Bellefonte, Pa., May 20, 1910. He Made the Most of an Unpleasant Situation. A group of men were discussing buman nature and the difficulty of looking always on the bright and glit- tering side of things when the dingy. dark brown side is uppermost and seems destined to remain uppermost. “It's a great thing to cultivate a disposition to make the most of things in this life,” remarked a man who used to drive trotting horses for a living. “The most striking illustration | ever had of that was in a big horse race at a county fair down the state about ten years ago. The man driving along- side of me let his horse swerve on the back stretch, and my sulky was upset. That caused a general mixup, and a colored driver right behind me got un- loaded and his sulky broken to pieces. Well, 1 lay there for a minute, and then, as I didn't seem to be much hurt. I started to get up. “Hey, boss, don’ yo' go gittin® up” yelled the colored driver at me excit- edly. “ ‘Why? 1 asked him, some puzzled. «¢'Cause,’ he answered, ‘yo’ all lay right wha’ yo' is, and in a minute they'll sen’ roun’ hyah and haul us back pas’ the gran’ stan’ in a ecaib- hiage.’ “Sure enough, they did, and when we drove up that home stretch in the open hack they sent for us that col- ored man was the happiest person | ever saw. Now, that's what I call making the most of things."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. The Way the Young People Beg'~ Their Lovemaking. The most important event in the lif» of a Portuguese woman Is marriage. Next in importance are the early days of courtship, for a Portuguese couri- ship is the essence of romance, aud the ways of the Portuguese lover are singularly picturesque. Here is a lit- tle drama in which Cupid is stage di- rector. If a young Portuguese sees in the street a pretty girl with whom be would like to become acquainted he follows her. Chaperons are not im- possible obstructions. He follows her right up to her very door and note" the address. Next day he comes again. and if the young lady approves of him —for she certainly saw him the day before—she is on the lookout. Sometimes hard fate in the guise of an angry parent prevents her, and then the gallant youth is kept waiting. Sooner or later she leans over the ha'- cony and smiles at him. The happy youth ties a note to a cord which th» fair lady drops from the balcony. The next day the young man comes again This time he rings at the door. If the inquiries which the young lady's elders have made prove satisfactory the swain is admitted to make the ac- quaintance of the young lady. After that courtship in Portugal is about the same as it is in Kankakee or Kala- mazoo.—Leslie’'s Weekly. Not a Laughing Matter. Cut off from family and home by . relentless tide, fat Mr. Bodger had been forced to clamber till he gained a pathway cut in the cliff’s face. It was a narrow path, and Mr. Bodger was no narrow man Getting more frightened every moment, he proceed: ed warily along the fast diminishing way till at last it faded suddenly into what the poets would call “sweet noth- ingness.” Already he was overlay ping. and it was impossible to turn. An excited crowd watched his prog- ress from above. “What on earth am I to do?’ gasped Bodger desperately on his four inch ledge as he gripped a tuft of seaweed with one hand. “Do, guv'nor?’ came back a voice. “Do anyfink you like, but for good!- ness’ sake don't larf or your weskit ‘ll bump yer off as sure as eggs is eggs!” —London Answers. Can't Please Everybody. * “The manager of an asbestus mill conceived a novel idea for his an- nouncements. He had them printed on thin asbestus aud inclesed in envel- opes of the same waterial. As he was uncertain of the correct addresses of some of the stockholders, he ordered his stenographer to write on each en- velope “Please Forward.” The idea was clever, but one may appreciate the feelings of the widow of one of the stockholders when she received an asbestus envelope address. ed to her late husband with the in- “Please Forward” beneath the address. —Lippincott's, All Were Pretty. During an equestrian performance 2a number of ladies in the front stood up, thus obstructing the view of those persons who were seated. In vain were they collectively requested to sit down till at last a happy thought oc- curred to one of the sufferers. He called out in measured tones: “will the pretty lady in front kindly sit down?’ whereupon about fifty old women briskly seated themselves.-- ondon Tatler. That Boy Again. Mrs. Boardem—I ordered lamb and you sent me mutton. Butcher—It was lamb when it left here, mum.