“Demoreatic atcha THEY EAT NO BREAD.
, ~~ Places Where the Poorer People Have
to Use Substitutes.
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, Pa., January 6, 1911.
Write to a
BUSINESS LETTERS.
Man Just as You Would
Talk to Him at Your Desk.
LAWS OF WARS.
The Code Now In Use Among All the
Civilized Nations.
The “laws of war" as at present
formulated by the civilized nations
forbid the use of poison against an en-
emy; murder by treachery, as, for ex-
ple, assuming the uniform or dis-
the flag of a foe; the murder
those who have surrendered, wheth-
upon conditions or at discretion:
tions that no quarter will be
given to an enemy; the use of such
‘arms or projectiles as will cause un-
necessary pain or suffering to an en-
emy: the abuse of a flag of truce to
gain information concerning an en-
emy’'s positions: all unnecessary de-
{
There are regions wherein the poor- = Business letter writing is no longer
er classes or peasantry eat little or no merely “correspondence,” but “litera-
bread. Baked loaves of bread are ture,” and the correspondent who for-
practically unknown in many parts of merly wasted his precious breath on
southern Austria and Italy and
throughout the agricultural districts of
Roumania.
It is said that in the village of the
Oberstelermark, not far from Vienna,
bread is never seen, the staple food
from ground beech nuts, taken at
breakfast with fresh or curdled milk,
at dinner with broth or fried lard and
with milk again for supper. This
is also known as heiden and takes
place of bread not only In the A
trian district named, but In Carin
and in many parts of the Tyrol.
In northern Italy the peasants aff
a substitute for bread called polenta,
Eggs
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such Inanities as “Yours received and
contents duly noted” is now relegated
to the “old school” class, and unless
: he is willing to adopt the new rules of
he is likely to change
straight to the subject at Issue
y, without frills, even eliminat-
| ing the time worn advice, “Awaiting
our early reply,” and closing without
i absurdity of “Begging to remain.”
{| “Write to a man exactly as you
“
a porridge made of lLoiled grain. Po- | would talk to him if he were sitting at
struction of property, whether public
or private.
lenta is not, however, allowed to |
your desk,” is the maxim of one of
They also declare that only fortified
places shall be besieged; open cities or
villages not to be subject to siege or
bombardment; that public buildings of
whatever character. whether belonging
to church or state, shall be spared;
that plundering by private soldiers or
their officers shall be considered inad-
missible: that prisoners shall be treat-
“granulate,” like Scotch porridge or | the best authorities on letter writing
like the Austriaii sters. but is boiled ' In Chicago. By eliminating useless
into a solid pudding, which is cut up | phrases having no bearing on the sub-
and portioned out with a string. It is | ject the business man not only saves
eaten cold as often as it is hot and is | his own time in dictating, but that of
in every sense the Italian's daily his stenographer in transcribing tie
bread,
A variation of polenta called mama.
liga Is said to be the favorite food of
the poorer classes in Roumania. Ma-
notes. By the old method of letter
| writing tke opening and closing of
| letters contained almost five lines of
| useless “form” matter which would
ed with common humanity; that the | malign is like polenta in that it Is | average on 100 letters just 500 lines of
personal effects and private property | made of boiled grain, but it is unlike | superfluous effort.—Chicago Tribune.
of prisoners, except their arms and!
ammunition, shall be respected; that |
the population of an enemy's country
|
shall be considered exempt from par- | tinct, after the fashion of oatmeal |
ticipation in the war, unless by hostile |
acts they provoke the ill will of the en- |
emy.
Personal and family honor and the |
religious convictions of an invaded peo- |
ple must be respected by the invaders |
and all pillage by regular troops or |
their followers strictly forbid
New York Herald.
Ru |
KEEPING TAP ON THE CROPS |
The Way the Agricultural Depariment |
Gets Its Information.
