Goi second time he hit over the same fence, Democrat Walden. "Bellefonte, Pa., September 2, 1910. Origin of the Name of This Group of Daring Criminals. According to the United States se cret service, the Black Hand is a title cowwon to iopumernble groups of criminals operating under the direction of some secret central government. These men are blackmallers, using murder, arson, kidnaping and bomb throwing as punishments for those who will not submit to thelr iniquitous demands. Black Hand Is, ip short, a handy oame for a brand of crime pe- culiar to Italian criminals who are suc- cessful ip it bernuse of the tempera- ment of the foreign immigrants and their inborn dread of the extortionist Whether the central government which guides the Black Hand society Is io cated in the United States or in Itary is something which neither the ltalian nor American authorities can discover Unified States officers say the name of the Awerican Black Hand emanated from Chicago about ten years ugo, when one of the first of many myste- ! rious murders In the Italian quarter remained unsolved. The victim of the murder had received a warning that death would follow his failure to coon- tribute a specified sum of money. The letter was embellished with a crude drawing representing a tist clutching a dagger. The tist and dagger gave the pame Black Hand-—later to become un- pleasantly familiar to every citizen of the country—and the sinister sketch was soon a source of terror to all law abiding Italians.—Wide World Maga- zine. Delehanty’s Four Homers and a Single In Five Times at Bat. The baseball expert Hugh S. Fuller- | tou, in an article on “Batting” in the American Magazine, desctibes as fol- ! lows the greatest hitting feat recorded, | executed by Ed Delebanty, and which | it was his good fortune to witness: \ “Adonis Terry was pitching—a great pitcher with a wonderfully fast curve ball—and three of the howe runs were made off the curve. The first time | at bat Delebunty bit the ball high over | the right field fence, perhaps seventy feet from the foul lle. which would | be 245 feet from the plate, and the ! fence was thirty-five feet high. The but farther towurd center field. The | third time he drove a single over short | stop. a line bit und perhnps the hard- | est hit of all. Dablen, leaping. touched ! the ball with both hands. They were | torn apart and the ball caromed al- | most to the left tielders before it struck | the ground. The next howe run was | straight 10 the center Held between | the clubhouses, nearly 400 feer away. | The Inst time he came to the Lat the crowd was cheering him on. Lange retired between the clubhouses, which were set ar angles. Delehanty bit a | curve ball. It alighted on the roof of one clubhouse, bounded to the roof of | the other and rolled balfway back to | the second baseman And yet Chicago | won the game—s to t. i Doubling Her Capacity. “1 want a nurse gir! who is capable of taking care of twins,” sald a woman to the manager of an employment | agency. A dozen maids ranged against the wall were questioned as to their fa- | miliarity with twins. Finally one girl | produced documentary evidence that | for the last five years most of her | waking moments had been spent in the company of twins. She got the ! Job. When she reported for work in | the afternoon she was introduced to | but one infant. . “Where is the other one?” she asked. | “Oh, there are no twins about this | house,” said ber mistress. “I just sald rwins so | would be sure to get a | competent nurse. Any girl who is capable of bandling two children can give extra good care to one. That is a little ruse | always employ when 1 | hire a purse.”—New York Times. The Wolves and the Meat. “] had thought that it was peculiar ! to buman nature to regard that which | one has as of less value thau that which ove has not, but | bad reason to change my opinion the other day.” said a visitor to the zoo. ' “A keeper tossed four pieces of meat | into the den of two gray wolves. One | plece landed on the roof of the shelter | bouse, and a wolf with a lame fore leg passed over the pieces on the ground. and, standing on his hind legs, tried and tried to get that on the roof, which was just out of reach. The other hun- gry wolf gave his attention to the | pleces on the ground and dispdsed of all three. Going over to the house, he sniffed for a moment and then sprang upon the roof, ate the fourth piece and stretched out for repose.” -New York Sun. : A Mean Trick. Algernon—What's this | heah about Miss Giitcoln agweeing tv MAawWwy you and then going back on ber word? Percy—That is the stwalt ot it, Pm sowwy to say. Algernon — Beastly twick, deab boy. Why don’t you sue ter fob nonsupport? You've got a clean case, doncher know.