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Bellefonte, Pa., November 11, 1910.
One Was Enough. :
The British academy once had print-
ed n few copies of an important work
for presentation to some foreigners
who, from their prominence in the sci-
entific world, were best entitled to be
honored with the gift. Professor Airy.
the astronomer royal, was requested
$c make a selection of the names. A
few days after be had sent in his list
he was informed by the secretary of
the admirnity that “my lords” were
struck by the number of unknown
names included and that they wished
to mmke aun inquiry on the subject.
Airy usked the secremury for some
specifications as to the names referred
to.
“Well, as an example,” said the sec-
retary. “here is the name of Professot
C. F. Gauss of Gottingen. Who is he?”
“Gauss is one of the greatest mathe.
maticians of the age and stands among |
the two or three most eminent masters
fn physical astronomy now living.
Who else do you wish to know about?”
“No one else. That will do,” replied
the secretary.
What Man Owes to Birds.
“It should be realized,” said a nat
uralist, “that without birds to hold ie
check the insects vegetable life soon
would cease and life for man would
become impossible upon the earth
Birds are nature's check to the amaz
ing power of insects to increase. II
insect life were allowed free course It
would soon overpower plant life, and
therefore animal life, including that ot
man, would be impossible. This Is ar
astounding conclusion, but it Is the
conclusion of science, If the birds
were gone very soon the leaves would
disappear from the trees, and the limbs
would be festooned with the webs ot
caterpillars or with masses of thelr
nests. These would move from tree to
tree, increasing by the million as they
advanced. In the course of a few
seasons there would be no trees. In
the fields other species of insects would
destroy the grass and the grain and
all vegetable life, and the ground
would be as if a sen of devouring
mouths had passed over it.”
Laziness.
“Laziness Is responsible for too
much of the misery we see about us.”
sald a clergyman. “It is all very well
to blame alcohol for this misery, to
blame oppression and injustice, but
to what heights might we not all have
climbed but for our laziness? We are
too much like the supernumerary in
the drama,” he went on, “who had to
enter from the right and say. ‘My lord.
the carriage waits.”
“Lock here, super. said the stage
manager one wight. ‘I want you to
come on from the left instead of the
right after this, and 1 want you to
transpose your speech. Make it run
hereafter, “The carriage waits, m,
ford.”""'
“The super pressed his hand to his |
brow.
“More study,
groaned.”
more study! he
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The Dragon Tree. |
The dragon tree of Tenerife is per-
haps the strangest vegetable in the
world. It is thought to be a kind of
glant asparagus, whose dead branches
serve as a support for the crowns.
New roots as they come into bein
encircle and conceal the original stem,
which Is far away Inside, and the
roots which become detached from the
stem may be seen hanging withered in
the upper tree. The trunk is generally |
hollow, and in the case of an old tro
which was destroyed in 1867 ther»
was a spacious chamber which had!
served the natives as a temple for gen- |
erations. The tree was forty-eight’
feet around and ninety-five feet high |
and is supposed to have been origi:
nally watered with dragon's blood,
which is the name now given to the |
sap. This is a regular article of com- |
merce. — |
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aN Worked Too Well.
A hdtel proprietor, noticing that
Some «f his customers were evidently
trying ¥» eat their suppers In the |
~shartest possible time, lest they should |
miss the boat which was waiting at the |
wharf, thought it would be funny to
frighten them. Accordingly be wen:
into a back room and gave a remark-
. ably perfect Imitation of a steamboat’s
whistle. The joke worked well. The
nen heard the sound aud rushed to
the boat. The joker laughed long and
foud until suddenly it occurred to him
that the men bad gone off without '
paying for their suppers. Then he |
+ stopped langhing.—london Town and
Country Joygpaal.
2 It Didn't Fall Out.
“] gee your hair is falling out, sir.”
remarked the hairdresser, who was
getting ready to work the hair tonic
fdea on the customer.
