Respond to Bwe Eyes. Straw Hats at Half Price. er —— v; The Fst Woman's Ring. "Saving Time or Time Tables. emcali Bellefonte, Pa., July 29, 1910. its Stunted Tree Forms and Its Petri. fied Forests. In places in the Colorado desert are stream beds where perhaps once In several years heavy rains in distant mountains will cause water to flow for short time. In these dry water several varieties of stunted tree forms are often found. The des- ert , which resembles the willow with which we are familiar, though smaller in size; the val verde, or green a tree which is a bright green trunk to tip of limb In every and the Ironwood. so dense in that it turns an ax's edge, are the EEE desert vegetation, have not a leaf. They are apparently outcasts from the two great tree divisions, deciduous citrus, for they have leaves nel por to keep. These may the living dogs of the tree We will find here also the e,0p0RE "Es ik ‘ 2 : the mountain range we el 3 i : i largest of which was somewhat more than forty feet high, with a length from crest to crest of 500 feet. It was in the southern Indian ocean that waves attained their fullest develop- ment, and they had been measured there with a length of 780 feet. In the Atlantic it bad been found that waves attaiued a speed of thirty- eight miles an hour in a wind of about forty-four miles an hour. Speaking of the swells in the waves that run free- ly on the surface of the sea after the wind has ceased, Dr. Cornish said that during a storm in December, 1898. he recorded breakers nesr Bournemouth | which moved at sixty-seven miles an hour and had a length from crest to crest of 1.900 feet. In February, 1899, he observed breakers on the same shore which had a speed in deep wa- ter of not less than seventy-eight and a half miles an hour.—London Family Herald. When Kissing Was Costly. The ¢éase of the people against Mur line, heard by the governor of New Haven colony in council on May day, 1660, indicates the attitude toward up- | “Every little while physiologists come to the front with some advantage ac- cruing to people who have blue eyes,” sald the city salesman. “Well, 1 dis | covered a point that they have never mentioned. A jeweler told me. Hels manager of the jewelry department of a big store. 1 applied to him for a situation for my wife's cousin. «What's the color of her eyes? he asked. “ ‘Brown,’ 1 sald. “Bring ber down and 1 will take a look at her, he said, ‘but I am afraid she won't do. People with a certain shade of blue eyes make the best jew- elry salesmen. Many customers who buy jewelry wact some one to try it on so they can get the effect of the stones when worn. There is something about deep blue eyes that brings out the best lights in most jewels. Take notice and you will find that two- thirds of the jeweiry salesmen in New York have blue eyes.’ ”—New York Times. Stingy Queen Bess. Every one who ever aid anything for Queen Bess seems to have been left with a bad debt on his books. So we find ap unfortunate John Conley writing to Sir Robert Cecil that for the last two years he bad been suitor for £100 for “beeves for the army” and complaining that “unless some order be taken 1 shall be undone.” Sir Ed- ward Hastyngs, after spending bis life in serving the queen, bad to pawn his wife's jewels und beg her majesty “to bestow sowething upon me in this wy latter age.” So badly was thé Cee: that beat the armada provisioned that Francis Drake had to seize at Plyu:- outh ninety bags of rice, and the un- fortunute owner, after ten yeurs' waiting. was refused payment, “rice being ap extraordinary victual not ai lowed for the navy.” Nor did common soldiers fare better. The chief anxie- ty of all Elizabeth's ministers ought. in her view, to have been how to save most money.—London Telegraph. Eating For the Love of It. Pawlow has given epicureanism In eating strong scientific support, and many of Horace Fletcher's ideas find orthodox justification. The first rule o! dietetic conduct, according to Fletcher. is to eat only when one is bungry and to eat only the things from which oue anticipates enjoyment. He also teaches that one must eat in the way that gives the greatest sensual pleasure— that is, by thorough chewing and tast- ing; also serenity of mind. pleasant surroundings at a meal, congenli friends, pleasurable conversation—it fact, everything that adds to enjoyment aids digestion. In other words, the process of digestion furnishes a beauti- ful illustration of the influence of mind upon matter. The inspiring stimulus is pot mechanical, but psychic. The preliminary essential to the orderly as- similation of food is the keen desire for it.