a
doubt that unbridled intellect is as peril-
ous toa community as a run-away mule.
Now, for eighteen vears or thereabouts
this Jaap, though much admired as the
burgomaster’s son, did nothing out of the
way. He even through half his
university course at Leyden without at-
tracting the attention of the town; but in
the third suumer he came home and fell
in love with Pietje Klein. This was the
root of the black business.
At first, indeed, Jaap's intellect had
very little to do with the matter. Pietje
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was only a pretty peasant of substantial | spice
means but no pedigree at all, who lived
with her family at the Farm-of-the-Little
St. Sohn, Vrouwe'polder-way; but Jaap
lost his head so completely that he re-
fused to go back to Leyden, and took a
humble post on the ship of the Layer-
down of Buoys and Inspector of
in the Katschegaat rather
Presumably Pietje was not so anxious.
She held him off and on for seven years.
For sven long drawn years he tram
the dike, six miles thi and six miles
parental abuse he had a bad time of it.
ut, I, am told on the best authority, he
never missed a Sunday afternoon; and
likewise that all that while, his intellect
being in abeyance, he never came to the
int.
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But he showed a streak of greatness,
none the less, for when Pietje scoffed at
earrings
of gold, and a small, square cap on his
long hair, which was in a semi-
The first time he appeared in this cos-
tume, the was at dinner.
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an |} YJ can vl) understand that Pietje | shocked ears of
polder put together.”
“Certainly, however,”
polder, “if you come to a question of good
looks—"
said Vrouwe'- reserve force of six a
was appointed deputy policeman, with a
e citizens.
The deur) were closed inst the ham-
mering pul was
to an anteroom, while the question wheth-
er the prison was safe was debated.
Now, the i of the problem
might go on forever. But all the while a roof. It was begun at the time of the
ot and finally
His spirit swung so high in
the full tide of summer that he rose and tern. Another delay followed, with in-'
regardless of family opin-
“Now,” said he, folding his arms, “I 'm the while, he havi
4 “But—
farmers’
in his brain, that undoubtedly such
e things,” said he quietly, “I have
done for you. What is it more that you
want?”
She would not answer directly, but
pouted: “] like a man who makes a stir
in the world.”
He flipped a contem thumb to-
Long
ward the book. “Like him? What did he | mis and the coffee-houses were dark, | They
Jaap and the sentry were still making a sal
in its own second republic in France by abu
' solemn movements of the committee, who | mended dikeas a man who had
he interrupted. “But bore themselves as men used to responsi- | the object of his life; so came under
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ripe. ed, it progressed
place, he observed that his ten feet square by fifteen feet high, and
EE Ie ea ho TT Dal It | Fool!”"—so ran her vocab ,
had not been used within the memory of
t generation.
ther, then, the burgomaster, specta-
despatched a committee of two with alan-
quiry for the prison key. It appeared | as the beet-root claret at home,—*1 shall | are endowed with
used the place re-
removed You have
they could
carryings-on of |
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street again, the jailer said, with tears of
joy in his :
. anxiety of my life.”
| Scarcely outside, Jaap was encountered
i by a correspondent the “Dummburg
Instead of returning by the road to
mas- | Klompenkerk, he wentround by the fields metion of portions of their bodies.
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' His
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was not cold. i
Ninny! Stupid! Dummy!
. “Did I or did I not?” he i
She stopped in her speech, looked at
him out of the corner of her eyes, and ble
long before the cled, judicial, for the time being soulless, | milked hard. :
“Am I talked about enough?” he asked. |
“Quite enough,”—her voice was as acid
| more.” i
grinned ' been pretended
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
I hold it true, whate'er befall,
1 feel it when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Just at present white neckwear,
is mak-
though the intelligence of | always smart and in good taste,
is of a similar order to I | ayS Sas aan 30 a pieces with
different order.