The details of the comprehensive sys-
tem employed by the department of
agriculture in gathering the crop in- |
—
the latter in one important respect—
the grains are not allowed to settle
into a solid mass, but are kept dis-
porridge.—~New York Herald.
COMPRESSED ICE.
Sinks In Water and Crumbles
Powder When Warmed.
All know that ordinary ice will float.
Into
This relative lightness of ice with re-
spect to water is due to expansion of
the water at the moment of freezing.
If water Is frozen under immense
pressure it seems that this expansion
is prevented and ice heavier than wa- |
ter is produced.
G. Tamman hes prepared this modi-
fication, which he calls Ice IIL, as
follows: He compressed water to 3,000
formation from all over the country | kilograms (5,614 pounds) and cooled
are interesting. There are 30,000 it In solid carbon dioxide snow and
township correspondents scattered all | finally in liyuld air. Under these con-
over the Union, whose duty it is to go ditions a colorless, transparent ice is
carefully over the territory and submit | formed. It is much denser than ordi
_each month concrete information as to | nary ice and heavier than water; con-
the condition of all kinds of crops. In sequently it sinks when placed In wa-
addition to this branch, 3,000 “county | ter. Ice III is very unstable, and on
correspondents” send in separate re- | slight warming it swells out and
ports from those of the township men. breaks up into a dense white powder.
A state agent makes a further report | The volume of the resulting powder
direct from his agents, and an organ- | is apparent!y four to eight times that
ization in direct communication with | of the original ice. This powder form-
the department, comprising seventeen { ed by the breaking up of the dense !
traveling “field agents.” go about the | form is nothing more than ordinary |
country and make separate reports for = ice in the form of fine crystals, whieh, |
groups of states. Special cotton cor- | of course, on further warming melt at |
respondents are also employed to fur- zero degrees centigrade. i
nish accurate information concerning | Experiments on Ice III. show that it |
the cotton yield. Five different repor 3 | is mpossible to obtain it by separa-
are sent to Washington each month | tion from water at atmospheric pres-
by five different sets of correspondents, | sure and then suddenly cooling. There
i
This safeguards the government crop | would never be a possibility of this |
reports for accuracy in local crop re- | unstable form of solid water being
ports and keeps the great crop account | formed in nature.—New York Tribune.
|
THE CRESCENT.
Legend of Its Adoption as an Emblem
i by the Turks.
| The crescent has been known since
| time out of memory. In ancient my-
| thology it decorated the foreheads of
| Diana and of Astarte, the Syrian Ve-
{ nus. In the days of Rome's greatest
| glory the ladles wore it as an orna-
ment in their hair.
Since the foundation of Constanti-
nople, the ancient Byzantium, it bas
been the emblem of the city and as
such adorns its walls and public bufld-
ings, besides being stamped on its
coins and postage. The legend which
accounts for its universal adoption in
Turkey, and Constantinople in par-
ticular, Is as follows:
Philip of Macedon laid siege to the
city in the year 340 B. C. He chose a
night of unusual darkness for the pro-
posed assault, but was foiled by the
moon suddenly breaking from behind
a cloud. In commemoration of this
providential deliverance the crescent
was adopted as the symbol of the city.
The Mohammedan sultans were slow
to assume this emblem until some one
mentioned that it was the symbol of
increasing greatness, power changing
as rapidly as the phases of the moon.
—Westminster Gazette.
Federal Homestead Laws.
The federal homestead laws begin
| with the act of 1862, now a part of the
United States revised statutes, Their
policy is to give portions of the pub-
lic lands to those who will settle, cul-
tivate and make permanent homes
upon them. Any person who is the
head of a family or who is twenty-one
years of age and is a citizen of the
and cost estimates for the millions of '
American farmers. These records are |
sent to the agricultural department, Of- |
ficials of the Lureau of statistics and a |
board go over all the five reports from |
five distinct groups of correspondents, !
and from all the figures a crop report !
estimate is distributed to 70,000 post- |
offices throughout the country every |
month.—National Magazine.