—Chicago News. And Such Is Fame. Mrs. Bluehgose—Your new boarder is literary, | am told. Mrs, Yes, indeed Why, with his books and papers he litters his room worse than" aay boarder [ ever had.— Exchange. Minor Operations. Surgeon's Sop — What is & “minor operation,” pa?! Surgeon — One for which the fee Is iess than three figures. New York Times. HER POKER HAND. Mrs. Bunsen Knew It Was Good and Played It to the Limit. The Bunsens went over to spend the evening with the Goitts, because peo- ple get tired of staying at home all the time and just listening to each other's palaver. Goitt suggested that they all sit around Mrs. Goitt's little sewing table and have a nice friendly game of poker for an hour or so. It was only a penny ante five cent limit game, but then people have been known to clean up a first rate little bunch of pin money in even such a juvenile game as that. and Buusen soon had his chips stacked up in four little cylinders in front of him. Mrs. Bunsen would reach over and borrow ten chips or so now and again, and a momentary frown would flit over her busband’s brow, but he didn’t say any- thing. By and by Bunsen took notice of the fact that Mrs. Bunsen was reaching ower into his subtreasury vaults and picking up chips half a stack at a time and putting them into the pot as fast as she could meet Trade in Human Hair. Among the most peculiar trades is the in human hair. In the year of BO a ong or shipment to t United States was 53,133 pounds, and in 1908 the amount reached 207,414 pounds. In the first year three-fourths of the BE a har one- was wa ot Ptise. of the hair is broug > greater past ir is ht to Hong Kong from the interior of China, where it is cleaned and sorted, according 10 is Jeagth aud quality. Itis Shen Pack- Shipped, greater part of it ing to New York. ge the latter city the hair is treated in such a manner that the color and texture are - making the switches, curls and puffs that are so fashionable at the prasent time. The demand for the hair been great and many of the importers have been unable to supply their cus- tomers. Many of the American firms send men to China to contract for their supply. ——At many of the fashionable week- end house parties it is the custom to serve the guests with their grape fruit, muffins, etc., in their own rooms. Every well-regulated home now has its daintily appointed breakfast tray for the use of | then.—Chicago News. ' sald: “Mamma has one just like this. | beauty ot curved legs, and the Bene! + dict to be turned to bis sweetheart and | i asked innocently. "Are your legs , curved? | solitary cottage congratulated himself Goltt's bets and raise him. gucst or invalid, and these trays are to Be bes Wien sv Wh te Svs or he Dra his hoard of chips disap . ina tray, decked with snowy napery and gar- way that inquired plainly, “Are you |; with a fresh flower from the gar- sure you've got it on him? den or window box, makes a very cheery “Got a straight,” whispered Mrs. | beginning for the invalid's day. Bunsen when she found opportunity to — whisper without being observed. Then Bunsen gave her a look that sald. “Go as far as you like,” for straights had been pretty good that evening. and the pot. after the way it | _ Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Grocerics. Famous Lovers of Cats. — | A few people of considerable mind | have always known how to treat the cat | with honor. It is, perhaps, hardly neces- | sary to repeat the ancient story of Mo- | hammed—how, rising from his seat and , fearful of awaking the cat that was sleep- ing on his sleeve, cut off that part of | his garment and left her undisturbed. Richelieu, also, found pleasure and re- lief in the society of cats, yet he can be rded as only incompletely a cat lover. kittens they a; to him, and | as kittens only. He to keep a fam- lily of them in his study until they arrived lata certain age; but when they were three months old he had them taken away, and replaced by others that were younger. Moncrieff also loved cats, and wrote about them, as did Baudelaire; and Hoffmann, and Gautier, and Edgar Allan Poe.—From the late Arthur Tom- son’s “An Artist on the Cat in Art” in July Century. The Elevator Man's Joke. Hobbs—I guess the elevator is out of order. What is that sign on the door? Dobbs—The elevator man must be a bit of a wag. It says. “Please pardon me for not rising." —Boston Transcript. She Got It. He (time 11:30 p. m.)