—McClure's Magazine. A Paradoxical River. On the African shore, near the gulf licensed kissing in those times. It @p-| o¢ Aden and connecting the lake of peared that Jacob Murline and Sarah Assal with the main By or Sy Tuttle had been caught kissing each | goyng one of the most wonderful riv- other. Jacob tried to throw the blame | ong in the world. This curiosity does on Sarah, saying be thought she bad | noe flow to but from the ocean toward “with intent let fall her gloves.” 8a-| jniand. The surface of Lake Assal | L rah denied the intent. Jacob then ad- | yeelf is nearly 700 feet below the mitted that he “tooke her by the hand | meay tide, and it is fed by this para- and they both sat down upon a chest. | goyical river. which is about twenty- but whether he kyssed her or she | (yw, miles in length. It is highly prob- kyssed him he knows not, for he Dev- gpl that the whole basin which the er thought of it since until Mr. Ray- | lagoon partly Glls was once ap arm mond told him that he had not layde it | ,¢ the sea which became separated to heart as he ought.” ‘I'he stern gov- | ernor, after duly lecturing the guilty parties on the enormity of their of- fense, decreed that “the sentence there- fore concerning them is that they shall pay either of them a fine of 20 shil- lings to the colony.” Khartum, Khartum owes its existence to an oriental form of treachery. When Khedive Mohammed Ali invaded the Sudan in 1820 he marched triumph- antly to Shendi. where his troops were entertained at a banquet by the sub- missive natives. But while the khe- dive’s high officials were seated at the feast they shared the fate of the viands and were themselves reduced to funeral baked meats. Full of fury, the army fell on Shendi and demol- ished it. Marching south. the invaders reached the junction of the Blue Nile and White Nile. With the conquer | or's instinct they recognized that the | strip of land, with its few fishermen’s | huts of straw, formed ideal strategical | headquarters, so Khartum finally grew | into the most sensitive part of the | Sudan organism. i i Doubling Up. A boy of eight years was asked by his teacher where the zenith was. He replied. “That spot in the heavens di- | rectly over ope's head.” ° | To test his knowledge further the | teacher asked: “Can two persons have the same %e- nith at the same time?” | “They can.” | “How?” “If one stand on the other's head.” Taxing the Language. Daughter—~Mamma, can’t | have a Learning is ever in the freshness of ' ts youth, even for the oid.—Aeschylus. ' 4 therefrom by the duning of loose sand. The inflowing river has a limited vol- ume. being fullest, of course, at high tide, and has filled the basin to such an extent that evaporation and supply exactly balance each other. His Maternal Grandma. A devoted father after a day's ab sence was met by his two little sons “Have you been good boys?” Silence. “Have you been good boys?” “No, papa: I called grandma a bac yo said five-year-old, turning scar et. “Is it possible? What did you cal! your grandma?" “] called her a human being.” The father. with a mighty effort, maintained his gravity and closed the scene decorously. “1 must forgive you for once. but remember if you ever cal! your grandmother a human being again 1 shall have to spank you.” —. — Stated a Fact. “Do you see the horizon yonder | where the sky seems to ineet the earth?” “Yes. uncle.” “Boy, | have journeyed so pear there that 1 couldn't put a sispence between my head and the Sky © “Qh, uncle. what a whopper.” “It's a fact. my ind. | badn’t one to put.”—Pearson’s Weekly. An Unnecessary System. “You ought to have a burglar alarm system in your house,” stid the elec trical! supply agent. “so that you will be awakened if a burglar raises one of the windows or opens a door at night.” “No burglar can get in here while we are peacefully sleeping!’ replied Mr. Newpop. ‘We are weaning our baby.” —Chicago Record-Herald. Notable Exceptions. Mrs. Bloobumper—Yes, everybody is always ready to give advice. Bloobumper—There are exceptions. “Are there?" “Yes; doctors and lawyers.” The lessons of life are lost if they do not impress us with the necessity of making ample allowances for the im mature conclusions of others. The wowsn showed u tut finger in whose folds of flesh wus lwmbedded a plain gold ring. “How much will you let me have on this ring?" she said to the pawnbroker. “1 can’t tell until you take it off so 1 can weigh it.” be said. She tugged at the ring. It wouldn't the ring toward the band. Then he wound the long end of the thread tightly and evenly around the finger almost to the pail. That done, be took the needle and unwound the thread from the base of the finger out. and as be unwound the ring slipped off. He weighed the ring. “I'wo dollars,” be said. AH 1 TH : Mythical Creatures of Japan. The Japanese believe in more myth- eal creatures than any other people on any remarkable peculiarities of con- formation, but gifted with superpat- ural attributes, such us a tiger which 1s said to live to be a thousand years old and to turn us white as a polar bear. They also believe in a multitude of animals distinguished mainly by their size or by the multiplication of their members. Among these are ser- pents S00 feet long und large enough to swallow an elephant, foxes with eight legs, monkeys with four eurs, fishes with ten beads attached to one body, the flesh of which is a cure for boils. They also believe In the exist- ence of a crane which, after it bas reached the age of GUU years, has no need of any sustenance 2gcept water. ————— — - / Blamed the Last A man who from all appearances bad dined well, but not wisely, bought a ticket at the box office of a theater where a farce was being produced in German. The man settled comfortably back in his seat, smiling at the pretty stage setting and evidently prepared ing to enjoy an evening of pleasant diver- sion. After a time he began to look worried and leaned forward in his seat. “Strangest thing ever sperienced.” be muttered. A few minutes later he left the thea- ter. At the door the ticket taker of- fered him a return. “Nope; don't want it,” he said as he brushed it aside. “Guess that last drink went to my head. Can't under- stand a blamed thing them people a-sayin’. I'm goin’ home to bed.”— Philadelphia Times. Extravagant Mourning. Pepys’ diary bas this on the mourn ing customs of the time: On Sept. 22, | 1660. when there was mourning for | King Charles’ brother, the Duke of | Gloucester, he “bought a pair of short | black stockings to wear over a pair of | silk ones for mourning.” To most people. expecially when they are on the road. time is money. but time tables are not convertible into cash. In the pages of “Through Sav- uge Europe” Harry De Windt gives a curious and amusing experience on a Russian rallway some years ago. The patience of the Russians is in marked contrast with the impatience of Amer- fcan travelers. All Russians bave a rooted antipathy to fast railway travel, if one may judge from an incident which occurred some years ago when 1 was travelling across the Caucasus from Batoum to Baku. We bad reached a tunnel. at the entrance of which the train waited for at least twenty minutes. “There is something wrong.” 1 re- marked to a fellow passenger. “Ol. po,” he replied: “we are only making up the time. This tunnel was recently made to avold a long bend round a range of hills, and as it now cuts off several miles a short delay is pecessary so as to fit in with the sched- uled time.” “But surely we should save time by all the time tables.” ————— Form of Divorce In Old Rome. In the earlier period of the Roman republic divorces were quite unknown and were rare right up to the time of the Sullan wars. Ip the old days the husband and wife who wished to sepa- rate appeared for the last time before the common hearth, a priest and priestess being present. As oD the day of marriage, a cake of wheaten flour was presented to the busband and wife. but instead of sharing it be tween them they rejected it. Then. in. stead of prayers, they pronounced formulas of a strange, severe, spiteful of worship having ceased to exist, the marriage without further ado was for- ever dissolved.—New York American. Floral Etymology. “Primrose” i= one of those words that have shown popular association to be stronger than etymology. It bas po real connection with the rose, but is the old French *“primerole” and. anyhow. means only the “prime” or first flower (more or less) of the year. Our language bas insisted upon mak- “poses” of all sorts of flowers. We have the tuberose. which is only “tuberosa,” tuberous, and the rose mary, which is “rosmarious,” dew of the sea. On the other hand the “rose” has been dropped readily enough in cases where popular fancy could not see the flower. The alchemists called green vitriol “rose of copper,” “cupri- rosa.” In French this became *“‘coupe- rose,” but English wore it down to the pointless “copperas.”