The Electric Fan.
Back in the early eighties Dr. 8, 8.
‘Wheeler, an electrical engineer of New
York, was experimenting with a small
electric motor. In the course of his ex-
periments the dector conceived the
idea that steamboats might be run
with electricity if the propellers could
be directly connected to high speed
electric motors, doing away with all
the gears then in use in steam propul-
sion. With this idea in mind he had a
small screw propeller constructed and
fastened it to the armature shaft of
his sinall motor. To his surprise the
experiment resulted in a fine breeze of
cooling air which more than delighted
the experimenter, for the day was de-
cidedly hot. It is needless to add that
the experiments with screw propellers
ended right there. and the engineer
took up the study of the electric fan,
with the result that he soon perfected
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seem to have been a mixture of beer
and buttermilk.—London Chronicle.
———
When you make one mistake don't
make another by trying to lie out of It.
The Fateful Message.
Hubby—Didn't I telegraph you not to
ng you? Wifey—
could not help it, Frank. She insisted
on coming after she’d read your tele-
‘gram,
Genuine benevolence is not station-
lary, but peripatetic. It goes about
doing good.—~Nevins.
A Prosaic Interpretation.
Professor Brander Matthews of Co-
lumbia in one of his brilliant addresses
on the drama said of an unimaginative
and prosaic dramatist:
“He it was, I am sure, who in his
youth on being asked in examination
what Shakespeare meant by the phrase
| ‘sermons in stones’ wrote in reply:
“ ‘When passing by a tombstone you
may learn the name and the dates of
birth and death of the departed one
and also from the inscription a valu-
able moral iesson from his or her life.
Walking along a road you may see
from the milestones the number of
miles to the nearest towns and thus ac-
quire geographical information. Heaps
of stones by the roadside indicate that
repairs are to take place and so indl-
cate a lesson in mneatness.’ "—Detroit
Free Press.
An Author's Insight.
There is no surer mark of genius
than the intuitive insight into charac-
ters and social conditions of which the
author has noc personal experience.
“What does Ben know of dukes?”
asked homely old Isaac Disraell when
he heard the title of his son's latest
novel. Trollope wrote Inimitably of
bishops and deans when he had never
been in a cathedral close in his life.
Young Disraell wrote so well about
the great ones of the earth whom he
had never seen that the critics busied
themselves in finding “keys” to “Vi-
vian Grey” and “The Young Duke.”—
London Saturday Review.
A Touch of Family Life.
When the country youth proposed to
the city girl he received the conven-
tional assurance that she would be his
sister. It happer-d that this youth
had sisters at how. and knew exactly
his privileges. S. ne kissed her. At
this juncture she availed herself of the
sisterly right to call cut to father that
brother was teasing her. Father re-
tion was dissolved by mutual consent.
—Judge.
Only That.
“I don't know whether I ought to
recognize him here in the city or not.
Our acquaintance at the seashore was
very slight.”
“You promised to marry him, didn’t
you?”
“Yes, but that was all.”"—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The only fallure a man ought to fear
is failure in cleaving to the purpose he
sees to be best.—George Eliot.
United States or who has filed his
declaration of intention to become such
may acquire a tract of upappropriated
public land, not exceeding 160 acres,
on condition of settlement, cultivation
and continuous occupancy as a home
by him for the period of five years
and the payment of certain moderate
fees. It is expressly declared that no
lands acquired under this statute shall
in any event become liable to any
debt contracted prior to the issuing of
the patent therefor by the government
to the settler.—~New York American.
Cheap Family History.
Even in political defeat there are
compensations. A Washington heights
man who aspired to office tells of one
that he discovered.
“Must have cost you a pile of money
to run, didn't it?" a friend asked.
“About $1,600, but still 1 came out
$400 ahead.”
“How?” said the friend.