—And you wii think of me when | am gone: Nhe (suppressing a yawm—I'll try to if you'll ever give me an opportunity Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands do likewise.—Life, Groceries. had been sweetened, looked worth | =~ while. Finally Goitt called ber. “All I've got is three ladies.” he said in a tone of polite inquiry, laying down his hand. “Well. | have a straight,” gurgled Mrs. Bunsen. *“See—queen. king, ace, deuce, tray.” Bunsen shot her a glance that told her something was amiss before any- body had time to say a word. “Why, the ace comes after the king, doesn't it?" she inquired. “And doesn’t the two-spot come after the ace and the three-spot after the two-spot? I'd just llke to know why that isn't a straight.” Bunsen watched Goitt rake in the pot and didn't say anything—not just COF have found a new an buy the A Perplexing Inquiry. 18 cent grade. In a New York furniture store a young engaged pair were looking at mahogany tables for the nest they were about to furnish. As the clerk was do- ing his best to make a sale the young woman’ turned to her betrothed and 20 cent goods. Perhaps she'll give it to us.” Sechler & Company When goods advance on the market the retail price usualiy follows. But in regard to the recent advance in Coffees we have not followed the ordinary course, either by marking up the Jrice or reducing the more favorable market in which to goods and maintain the high standard of our leaders at 18c, 20c and 25 cents per pound. If you are using a Coffee at 20 cents per pound fry our If you are paying 25 cents for your Coffee fry our Or if you are buying at 30 cents try the high grade goods we sell at 25 cents per pound. 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. FEE quality. We The clerk hastened to expound the | Sechler & Bush House Block, It was sixty seconds before he could | Company, 55-1 - Bellefonte Pa., account for the furious blushes of his | betrothed and the uncontrollable mer- riment of the clerk.~New York World. ' i ———— smn i Hypnotic Triumph. | A doctor related the following story: | The Pennsylvania State College. “1 bad a patient who was very ill and | who ought to have gone to a warmer ! climate, but whose means were insuffi- | cient, so I resolved to try what hyp- | notism would do for him. 1 bad a' large sun painted on the ceiling of his room and by suggestion induced bim | to think it was the sun which would | cure him. The ruse succeeded. and | he was getting better rapidly when | one day on my arrival 1 found he was | IF YOU WISH TO BECOME dead.” A Chemist “Did it fail, after all, then?" asked | : te AOS Beer An Engineer “No.” replied the doctor; “be died of An Electrician sunstroke.”—Circle Magazine. | | Made Him Feel Quite at Home. A tourist in the Welsh mountains who had been caught in a violent rain- | storm and who after much difficulty | had succeeded in making his way toa 1 TUITION IS FREE TAKING EFFECT IN SEPT. 1900, E . Greek Languages and res; on his good fortune when he was ask- | ed by the man of the house to stay for lB Me Me. Be Me Be OM Pl. 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Iu the fading light she mistook the stranger for her busband and gave him a thump on Ct the head with the book. remarking, cam “That's for asking the man to stay ali night.” kL h 55-314t Grange Exhibition. 37th ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AND EXHIBITION Of the Patrons of Husbandry of Central Penna., GRANGE PARK, CENTRE HALL, PA. INCLUSIVE. fr Exhibition Opens ber Central Peinsylvania; DE DE umber 1h iv. purposes. gel Sila iments, rd pi an i Md puGly Ta ! Leonard Rhone, Ch. Yeagers Shoe Store Oxfords and Low Shoes REDUCED Everything----All Styles, All Kinds and All Sizes at a Big Reduction. Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA. LYON & CO. We have just received a full line of Fall and Winter DRESS GOODS We are showing all the new shades in Mossalines, Plain Silks for Waists, Changeable Silks in all shades—in fact the handsomest lot of Fall and Winter Goods we have ever had. Also a full line of Persian Bands and all-overs to match. Gloves and Mit- tens, Blankets, Comfortables, Under- wear, from the cheapest to the best. SHOES. Also a full line of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes. We are headquar- ters for Children’s School Shoes from 98c up. Men's Shoes from $1.50 up. Boy's School Shoes from 98c up. A full line of early Fall Coat Suits for Ladies and Misses. Come in and see all these new goods. LYON & COMPANY, Allegheny St. 47-12 Bellefonte, Pa.
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