—London Chron- icle. { The Dancing Mania. The “dancing wauia” of the middle | | ages came on the heels of the great plague known us the “black death.” It was some sort of nervous disease and is now supposed to have been what is known as “St. Vitus’ dance.” It began in the year 1374 at Alx-la- Chapelle and spread all over Germany. the Netherlands and Italy. The dan- Next day | cers formed circles band in hand and “came one from my father's with a appearing to have lost all reason, con- black cloth coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in." The problem of mourning for men must have been greater than it is now in those days. when ordinary mascaline costume was less somber. On this oc- | tinued dancing. regardless of the by- | standers, for hours together until in their wild delirium they fell to the | ground in sheer exhaustion. Panting | and foaming at the mouth, they would | suddenly spring up and begin the i casion Pepys records seeing “the king | dance again, to be again exhausted, in purple mourning for his brother." ' and so ob until they died. The mania There is one mourning extravagance of the early eighteenth century which would scarcely commend itself—the soles of the shoes used to be blacked. —8t. James®' Gazette. The Two Occasions. At a Scotch temperance meeting an old man. scarcely celebrated for his so- | involved millions of people. The Twelve Jurymen. A prisoner 1s tried by twelve of his i fellow countrymen. This custom is a thousand years old. and we get it from | the vikings. The vikings divided their country up into cantons, which were subdivided into twelve portions, each briety. arose and after addressing the | under a chieftain. When a malefactor audience upon the desirability of mod- eration in all things, remarked: “My friends, there's just twa oceca- sions when | tak’ whisky.” There was a chorus of “Abs!” in the audience, when be continued. “1 only tak’ whisky when | hae haggis for dinner. and the only other occasion when 1 tak’ whisky is when | hae no baggis for dinner.” Suspicious. It was down in the marker district. “What this country needs is plenty of bone and sinew.” said the tall one. “Yes, and plenty of grit and sand.” echoed the short one. “By the way. what business are you in*" “Oh. I'm a butcher. And you?" “Wh—er—1 distribute strawberries when they arrive from the southern markets.” —Chicago News. The Human Mind. Slow in forming. swift in acting; slow in the making. swift in the work- ing; slow in the summit. swift down the other slope. It is the way of na- ture and the way of the human mind. ~-Anthony Hope. Precocious In Spots. Bobby—Do | have to go to school, mother? Mother—Of course, Bobby. Bobby— Why. mother. | heard you tell father last night that | knew entirely too much.—Detroit Free Press. The Unknown Great. “My tooth hurts like Sam HII" “Who the Dickens is Sam Hill?” “Well. who in Sam Hill is Dickens?” «Toledo Blade. Be neither ignorant nor careless with respect to the future.—Vergil | was brought to justice it was usual . for each chieftain to select a man from the district over which he ruled and compel him to try the prisoner. the verdict of these twelve men being de clared by the judge to be final Made Her Mad. “1 thought 1 overheard you and your | wife quarreling a little while ago. | What was the trouble?” | “She brought home a new hat. and after putting it on she turned to me and said she didn't believe it was be coming.” “Well “1 agreed with her."—Chicago Rec- | ord-Herald. A One Sided Rule. Once when P. T. Parpum was tak- ing tickets at the entrance of his cir- | cus a man asked him if he could go in without paying. “You can pay without going in,” said Barnum, “but you can't go in without paying. The rule doesn’t work both ways.” Not by Exclusion. He—I had a hard time getting a | good wife. She—Goodness: Have you been mar- ried several times? “Ob. no. But | courted my present one six years.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Usually the Way. Mamie—She is trying to keep her marriage a secret. Maud-How do you know? “She told me so.” — —————— To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless oneself.~ | George Sava. EEE SEE REE ER EEE, One Week Only They Won't Last Any Longer. 150 Men’s Suits Some Young Men’s in the lot. All this season's goods. One and two suits of a EERE REERRERRRRERRRREREEEREED, ind, At 1-3 Less than the regular price. There are only 150 Suits included in this sale. Come early if you want a good selection. =X M. 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