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Bemorwaiy Wald
Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1910.
GLASS AND CUT GLASS.
Buyers for large houses are some
times deceived when buying cut glass
and find they bave bought what Is
commercially known us p lass
instead of the genuine article
Yet there are a few simple rules
that will safeguard the ordinary buyer
at retail. The chief one is to pick our |
only what the mapufacturer
vases, jugs, pitchers, bottles and the
like.
These cannot be duplicated In press
ed glassware, which is first molded
patterns and the edges ground. This |
process gives it so close a resemblance |
to real cut glass that even experis |
may be deceived.
But in the “closed In” articles some
way is yet to be devised by which the
pressed lines can be followed through
the opposite side when put cn ihe
wheel to be cut, as the pressed pur:
interferes with the workman seein
through the glass, which he has to dao
in order to follow the lines of the de
sign on the cutter.
The kind of cut glass that is coun
terfeited is called open work, such as
plates, nappies or any flat article
through which the workman can read
fly see when finishing it.
Another help in selecting cut glass
is its weight. The genulpe is made
from pure lead glass, made chiefly in
America, especially for cutting This
lead glass is very beavy.
The first step toward cutting Is to
mark on the “blank” —that is, the dish
in the clear glass—in red or other pain:
the design that has heen selected for
it.
The most common designs are din
‘mond shapes, stars of varjous poiuis
crosses and squares and other geo!
rical patterns.
The desig» must be marked on the
glass exactly to stand the test of com
pass and rule. When all lines are un
perfect accordance with the pattern
and also fit the blank the “roughing”
begins. This is cutting the heavy work.
such as the necks of vases and bottles
and the heavy lines ou the stars.
This is done on a machine called the
“mill,” a big wooden framed affair. on
top of which is n hopper holding about
half a ton of Berkshire hills =an«
This sand is the only kind in this
country that bas proved satisfactory
for this work.
The sand runs down through the
hopper, is moistened with water and
comes out of a large steel disk, the
edge of which is sharp. This disk i=
turned by power at a very high speed.
The wet sand of the disk gives it =n
“tooth,” which when the glass is held
against the edge of the disk cuts very
rapidly.
All the coarse and heavy cutting is
- done on this “mill.”
The cutting iv of the finer work be-
gins on a mill with a stone disk re
sembling an old fashioned grindstone
but much narrower and with a beveled
edge. These stones come chiefly from
Italy or Scotland. They are very hard
and carry a keen edge a long time
They are used for the tine cutting a!
together.
There is # stone found in Nova Sco
tia much softer that cuts quicker and
is used for fluting ou water bottles
and compotes where heavy cuts are
desired. Very often as many as fifteen
or twenty different stones of varying
degrees of hardness are used for the
cutting of one article.
After the design has been all cut
comes one of the most difficult parts
of the work, the polishing.
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closed in articles. By this he means
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: He Could Not Recommend It.
| The editor was seated at his desk,
busily engaged in writing a fervid edi-
torial on the necessity of building a
pew walk to the cemetery, when a
sttered specimen of the tramp print.
er entered the office,
“Mornin’, boss,” sald the caller. “Got
any work for a print?”
“1 nave,” answered the editor. “You
happened in just right this time. I've
got only a boy to help me in the office,
and 1 need a man to set type for about
a week. I have to make a trip out
west. You can take off your coat and
| begin right mow. 1 start tomorrow
| morning.”
“All right,” sald the typographical
| tourist, removing his coat
| road are you going to travel on?”
“The X., Y. and Z. mostly. [I've nev-
er been on it. Know anything about
“l1 know all about it. [I've traveled
| it from one end to the other.”
“What kind of road is it?”
! “Bum!" said the printer In a tone
| indicative of strong disgust. “The
ties are too far apart!"—Youth's Com-
panion.
The Artistic Japanese.
Artistic impulses govern even the
ordinary artisan In Japan. This, from
an article in the Craftsman by Mr. L.
Wakeman Curtis, illustrates the fact:
“In so commercial and ovonartisic a
porcelain district as Nagoya | saw a
big room full of men working in clay,
hastily copying in quantities pleces
that were to go. In a shipload, to fill
an order in England. 1 paused be-
side a man who was finishing soap
dishes. On each cover, before it went
to be baked. he was adding the knob
by which it could be lifted. That on
the European model before him was
utterly without sentiment, less gra-
clous of shape than a freshly digged
onion or potato. With a few slight,
quick touches, seemingly as unthink-
ing as a machine, he was yet doing
more than was required—he was caus-
ing each knob as it passed under his
Lands to take the look of a half open-
ed bud, a faint hint of a leaf being
also quickly modeled in the ‘biscuit’
beneath it.”
Paris’ Worst Flood.