“You don't see anything of the sort.”
rejoined his victim. “What you see
is the sequel to a falling out between
Mrs. Codgers and myself.” —London
Answers.
The Tailor's Patron Saint.
The tailor's saint Is St. John the
Baptist. but why we do not know, for,
as far as sacred writ informs us, “his
clothing was of camel's hair and a
leather girdle about his loins." —Tallor
and Cutter
Cheering Her Up.
“I hear you are going to marry Char
ley.”
“Yes: he asked me last evening”
. Charley i aa
“Lat me di i ie a fer | can't or won't talk.—St. Louls Globe. Position, not in mere Intellect. -Beech-
, Democrat. Bi
is all right
fellows 1 was ever engaged to”
British Savings Clubs.
The working people of England are
of agencies being created to enable |
them to save money *hat they may
of letting school children Lave a shil-
ling’s worth of sweets for a Christmas
treat. There is hardly a workshop of
any importance in London without its
workmen's saving club, besides which
there are many dividing clubs carried
on at public houses, und the deposits
amount in the aggregate to a very
large sum. The withdrawals begin in |
the early days of December, and it is .
not uncommon for the banks to pay
out £300 ($1.460) to £500 ($2.423) to a |
single club, and the problem of storing '
the money is one of some difficulty.
As the amounts have to be divided ;
among many people they are wanted '
in cash, and in some cases the propor- |
tion of gold, silver and copper is speci-
fied.
Easter Island.
Easter island is a lonely Pacific islet,
forty-seven square miles in area, en-
tirely volcanic and containing several
extinct craters, some of which are
. more than a hundred feet high, dis-'
covered by Roggeveen on Easter Sun-
' day, 1722. Little is known concerning
the curious remains which have made
the island famous. They consist of
more than 3500 rudely carved stone
statues and busts, varying ir height
from three to seventy feet and said
to be portraits of famous men, not
idols. There are also hundreds of
stone houses on the island, with paint-
ed interiors and incised tablets which,
strange to say. have never been de-
ciphered. Between 1860 and 1862 the
population, by reason of pelyandry
and emigration, dwindled to 150 souls,
and in 1803 most of these were carried
off by the Peruvians to work guano,
The few inhabitants left are fair haired
Polynesians. Since 1888S the island has
been a Chilean convict station.—New
York Telegram.
Then and Now.
Act 1.
Tilkins—How is business, Wilkins?
Wilkins—Can’t make it go. At this
rate I shall be bankrupt in another
month. [ don't seem to have any head
for business.
Tilkins—No: you haven't. But you
have a good start, und if you'll prom-
ise to let me run things I'll go in with
you as partner.
Wilkins—Done. A friend in need is
a friend indeed.
Act IL.—Ten Years Later.
Guest—What a magnificent place you
have—everything that wealth could
buy or heart long for! You have been
wonderfully prosperous, Mr. Wilkins.
Mr. Wilkins (sadly)—True, but, after
all, 1 get only half the profits of my
great establishment. 1 tell you, my
friend, the mistake of my life was tak-
ing a partner.—Londou Scraps.
Fear of Premature Burial.
The fear of premature burial. which
prompted the late Lord Burton to di-
rect by his will that his heart should
be removed from his body, has caused
many well known men and women to
order a surgical operation to be per-
formed upon their bodics. Harriet
Martineau !eft her doctor £10 to am-
putate her head. and Lady Burton di- |
rected that her heart should be pierced
with a needle. The late Kdmund
Yates left instructions that his jugular’
. veln should be severed, with a provi-
sion that a fee of 20 guineas should be
paid for the purpose. Literary persons
appear to have been particularly
afraid of premature burial. Bishop
Berkeley, Lord Lytion, Hans Auder-
sen and Wilkie Collins all took meas-
ures to protect themselves from it.— |
Westminster Gazette, }
Locations of Promotion.