holds to the opinion that insects are de-
void of hearing, although certain savants
t this structure lacked 'Daagblatt,” and his fame was established. = claim that they call their fellows and
answer their call by a peculiar ‘rasping
like the spine of the human being in any
respect. Insects have no sense of smell
nor any sense of taste, although it has
that their sense of taste
lies in the gullet, and that flies are capa-
of discerning differences in food pro-
ducts by the differing odors. The anten-
nz or insects serve as very weak organs
of feeling. On the other hand, insects
very acute organs of
t the prisoner had it in his pocket all | see to it that you are talked about no | which man knows Sg a the
nement—in fish-bas-
The question now is, bility. Word passed that the prisoner in
the anteroom was chewing licorice-root.
condition, considering; but that they also
advised the placing of a sentry. To this |
office was appointed the assistant chief of
the fire department, who, being informed
of the second honor thrust upon him that
night, drew his knees as near together as
would and indulged widely in
Fos A ark op ius
on. ve
read them. Prisoner, questioned as to the
motive of act, smiled; informed as to
state of policeman’s nose and skull,
chuckled; asked whether he bore this of-
ficial a grudge, laughed aloud; asked
whether
shook his head: informed that he would
| At this point, I take it, he kissed her.
had waited seven years!
He walked the six miles of the newly |
achieved |
the
| shadow of his own home, and confronted
| the paternal wrath of the burgomaster. |
Presently the committee returned and: “I should like to know,” thundered means of protecting and
I RE imei fr prison was in fair | Jaap the Elder, “the meaning of all this existence to
: law-breaking in Klompenker-r-rek!” .
“It was all in the wooing of Pietje
| Klein," said Jaap the Younger, meekly. '
| =—By Edith Rickert, in the Century Maga- |
| Zine. {
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Locusts as Food.
| In the East, as elsewhere, since
' Biblical days of John's “loccsts and
| ey,” locusts-have been deemed more or |
| less edible. In Palestine to this day they
are considered a luxury. The Jews fry
them in sesame oil, sesame being the grain
of which mention is made in the story of |
his deed of violence, | “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” a fact that many human actions are
favorite tale in the Arabian Nights enter-
broidering dowry linen. | be punished with the full rigor of the law, tainments,
And he also perceived, by this new light behaved in a most unseemly manner.
In Arabia Petrea locusts are dried in
| flour for baking; and in Central Africa
human body possesses of the na-
ture of the organs of the antennz, nor is
there anything in man resembling any-
thing in the structure of the insect. Such
sense of sight as certain savants have at-
tributed to insects is extremely short.
The life of the insect differs essentially
from the life of man, and the insects
ing maintaining its
is peculiar to the insect race.
In man most feelings and motives of
activity result from the impulses of self-
preservation. The insect no such in-
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ty of i but
when it makes
rely
instinctive, although they are attributed
to the action of the will. A man raises
his hand instinctively to parry a blow; in-
read- | Here the scribe’s pen granted no further | the sun and then ground into a sort of | stinct sends the hand to an itching or
ing would have put notions into her head. detail.
aching point. The action of a man who
In conclusion, the council could make certain tribes employ locusts for making | turns his head when he hears a sound is
nothing of the accused, so marched him
away with the deputy policeman, closely
a
ttended by the valiant six, and as near |
as might be by the crowd that thronged
the market-place.
after the booths of the Ker-
night of it. J n by shouting ri-
ap keyhole into the
assistant chief, who
could not stop him or move away, or
“Potdoorie!” said Jaap, with an oath | even, by the law of the town, to which
that loses all flavor in English, “it is dif-
ficult to make a stir in Klompenkerk, but
ent anger, these qualities
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the prisoner was now indifferent, join in | the
A heavy shower came on, |i
the chorus.
the battered policeman’s wife, w
Now the insulted and weary deputy
seemed some- | policeman avoided leaning against the
how strangely attractive. And, alas! the wall as long as nature permitted; but
Kermis began the following week, and he when the rain became unendurable, he |
had gone away without a word of invi-
tation. It would be dull work trapesing
between two brothers. Pietje felt
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sought sheitus by lifting a neighbor's cel-
lar , whence he was dragged igno-
miniously the next morning, fast asleep,
herself beginning to slip along the road i and informed that his prisomer had es-
tan
to repentance. ca
Jaap walked away briskly until he had | Peden out presently that Jaap, being
the curve of the dike; then he
sat down on a post and read “Junker
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homeward, over tiles and garden walls;
This gentleman gave him the clue. and in due course was arrested again,
To attract his lady's favor, itseemed nec- snoring in his own bed.
essary only to break a few laws. But how?