“On genealogical research. My wife
has a socletr bee in her bonnet and
had about ag ced to pay a man $2,000
to look up my family history, but
when I became a candidate my oppo-
nents did that for me and saved us
the money.”"—New York Times.
Eight Lions.
There are eight lions known
world over—the lion of St. Mark's
base
much curiosity.
Long—In what direction?
Short—Oh, she was continuously ask-
ing me when I was going to pay my
board bill.—Chicago News.
The Next Question.
“Dora's invited to a swell party,”
sald the mother.
“How much will the gown cost?
asked the father, who knew what was
coming. —Detroit Free Press.
Not a Freshman,
Caller—I didn’t know your son was
at college. Is this his freshman year?
Mrs. Bunderby—Ob, no, indeed! He's
& sycamore.—Boston Transcript.
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{ dangerous lunatic.
Saved by Her Voice.
When traveling to Paris with some
other ladies on ome occasion Mme.
Grisi had a thrilling adventure. At a
| small wayside station a man entered
the carriage. and it soon became ev'-
dent from his threatening gestures
and eccentric behavior that he was a
Though her con-
panions were panic stricken. Mme.
Grisl retained complete presence of
mind and with the utmost composure
began to sing. At once the maniac
was quiet. His whole attention was
riveted on that magnificent voice. and
he remained the most appreciative of
listeners until the train reached the
next station, where he was secured. It
transpired subsequently that he was
a maniac with homicidal tendencies
who had escaped from an asylum.
Well Settled.
Riggs—Did your wife's father settle
anything on you when you married
his daughter? Briggs—You bet he did.
He settled himself on us, and we can't
get rid of him.—Boston Transcript.
Fashion's Whirl.
“How long do we stay at Jupiter
Junction, John?"
“Twenty minutes, my dear. You
won't need over two gowns.”—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
There is no beautifier of complexion
or form or behavior like the wish to
scatter joy and not pain around you.
Medical.
Cure Your Kid-
neys.
DO NOT ENDANGER LIFE WHEN A BELLE-
FONTE CITIZEN SHOWS YOU THE CURE.
Why will people continue to suffer
the agonies of kidney complaint, back-
ache, urinary disorders, lameness
headaches, languor, why allow them-
selves to become chronic invalids,
when a certain cure is offered them?
Doan's Kindey Pills is the remedy
to use, because it gives to the kidneys
the help they need to perform their
work.
If you have any, even one, of the
symptoms of kidney diseases, cure
yourself now, before diabetes, dropsy
of Bright's disease sets in. Read this
Bellefonte testimony:
William E. Haines Sunny Side St., Belle-
fonte, Pa., says: “The public statement
that I gave in favor of Doan's Kidney
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the cure they effeated in my case has been
permanent. In 1890 I began to suffer
from a lameness in my back, accompan-
ied by a dull, lingering ache in my loins
that made it hard for me to attend to my
work. I did not rest welland I was ata
loss to know what to do. After trying a
number of remedies without being bene-
fited I learned of Doan’s Kidney Pills and
got abox. They proved to be just the
remedy I required. removing my trouble
in a short time. I have been fully con-
vinced of the curative powers of this prep-
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THE CENTURY
In 1911
THE LIFE OF
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE. PA.
4719 MILL AT ROOPSBURG.
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exchanged for wheat.
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Room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 5l-1-1y.
— -at-Law,
in all the a Be Ea
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DX J. E. WARD, D. D, S., office door to
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Get the Best Meats.
, thin
JO
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
customers the fresh-
ing and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I alwavs have
— DRESSED POULTRY ——
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 43-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
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Coal and Wood.
EDWARD K. RHOADS
Mheroian: "tnd Dealer in
ANTHRACITE Axo BITUMINOUS
COALS
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
and other grains.
— BALED HAY AND STRAW ——
Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
KINDLING WOOD
by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yard,
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station.
js Telephone Cals: {SEINE lhe
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Children Cry for
Fletcher’s Castoria.