Elzena, aged four, reveled in kinder-
garten lore and each day imparted to
her young mother the many interest- |
ing things that the sweet faced teach- |
er had told them. Among the vicls- |
situdes of school life to be encountered |
was that of vaccination, which was |
new to the little one. After much ex- {
plaining and reassuring this difficulty |
was safely passed. A few weeks later
she returned one day from kinder
garten In a whirl of excitement. ex- |
claiming: “Mother. mother, I'm going |
to be promoted! Mother, will 1 be |
promoted on my arm or my leg?'— |
New York Times. |
German Way of Serving Asparagus.
When living in Germany we noticed |
that the asparagus served there was |
unsually tender and of n much more
delicate flavor than that which we got
in America. We learned that the Ger- |
Mrs. Langtry and myself were acting.
It so happened
that on the night it was produced I
was not acting. So 1 strolled round to
Hopper's theater and suggested to him
that I should take the part myself that
The idea of parodying oneself
night.
seemed to me rather original. He con-
sented, nnd on | went just in dress
clothes, as the character called for. It
was a great success, all except the
identification. 1 lost that. Lut not
| enough. The London Times came out
the next morning with the following:
“ ‘The resemblance to Mr. Hawtrey
was certainly remarkable and would
have been more so had it not been for
, the pronounced American accent.’
“That was the first and last time I
have ever been accused of a twang.”"—
New York Tribune.
Cixteenth Century Meals.
Judgin;: from a passage in Harrison's
“Description of Britain," breakfast
eating In the sixteenth century was
held to denote effeminacy. ‘“‘Hereto-
fore,” he writes. “there hath been
more time spent in eating and drink-
ing than commonly Is in these days:
for whereas of old we had breakfasts
in the forenoon, beverages or nuntions,
after dinner. and thereto reare suppers
when it was time to go to rest, now
these od repasts, thanked be Ged, are
: verie well left, and ech one (except
here and there some young hungrie
stomach that cannot fast till dinner
time) contenteth himself with dinner
and supper onlie. The nobilitie, gen:
trie and students ordinarilie go to
dinner at 11 before noon and to sup-
per at 5 or between 5 and € at after
noon. The merchants dine and sup
seldom before 12 at noon and « at
night, especialie in London. The hnus-
bandmen dire also at high noon and
. sup at 7 or 8, but out of the tearine, in
our universities, the scholars dine at
10.”
Saved by His Wit.
The French author Martainville
was a royalist and did not hesitate
to attack the French revolution and
its authorities. Presently, of course,
he was summoned to appear before
the revolutionary tribunal, with the
terrible Fouquier at its head. The rev-
olutionary tribunals at that time did
not hesitate to send everybody to the
guillotine who had ventured to attack
them. Martainville expected to go
with the rest of the victims.
your name?" asked the reveclutionar:
judge. “Martainville,” sald the younz
author. “Martaiuvi'le! execlained the
judge. “You are de éiving us and try-
ing to hide your rank. You are an
aristocrat, and your name Is De Mar- |
talaville.” “Citizen president” ex.
claimed the young man, “I am here to
be shortened. not to be lengthened!
Leave me my name! A true French.
man loves a witticizm above all things,
and the tribunal was so much pleased
by Martainville's grim response that it
spared his life.
The Krakatoa Eruption.
Perhaps the most remarkable vel-
canic eruption known was that which
took place in August, 1883, at the is-
land of Krakatoa, in the strait of
Sunda. Streams of volcanic dust were
thrown seventeen miles high, and more
than a cubic mile of material was ex-
pelled from the volcanic crater. The
alr waves started by the eruption trav-
eled around the earth seven times.
The noise was heard at Macassa, 969
miles away: at Borneo, 1,116 miles dis-
| tant: in Western Australia. 1.700 miles
away, and even at Rodagues, distant
more than 2.900 miles. The dust and
powdered pumice thrown out of the
crater made the entire circuit of the
earth before settling down and were
the cause of the strange sunsets that
were observed for many months. —New
York Amerlecan,
A Crusher.