—Judge’s Library. Good reasons must, of course, give place to better. —Shakespeare, The Feminine Instinct. “What on earth made your mother bring home that bundle of feathers?" “I'm sure 1 don't know, dad, unless ft was because she saw it marked “down. "Baltimore American. Every day at noon at Grindelwald of visitors for the tele- :E : g 2% 1 ] ieading keeping twenty yards in advance and on the watch. At the bottom of the Mettenberg, where the slope is freed from snow, the chamois find a meager subsistence when their usual feeding grounds are under deep snow. [Ir ix a curious fact that the chamois de- scend to their feeding grounds ut dawn. when there is little likelihood of avalanches, and return to their haunts at an hour when avalanches - for this portion of the mountain has frequent avalanches—have already fall- en and the danger is past.—Geneva Cor. Pall Mall Gazette. and the Burglar. A good dog bas hitherto been con- sidered the hest protection against bur- glars, but a certain old lady differs from this view. She believes in cats, and, her house being broken into net long ago, she proceeded to put her theory into practice, and with marvei- ously good results, The midoight hour had not long struck when she heard unusual sounds in the ball below. She slipped out of bed. took her faithful feline in her arms and walked quiety on to the landing. She leaned over. The burglar was on the stairs. Sud- denly in an unlucky moment he struck | a match upon the staircase. The lady could see the burglar, but the burglar could not see the lady. She held puss up and then dropped her upon the bur- glar's head. The cat uttered an un- earthly screech and then commenced to scratch for all it was worth. Puss was certainly the willing worker. The next instant the man was outside in the streeti—Manchester Guardian, Whistler's Friendships. That Whistler, the man of famous enemies, had faithful friends is re- called by Ford Madox Hueffer. writing of the pre-Raphaelites in Harper's Magazine. Madox Brown had a circu lar printed drawing the attention o! all his old patrons to the merits of Whistler's etchings and begging them in the most urgent terms to make pur. chases because Whistler was in in- digent circumstances. The story ix that upon one occasion Mado. Brown, going to a tea party at the Whistlers’ in Chelsea, was met in the ball by Mrs. Whistler, who begged him to go to the poulterer’s and purchase a pound of butter. The bread was cut, but there was nothing to put upon it. There was no money in the house, the poulterer had cut off his credit, and Mrs. Whistler said “she dared not send her husband. for he would certainly punch the tradesman’s head.” Why He Waited. The man who is anxiously watching the steeple jack at work 300 feet from the ground is approached by n pass. ing acquaintance. “Hello, Brown!” says the latter. “Are you still here? It's fully an hour axe that 1 saw you standing in the very same spot.” “That fellow up there gives me the cold shivers,” says Brown. “He makes me feel weak in the knees." “Golng buck to your office?” inquires the friend. “1 guess so,” Brown reluctantly re. plies, “There doesn’t seem to be much use in waiting any longer. 1 don’t he: lieve he is going to fall.” And he turned away with a lingering glance at the intrepid jack.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Great Age of Halley's Comet. While Halley's comet has been iden- tified as a member of our system for over 2,000 years, certain characteris. tics of its orbit lead us to believe that it has been with us at least ten o¢ perhaps 100 times as long as that. According to all accounts, it was a magnificent object at the time of the Norman conquest in 1006. Its head ‘was equal to the full moon in size, and its tail increased to a wonderfu! length.—Century. A Queer Hiding Place. During a furious storm in Paris 2 janitor was struck ou the shoulder hy a small but heavy tin box which had fallen from an upper story of a house in the Rue de I'Ouest. The box wax found to contain $6.000 in gold and notes. It was claimed at the police station by an elderly woman. who said that the money constituted her entire savings, which she had hidden by ty- ing the box to the drainpipe outside her window. Another Theory Demolished. “It costs nothing to be polite.” “You're wrong. While 1 was polite- ly picking up a glove for a lady yes- terday my new four dollar hat blew off and rolled in front of a passiug trolley car.”—Chicago Record-Herald. How Hg Got Out of It. “My dear, before marriage you told “Yes, but now I have come to think such talk savors too much of egotism.” -Lippincott’s. Inherited. Knicker—Jones is all the time want- ing more money. Bocker—No wonder; his father was a college president and his mother was a woman.—New York Sun. He only confers favors generously who appears, when they are once con. ferred, to remémber them no more.