All the way home he meditated upon . kerker—I will go
ways and means. First, he thought of
calling out the fire department u a
none to spare, and no
than Dummburg. Upon his arri
he hunted out a copy of the statute-book
of which his father was, as chief -
tor, justly proud, and read up the thi
@ Than Way 0; Hay Gi do without -
ing a law in Klompenke:
ow in Klompenkerk
before
with the matter, found a
choice of things he
might not sit on a neighbor's gate or cel-
lar-door; he might not let grass grow in
front of his house (if he had one,) or
even trust the weeding-process to
teeth of his cow or goat grazing
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ight have considered that
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thing through with
| kerk possessed. It was
the wonder is | the man took him free of charge in order
that any law is intact. Jaap, who never ' to have a share in his A i
troubled to acquaint himself | is that they attracted quite as much at-
tention as if the equipage of royalty had
t not do. He passed.
Half-way
road under
; but Jaap was | stands
| athick Drown soup. i eae |
| In Madagascar they are baked in huge
jars, fried in grease, and then mixed with |
rice, forming a dainty much affected by |
the dusky inhabitants of that big island.
The rians have a simpler method.
merely boil the locusts in water and
t them to
grind and
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World's Greatest Sulphur Mine.
One of the strangest minesin the world
is located u the prairie of
Louisiana. In this mine there are no
shafts. No one goes into it with pick and
shovel, and they need no cutting ma-
chinery or safety lam Hot water and
com air do all the work. From
this mine more sulphur is taken than from
any other place in the world, and as a re-
sult of its discovery the United States
8 today as the greatest sulphur-pro-
ucing country.
Here is the unique method of mini
the sulphur. Boiling water is
down thespace between the 10 and 6-inch
pipes, which turns the sulphur into a li-
uid, and this is sucked up to the top
through the smaller i by compressed
air, w it flows by gravity into great
vats. Some of these vats are
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are made of heavy planking,
sulphur flows into them it becomes a
mass, like a lot of coal or iron ore.
When it is desirable to move it the sul-
phur is broken intolumps with hand picks
and shoveled into cars like so much coal.
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principal supply for all countries. And,
while the Italian sulphur is about 50 per
cent dirt and other foreign substance, the
Louisiana uct is 99 per cent pure.
—Van No Magazine.
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long, 250 feet wide and 40 feet in height. ceeded
as
nctive.
Intelligence cannot be considered in all
its expressions as a purely i
faculty. It seems to be com
consciousness of rela-
Physicians are constantly working to
discover new and more efficient methods
of treatment for the many dread diseases
which carry off such a great number of
human lives each year. Pneumonia has
Hays ben yeckoned = one of the most
of mankind's enemies, so that the
gatire world should be vitally interested
n some recent ts conducted
the department of pathology and ik
ology of the Tufts School to de-
termine a remedy for this disease. This
new treatment is by the injection of a
vaccine which is prepared from the yéry
geri which cause Drieutionia, btw
ve previously been rendered harmless.
From the name of this germ the vaccine
is called pneumococcus.
In order that the vaccine might receive
as thorough a test as possible, alcoholic
patients and other severe cases of pneu-
monia were subj
ment. Out of thirty-four of these unfa-
vorable patients who received the vac-
cine all but six recovered. Forty-nine
cases of pneumonia were simi-
larly treated, with the result that there
Were oul} two deaths. In fifteen per cent.
of these latter cases the crises were reach-
ed in three instead of the usual nine
days.
curse it is impossible to draw any
tefinite Is f A
expectations and were most en
couraging. One of the most favorable of
the symptoms noted in the serious cases
was the almost immediate relief of toxe-
number of cases to determine without
question of doubt the true value of the
new treatment a fund has been establish-
ed, through the generosity of certain
philanthropic persons, to suppiy without
cost pneumococcus vaccine to phycicians
who are attending patients suffering from
lobar pneumonia.