A consequential! little man entered
the commercial room of a big hotel not
long back and gave a vigorous pull at
the beil. As no one answered he rang
again more loudly than before. A
maidservant then came in, and the fol-
lowing colloquy took place:
Servant—Who rang that bell?
Little Man (making most of his
height)—I did.
Servant (scornfully)—And who lifted
you up to it?—London Telegraph.
Their Troubles.
“You've got no grounds to envy me.”
“What 1: |
mans do not consider asparagus fit to said the millionaire to the beggar.
eat unless the outside skin is scraped | “I’ve got just as many troubles as you
from each stalk before cooking. This have"
sounds like slow work, but if a sharp “No doubt yer right, boss,” said the
knife is used it can be done quite rap- | beggar humbly, “but the difficulty with
idly and is well worth the trouble.~! me is I ain't got nothin’ else.”
Good Housekeeping. : ——————
Didn't Pass It.
Told You So. | A missionary in Trinidad once nsked
“It's the unexpected that always | a negro sitting in idleness by the road-
happens.” ' side how he managed to pass the time.
Somebody a! | “I sit in de sun. massa. and let de
, time pass me.” was the quaint and
' philosophical reply.
The Poor Doctor. Tommy's Choice.
Hawkins—So you sent for a doctor? | Fond Mother—Tommy. darling. this
Does he think you will be out soon? | 18 your birthday. What would you like
Robbins—I Imagine so. He sald he! to do? Tommy, Darling (after a mo-
wished 1 had sent for him sooner.— ment’s reflection)—! think IT should en-
Puck. A Seine the baby spanked!-Parls
Silence is too much praised. Nine a
men out of ten wil! shun you If you | The highest manhood resides In dis:
“Oh. 1 don't know.
ways claims to have predicted 1t."-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A King's Bank.
The practice of hiding money in all
manner of out of the way corners is
by no means modern. In the old days,
according to “Gleanings After Time,”
secret receptacles were often made in
the bedsteads and contributed both to
safety and romance. On Aug. 21, 1495,
Richard 111. arrived at Leicester, His
servants had preceded him with the
running wardrobe, and in the best
chamber of the Blue Boar a ponder
ous four post bedstead was set up. It
was richly carved, gilded and deco-
rated and bad a double bottom eof
boards. Richard slept in it that night
After his defeat and death on Bos-
worth field it was stripped of its rich
hangings. but the heavy and cumber-
some bedstead was left at the Blue
Boar. In the reign of Elizabeth, when
the hostess was shaking the bed. sbe
observed a plece of gold of ane'-nt
coinage fall on the floor. This led to
a careful ex:muination, when the double
bottom was discovered, upon lifting a
portion of which the interior was
found to Le filled with gold. part
colned in the reign of Richard IIL
and the rest of earlier times.
Naming a Kansas River.
Practically all the streams in Kansas
were named by Indians and carry those
names to this day. though in an Angli-
cized form.
The Neosho, the largest stream in
southeast Kansas, has Its own little
story. The Osage Indians at one time
lived in Miszouri, and when they begun
talking of trading their lands In that
state and moving to southern Kansas a
party was sent out to look the country
over and make a report on it. It was
in the summer time and very hot and
dry. Coming over the prairie northeast
of Humboldt, they had a long way to
travel without water.
“When they arrived at the river”
sald an C-'vego man, “an Indian rode
down the sloping bank into the water.
But, to his surprise, the horse stepped
right off into deep water, and the horse
and Indian went in all over. As the
aborigine clambered back on the bank
he muttered, ‘Wugh Neosho! This in
plain English means water pocket. or
water hole, and the name clung to the
stream ever afterward.” —Hutchinson
News.
Living thy Simple Life.
A number of men gathered in the
smoking car of a train from Little
Rock to another point in Arkansas
were talking of the food best calcu-
lated to sustain health,
One Arkansan, a stout. florid man,
with short gray hair and a self satis-
fled air, was holding forth in great
style.
