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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 | _
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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
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Or if you are buying at 30 cents try the high grade
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This is a severe test but we are very confident we can
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The clerk hastened to expound the |
Sechler &
Bush House Block,
It was sixty seconds before he could |
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account for the furious blushes of his |
betrothed and the uncontrollable mer-
riment of the clerk.~New York World. '
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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
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“Did it fail, after all, then?" asked | :
te AOS Beer An Engineer
“No.” replied the doctor; “be died of An Electrician
sunstroke.”—Circle Magazine. |
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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
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GAVE HIM A THUMP ON THE HEAD.
the night. After donning a suit of his
host's clothes, so that his own might
®e dried, he proceeded downstairs and
on his way met the mistress with a
big Bible in her hand. 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
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