— Johnson. ‘Prayer Meeting In the Commons. For many years a prayer meeting has been held in the house of com- mons once a week during every pariia- foentary session. No one knows who Jrismares the idea, but the records of proceedings, which are faithfully noted each week, show that in the year 1833 the well known Quaker Mr. T. Fowell Buxton and the evangel- fcals Sir George Grey and Mr. Zach- ary Macauley were in constant at- tendance. The prayer meeting is held in a room granted for the purpose by the sergeant-at-arms and is restricted to twenty minutes. The proceedings are very simple. At each weekly meet- ing a president for the following week is chosen. On the day of assembling Tuesday, at 5 o'clock—the president for the day opens the meeting. reads a portion of the Scriptures and either offers an extempore prayer or calls on one of the members to pray. Two or three others offer short prayers, and the meeting closes with the benedic- tion.—London News. He Begs Pardon No More. Jones had just trod on the toe of an old gentleman while getting into the tram car. “1 beg your pardon,” he said. “Hey? Speak louder. I'm a trifle deaf.” “I beg your pardon,” repeated Jones. “H'm! Peggy starving? Well, I'm sorry. Who's Peggy?” Jones was red in the face now. “You misunderstand, sir!” he shout- ed. “Hey™ “You misunderstood!” “Miss Underwood, is she? Peggy. who is starving, i3 Miss Underwood? Well? “] didn't say anything about Mixx Underwood!” screamed Jones. *1 beg ged your pardon, and you misunder- stood.” “Oh, now I see!” said the old man sympathetically. “It is your Aum Peggy who is starving Miss Under. wood. Well, why don’t you report the case to the police? —Pearson’s. Not In Her Class. While delivering an address at » woman's club an actress told the story of a young woman prominent in New York society who desired to achieve histrionic honors. The manager to whom she confided her desire pointed out the inadvisabil- ity of the step she contemplated and added that even were he disposed to give her the chance she coveted he would still be in doubt whether her talents were such as to justify such action on his part. “What is particularly desired by us at the present time,” he said, “is the service of people who know the me- chanics of the stage.” “Merciful heavens!” exclaimed the young woman, throwing up her bands “You don't mean to tell me that it is Grocerics. necessary I should be on terms of In- timacy with those dreadful stage hands 7’—Lippincott's. Proud of His Prospects. Louis Pierre was one of a namber of Canadian immigrants who settled at Fitzgerald, Ga. As he spoke both French and English he rapidly be- came a man of importance and was successively elected to the offices of city marshal, coroner and justice of the peace. A dispute arose between the French and English settlers as to the superiority of the United States over the Canadian provinces. They finally agreed to leave the decision to Judge Pierre, who handed down this decision: “Yoost tage a loog at me. Ferst dey mage me constabul, den coroner, und now joostis of de pees. Soon I be zc governair, den senator. den president. I would be ze long time in Canadaire ‘fore dey mage me queen.”—Circle Magazine. A Diet of Wild Honey. Wild honey as a change js an agree. able sweetmeat, but after a few days constantly partaking of it the Euro pean palate rejects it as nauseous sud almost disgusting. Our experience ex- tended over a fortnight, during which period our food consisted solely of it and maize. It has escaped the Biblical commentators that one of the prin pal hardships that John the Baptis must have undergone was his diet of wild honey.—Geographic Magazine. Ancient Oath Taking. A method of taking the oath far more hygienic than kissing the book was that observed at the Forest of Dean Mine court for about 500 years, beginning in the thirteenth century. It was not for any hygienic reasons, but to prevent soiling the book that the miners before giving evidence touched the four gospels with a stick of holly. The witnesses wore their hats to show that they were free min- ers.—London Chronicle, Only Part of the Truth. Ives—I saw Captain Deepeeres today. Beers—Well, what if you did? Ives— What if I did? Didn't you tell me that he was with his vessel when sha went down last week with all on board? Beers—Yes, Lut 1 didn't tell you his vessel was a submarine.—Chi- cago News, An Exception. Binks—Here is somebody who says that no woman is a suffragist unless she has a grouch on some man. Sinks —That's queer. My wife isn't a suf- fragist.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Pa Was Wise. “Papa, what is quiet hostility?” “Quiet hostility, little Jim, is the way in which when 1 decline to give you a penny you sneak round behind my chair and make faces.” —Scraps. Groceries. Yeagers Shoe Store JORNNIE’S New Panis. Johnnie told his mother that his new pants were much tighter than his skin. Why, how could that be? Well, I can sit down with the skin on and I cannot with the pants on. That is the trouble with the average ladies shoes, they are too tight that they cannot sit down or stand up. Come and be fitted with a pair of Fitzezy Shoes, they are made without linings and can be worn tight with com- fort. They are just like a kid glove, they give with every movement of the foot. Corns will vanish when you wear them. Your bunions will be relieved at once. 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