“Look at me.” he exclaimed—*“never
a day's sickness in my life, and all
due to simple focd! Why, gents, from
the time | was twenty to when I
reached forty years I lived a regular
life. None of these effeminate delica-
cles for me. no late hours! Every
day, summer and winter, I went to
bed at 9: got up at 5: lived principally
on corned beef and corn bread: work-
ed hard, gents, worked hard, from 8 to
i 1; then dinner, plain dinner, then an
! hour's exercise and then”—
| “Excuse me. Bill" Interrupted a
stranger who had up to this refrained
from entering the discussion, “but
what was you in for?”—Minneapoli:
Journal.
Very Nicely English.
This curious Bengali English was
used to advertise a circus in India:
“Some horse will make very good
tricks. The klown will come and talk
with that horses therefore audience
will laugh itself very much. The lady
will walk on horses back and horse is
jumping very much also. The klown
will make a joking words and lady
will become to angry therefore klown
will run himself away. One man wiil
make so tricks of trapeze audience wil!
fraid himself very much. One lady
will make himself so bend. then every-
body he will think. he is the rubber
lady. This is the very grand display.
This is the very better gymnastics.
Cne man will walk on wire tight, he is
doing very nicely because he is pro-
fessor of that.”
Tha Sccret.
“I say.” said Berkey to his wife yes-
terday at dinner, “you didn't say any-
thing to any one about what I was
telling you the night before last, did
you? That's a secret.”
“A secret! Why. | didn't know it
was a secret,” she replied regretfully.
“Well, did you tell it? [| want to
know.”
“Why, no: 1 never thcught of it
since. [I didn’t know it was a secret.”
—Boston Globe.
through Kew Lunatic asylum, Victoria,
one day, and. coming opposite the clock
in the corridor, one of them, looking
quickly at his watch, said, “Is that
clock right?
“No, you idiot.” said a patient stand-
ing by. “It wouldn't be in here I? it
were right.”
Unreasonable.
Mrs. Sharpe (severely)—Norah, I can
find only seven of these plates. Where
are the other five?"
Cook (in surprise)—"Sure, mum, don’t
ye make no allowance for ordinary wear
an’ tear?"
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| Bzamine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA,
| safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
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i The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Yeagers Shoe Store
WALDORF
$3.00 Shoes
For Men.
The Waldorf is the only shoe in the
world sold direct from maker to wear-
er and independent of the shoe ma-
chinery trust. This is the reason for
the very good value in the Waldorf
$3.00 Shoes. They are made in all
kinds of leather—Goodyear welts and
oak tanned soles. Every pair guaran-
teed.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
We are showing the largest line of Furs in town.
All the new shapes in Palerine, Shawls and Throws,
handsomely lined and trimmed in heads and tails,
black and colors. Muffs to match in the new Pillow
and Rug shapes at prices to suit every one.
Misses Fur Sets in all the new shapes, black and
lors.
Childrens Fur Sets in white and colors, all prices.
Coat and Suit Department.
Our Coat and Suit department has again received
the newest models. Every week we get the latest
Size models from one of the largest New York manu-
turers.
Silks, Messalines, Crepes and
Marquesettes.
Our line of Dress Silks, Messalines, Crepes and
Marquesettes was never so large as this season. All
the new colors and blacks, and a great many more
than we have space to tell about.
Wool Fabrics.
The Woolen Dress Weaves, in heavy and light
weights, is just as complete as any department.
Trimmings. Trimmings.
Everythi in All-over Nets and Bindings to
match, in gold, silver, black and all the new shades.
Comfortables and Blankets.
Comfortables and Blankets to suit every one.
UNDERWEAR.
Men, Women and Childrens heavy Cotton and
Woolen Underwear. No to say more. A
at our store will mean the assortment to select
from, and at the lowest prices.
LYON & COMPANY.
Allegheny >t. 4312 Bellefonte, Pa.