In the year 12006 rose the greatest
flood of which history makes any rec-
ord in Paris. “Men went in boats over
the wall of the king's garden.” All
the island was covered, and from the
foot of the hill of the university to
out of a lake a mile wide. In that
flood was swept away the old stone
bridge that Charles the Bald had built
centuries earlier, before even the Nor-
mans besieged the town, and in that
flood the Petit Chatelet was destroyed.
The Petit Pont fell into the river also,
but that was nothing wonderful, for it
was the most unfortunate of bridges
and never stood firmly for fifty years
at a streteh, but was-forever being de-
stroyed and regularly rebuilt. The
waste of this flood was the signal for
Philippe le Bel's rebuilding.—Hilaire
Belloe's “Paris.”
Points About a Good Horse.
There are some points which are val-
uable in horses of every description.
The head should be proportionately
large and well set on. The lower jaw-
bones should he sufficiently far apart
to enable the head to form an angle
with the neck, which gives it free mo-
tion and a graceful carriage and pre-
vents it bearing too heavily on the
hand. The eye should be large, a lit-
tle prominent, and the eyelids fine and
thin. The ear should be small and
erect and quick in motion.
ear indicates dullness and stubborn-
ness. When too far back there is a|
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the rising ground beyond the Marrais
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Colonel Samuel Sloper Was # Jack of
All Trades.
It is pecessary that the ploneer be
a man of infinite resource, who can do
for himself or his neighbors every nec-
essary task. Such a wan war Colonel
Samuel Sloper, one of the early set-
tlers of Blandford. Mass, whose as-
tonishing versatility is recorded by S.
G. Wood in “Taverus and Turopikes
of Blandford.”
Colonel Sioper, among other things.
kept something of u stable and pas-
tured horses and stock. For the mu-
uificent reward of 3 shillings the old
veteran in 1788 moved the family of
David Knox by means ot “teame and
boy.” Now and then he turned his
hand to odd jobs. He carted and laid
(out John Waldo Wood's flax one sea
son for £7 10s,
| He seems to bave made shoes and
garments for his family and for Ris
neighbors. For Epos Loomis’ young
son, who was bound out to him, be
did on this wise: “Caping your son's
shoes, 1-3." "One bottle-green cout
trimmed and made for Moses, 7 shil
lings.” He made several shirts and
a frock for the Martin Leonard com-
pany. .
The number of things which this vet-
eran and “dabster” did make an as-
tonishing list. He was surgeon in or-
dinary to the parish of Blandford and
this long before be had accumulated
an army experience. Veterinary, teo,
he was. His journals are peppered
over with charges for the treatment
of young horses. In the account of
Eliphalet Thompson in the year 1772,
along with a “frying Pann” and "1
Pr Sizers.” is the charge, “To Seting
| your boys rist. twelve shillings.”
James Sinnett in 1780 became indebt-
ed to "Seting your knee and Dress-
ings” and to “Sundri Dressings.” 4 and
3 shillings respectively.
Cne Failure.
“It's funny our winister never gets
married.” remarked the young bus-
band who had just refused his wife a
new dress in his endeavor to change
the subject. “1 think he'd make a
good husband.”
I “Well,” replied the wife warmly,
| “he didn't seen to muke a very good
one when he married us
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A Large Number of Plants Bear Cleis-
togamous Blossoms.
The never opening flower, or, as bot-
anists call it, cleistogamy, is well illus-
trated by the case of the common
sweet violet. ‘The familiar purple,
sweet scented blossom, which to most
people is the violet ower, hardly ever
produces any seed. But altogether un-
seen by most people it produces a
number of minute, scentless and col-
orless flowers which never open.
These are self fertilized and produce
abundant seed. The word cleistog-
amous expresses the fact that the
fertilization takes place without the
opening of the flower and hence with-
out the agency of insects. Such never
opening flowers occur ip a large num-
ber of plants, sometimes along with
blossoms of the ordinary sort and
sometimes without them. It is a dis
puted point. however. whether there
is any plant which in all circumstances
will produce nothing but cleistogamous
flowers.
There are nevertheless a oumber
which normally produce nothing else.
As regards fertility, the seeds pro-
duced by the cleistogamous flowers are
never inferior to those of the ordinary
blossoms. In some cases they are su-
perior and in others they are the only
seed produced by the plant.
it has been found that the amount of
cleistogamy varies with the height of
the plants. The shortest bear cleis-
togamic flowers only, and those a Iit-
tle taller hove a few small open flow-
ers in addit'on to the closed ones. The
tallest plants have larger open flow-
ers. with only a few cleistogamic.—
Botanical Gazette.
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Only Chance.
“Do you believe,” queried the fair
widow, “that universal peace will ever
be established”
“Not unless people quit getting mar-
ried.” growled the old bachelor.—Chi-
cago News,
The Settiement.
Suitor—What will your father settle
on the man who marries you? The
Girl— Ail the rest of the family, 1 sup-
pose.—S8t. Louis Times.