000, wi all but $7,000,000 has
been gold.
The coal fields are now an important
factor in Alaska. The report says tha
if opportunity is given to mine coal, rail-
way facilities for its ransportation will
be rushed to completion. exploita-
Hon of theta rich coal feds, it. saver is of
great to Alaska to the
interests of the Pacific States.
It will stimulate manufacturing and,
rvey | and navy—are among
| telligence of man, that of insects is of a | touches of color.
the most popular,
but rose shades, violet and amethyst come
in for a fair share of attention.
The little French colored handkerchiefs
with their i and charming col-
r 0 The | ors make Soy desig 2 of OE and
nces to Little St. John, by Vrouwe'polder, “nervous chain” of insects is formed by
but as nothing happen- where he found his Pietje with her cows. ' two cords joined in ganglions; it is not
a ry he Siply
in a
the top and that Bo u-
The velvet bows in colors to
or harmonize with her tai
another of Milddy's fashion whi
is
ues or browns, lavendars,
Crisp maline bows that are as light
air e the latest Paris hats without
adding weight. This filmy stuff
out and away from the head
numerous bows, wired
duce the effect desired.
maline, crushed into shape,
rose-wreathed creations now
Roses are veiled in this soft ti
sestled in yx wi their aie. tasue,
% for fhe wearer.
round a crown without a bri
the sheer gauzes and laces form ay
Indian or an Arabian turban when held
Sogethier by a. jeweled quill or clasped by
a huge ornament. &
Beads strung in ropes are wrapped wi
the maline that is twisted a
the most graceful turbans.
Whole crowns
New skirts hardly measure two yards
about the hem. yet they are less
scant about th: hips and all the way
down; not that the least fullness is lost,
but skirts have not that strained, uncom-
fortable air about the knees they've been
showing all winter. Some of them are so
St that a diagena) piece runs from the
hip on one to the hem on the other.
A great many large buttons are employed
on skirts as well as jackets, and oa
generally close at the side-back.
Whether or not there will be any sea-
son lasting fashions evolved out of the
Chantecler fad, it is quite certain that the
word itself is to be applied to a vast
amount of things that commonly consti-
tute a woman's wardrobe.
The Chantecler hat is not to be taken
seriously, considered as a whole, but the
Chantecler feathers that are used on it
will probably be with us all summer.
There is no reason against this; they
are really very pretty in curve and color-
ing, and are quite an addition to the vast
amount of common, barnyard plumage
that we have been wearing for years
since the Audubon Society became more
than a name.
_ Its work has given women a queer feel-
ing about wearing songsters and their
plumage, and the milliners have bowed
to the law. At once there sprung into
the millinery market the products of in-
vention and ingenuity, and the result has
been altogether admirable and satisfac-
. We have not sacrificed our better
feelings, and we have not sacrificed the
beauty of our hats.
~ ‘S ay a Duet A ae
of the guinea fow e
chin China hen. We add to this now the
tail and neck ruff of the rooster and call
them Chantecler. :
. To show how ingenious the French are
in naming fashions, in popularizing some
passing garment by giving it a local habi-
tation and a name, there is this story:
This neck frill which they took up last
autumn was a truly French variation on
our more severe and trying Peter Pan.
It was accordian plaited, made of softest
lingerie fabric, and was ied to aneck-
band that was only slightly lower than
the usual one.
Today, and not until today, has it been
1 why? Because it has
ingloriously given the name of Chan-
tecler rufi. And it really is not unlike
the soft collar of long feathers that adorns
a rooster’s neck.
This name has given an impetus to its
being made in the irridescent colorings of
red, and bronze and that one no-
tices in the cock’s feathers; the fabric is
chiffon or pat, and the flocs is gained by
placing a layer of one colorover a la
of another color. Jer
Attractive as this is from a color stand-
however, it can hardly
have a chance to be popular because of
the reason that it is difficult to find
an to put it against.
large quantities, and in every width and
dhs of fineness. wn
It is to be hoped that it will not become
popular in the
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