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them is proved by more than forty thousand
testimonials.
"Roots, Barks, Herbs
That are Known to Possess Great Medicinal Value
Are so combined in Hood's Sarsaparilla as to be raised to their highest efficiency for the cure
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Grocerics.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
TAKENIEVERY SPRING—"One spring | was
feeling bad, and could not do my housework
for a family of three. I took Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla and it did me so much good, I have taken
it every spring since.” Mrs. J. Johnson, Man-
chester, N. H.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is Peculiar to Itself. It makes people well and keeps them well.
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have found ay
Sechler & Company
COFFEE
When“goods advance on the market the retail price
usually follows. But in regard to the recent advance in
I Coffees we have not followed the ordinary course, either
ce or reducing the quality. We
more favorable market in which to
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We say
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This is dove on the outside of 1h. | disposition to mischief.
work with a very high speeded brush
Clothes are
i buy the goods and maintain the high standard cf our
i leaders at 18c, 20c and 25 cents per pound.
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wheel covered with moistened pumice
stone powdered. This stone is lava
threwn off Ly a volcano,
Large wooden disks made to fit the
cuts and fed with pumice and water
are used for polishing the fine work in
and around the delicate tracery of the
pattern.
The hand of the glass cutting expert
must be steady, strong and accurate,
for the least mistake spoils a whole
pattern. In the case of a fourteen
inch punch bowl! this means the loss of
$30.
Another kind of gluss cutting fis
known as stone engraving. It is done
with little stone wheels and copper
tools entirety by hand. The designs
are chiefly vines and flowers. They
are not cut deep and are often mis-
taken for pressed glass. In reality
they are the most expensive kind of
cut glass, the price for a single piece
of large size and ornate decoration
reaching four figures.
Glass cutting is not only a trade, but
an art, and any one after seeing the
method employed will readily under-
stand why genuine cut glass com-
mands high prices.— Boston Globe.
Men In Petticoats.
An Odd Gypsy Custom.
In Hungary, when the question of
the baby’s future comes up for dis-
cussion among the gypsies, there is no
time wasted in argument. A blanket
is held by the four corners, and the
baby is thrown into the air. If it
comes down on its little stomach it is
a sign that it is going to be a mu-
sician; if it falls on its back it is to
be a thief, and the education of the
child is begun as soon as possible in
one of these two time honored profes-
sions.
Painfully Frank.
“Mr. Coldcash, I have come to ask
for the hand of your daughter.”
“My daughter, sir?”
“Yes, I can’t live without her.”
“Well, sir, finish your sentence.”
“Finish my sentence?”
“Yes, you were about to say you
could not live without her income.
Let us be candid.”
How She Got the Job.
“The one thing we demand from our
employees,” said the head of the office
force, “Is correctness in figures.”
The applicant smoothed her hipless
skirt complacently.
18 cent grade.
20 cent
If you are using a Coffee at 20 cents per pound (fry our
If you are paying 25 cents for your Coffee fry our
goods.
Or if you are buying at 30 cents try the high grade
goods we sell at 25 cents per pound. me
This is a severe test but we are very confident we can
make good. Give us a trial, and please mention in which
paper you saw this advertisement. {ign
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It will probably be a matter of sur- “I have never had any complaints on i
prise to the general reader to learn | that score,” she replied, with a glance A Chemist A Teacher
thay the petticoat was first worn ex- | of assurance.—Bystander. An Engineer A Lawyer
usively by men. In the reign of King . 0 ts
Henry VIL the dress of the English Anticipated. An Electrician A Physician
was so fantastic and absurd that it | “I've often marveled at your bril- ienti rnali
was difficult to distinguish one sex your aptness at repartee, A Scientific Farmer A Jou st
from the other. In the inventory of
Henry V. appears a “petticoat of red
damask, with open sleeves.” There is
liancy,
your”
“If it's more than 5 shillings. old
man, I can't do a thing for you. I'm
Or secure a Training that will fit you well for any honorable position in life.
TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES.
no mention of a woman's petticoat be- en”, TAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 1900, the General Courses have been i
TO ED pe nearly broke myself.”—London Mail fied. rR n more : eee extensively mod
Innocent Fun. th Fir Sy he Wants of thoes &
Crue: Blow. “Hey!” exclaimed his uncle. “What Tost thorough training for 4b the wants of those w Sher She
“Are you aware of the fact” re-
marked Miss Cutting. “that | am a
mind reader?”
“Nevah suspected it. weally,” an-
swered young Softleigh. ‘““Would you
—aw—object to weading my mind,
doncher know?”
“Certainly not,” she replied. “Bring
it with you the next time you call.”
are you
watch
“No,” replied the innocent solemnly;
*“t'sin’ th'ow it thoo the f'oor.”-—Buf-
falo Express,
trying to do—bresk my
Early and provident fear is the
mother of safety.—Burke.
and positions.
For specimen
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