Bellefonte, Pa., January 27, 1911. A Humble Hero. Every student of history remembers Captain Perry's dispatch after the bat- tle of Lake Erie, a sentence terse and yet glowing. “We bave met the en- emy, and they are vurs.” ‘Bvery one remembers the great and significant result of the fight, but few perhaps have heard of one humble worker who served his country just as truly there as if he had been on deck amid shot and shell, varning glory as well as the reward of a good con- science. Just as the ships were zoing into ac- tion the mate of the Lawrence said to Wilson Mays. who was ill and unfit for service: “Go below. Mays; you are too weak to be here.” “I can do something. sir,” was the stout reply. “What can you do?" “1 can sound the pump, sir, and let a | strong man go to the guns.” Then he sat down by the pump and thus released for active service a man who had more muscle, and when the fight was over there he was found with a bullet through his heart. Barred the Red Heels. Once actors used to say that they were going “to study a part for per formance;” now the saying is that one “gets up in a part,” which may be one of the reasons why there were once more studied performances than there are now. As an example of how much can be safely left to the inteiligence of even tried actors is the case of the Napoleonic play that Charles Frohman was once rehearsing. In the midst of the dress rehearsal an actress of sup- posed all around experience, cast for one of the Paris street denizens, one of the mob of revolutionists, was dis- covered gayly decked out in patent leather shoes with jolly red heels. “No, my child,” sald Mr. Frohman, “not red heels and a revolutionist too.” ' “But they look ever so much prettier and give color to the scene.” persisted the actress. “That may be,” continued Mr. Frohman, “but the mob did not wear red heeled shoes; get your color with a red handkerchief or from your makeup table, but not with red heels.” Successful Trap Shooting. Aim your gun a little above the shed protecting the traps. Give the call “pull.” Do not get rattled. Get your bird as it is going up or at its maxi. mum height and then fire, aiming | about six or eight inches ahead and a trifle below it. The tendency is al- ways to shoot too high, not allowing for the speed of the descent. Above all things fire, even if you know you are going to miss. There is nothing so or fatal to the poise as to allow a fairly thrown target to get al away without shooting at it at all. When calling “Pull” put some ginger into it. “Bark it,” an old trap shot used to say. Don't falter it. as though apologizing for being alive. It hurts your confidence and rattles the trap pullers. 1f you stand with your gun ready and mumble “Pull” three or four times before the target is thrown the chances are overwhelming that you will miss.—C. Q. Peters in Outing. Justice at All Hours. Despite their preference for a repub- lican form of government, the French are in some respects a conservative pation. A Paris contemporary discov- ered that one of the doors of the pa- lals de justice is left ajar throughout | the night. This door has never been shut since March 4, 1618, when Louls XIII. ordained that it should remain perpetually open “so that my subjects may be able to seek justice at all hours of the day and night” How- ever. an enterprising journalist who presented himself at the door in the | small hours of the morning was promptly ejected by a watchman. And when he quoted the ordinance of 1618 the reply was, “If you don't clear off you'll find yourself coming in by the prisoners’ door tomorrow.” A Financial Deadlock. “Who is that man who has been sit- ting behind the bar day after day?” inquired the stranger in Crimson Gulch. “That's Stagecoach Charley. He's in a peculiar predicament. He went to town last week an’ got his teeth fixed. Then he come here an’, bein’ broke, ran up a bill on the stren'th of his $7 worth of gold fillin’. Charley won't | submit to havin’ the nuggets pried out, an’ the proprietor won't let him git away with the collateral, an’ there you are.”’—Washington Star. The Trouble. “Have you explained the germ sys- tem to your children? Everything should be on a practical basis these “No,” replied the old fashioned citi- zen. “It seems inconsistent to tell ‘em not to believe in fairies and then try to get ‘em to believe in microbes." — Pittsburg Post. ————————— A Useful Reflection. The optimist was reciting some of the numerous articles in his creed. Finally he came to the end. “Oh, there is one more, after all.” he said. “On the days when | reflect how lit- tle I really amount to | cheer myself by remembering how much I expect of others.” —————————————— Her Age. “1 understand that heiress Jobbins | married was rather old. What was her age?” “] guess as far as Jobbins was con- | cerned it was heritage’ —Baltimore American. A Bird's Barbed Wire Fences. There may be seen along the road- sides in Central America a brown wren about the size of a canary which builds a nest out of all proportion to its ap- (arent needs. It selects a small tree with horizontal branches growing close or so high with thick sides of inter- woven thorns. A covered passageway is then made from the nest to the end of the platform in as crooked a man- ner as possible. Across the outer end, as well as at short intervals alonz the inside of thix tunnel, are placed cun- ning little fences of thorns with in space enough for the owners to puss through. On going out this opening is closed by the owner by placiug thorns across the gateway. and thus the safety of the eggs or young is us sured.—Brooklyn Eagle. ———————————— Penknives. Nowadays we use penknives princi- pally for sharpening pencils. There wns a time, however, when they were used primarily for doing something else, They used to be just what their name would indicate—they were *“‘pen- ! knives.” The ancients used pens | made of goose quills, just as our fore- fathers did up to about a hundred years ago. The quill pen was made by hand. of course, and whenever the point of one would break or lose its elasticity it was up to the penman to put-a new point or “nib” on the quill. This was done with a small knife, and hence we have the word that has out- lived the quill pen a hundred years— “penknife.” In the olden times the penknife was a necessary accessory of the writing desk. When the clasp- knife came in the smaller sizes took their name from the little desk knife, while the bigger ones were called “jackknives,” “jack” signifying any- thing masculine or big and strong.— | Kansas City Star. Saw It In a Dream. For many years ivory manufacturers | were trying to devise a machine for | turning out a billiard ball as nearly | perfect as possible and at the same | time avoiding waste. Among those who strove to perfect such a machine | was Mr. John Carter of the firm of | John Carter & Son. well known ivory | manufacturers of half a century ago. | whose premises will stand in Bishops- | gate. One night after Mr. Carter had | been striving to solve the problem for | some time he suddenly awoke his wife | by shouting out, “I have got it!” and { rushed downstairs into his study, - where he made a drawing of the last | knife. for the want of which be bad | been so long waiting in order to com- | plete his machine. It appears that be ' had fallen asleep and dreamed about | the machine, and in the dream the so- | lution of the difficulty was revealed to | him.—London Standard. Brown Eyes and Color Blindness. | Color blindness is one of the great | drawbacks to a large percentage of | men who would enlist in the United States marine corps. according to the | recruiting officers. | “We have a box filled with different | colored yarn,” said an officer of that | branch of the service. “We ask the | prospective recruit to pick out green, | for instance. If he is color blind he ! will invariably pick all the red yarn. | We place it all back in the box again | and ask him to pick out the red. In | nine cases out of ten out will come the green. | “Another strange thing 1 have no- ticed is that most persons who are color blind have brown eyes. Once in | awhile a person with eyes of a differ- | ent color is afflicted that way. but as |a general rule they are persons with { brown eyes." —Kansas City Star. i i : He Smoked. | “What a smell of smoke is about! Do you allow your husband to smoke in the parlor?” {| “He doesu't. * morning’ — | “You are very wrong to aliow any exceptions whatever, my dear woman. You ought not to allow him to smoke under any possible circumstances, even once." “But, my dear woman. this morn- ing he simply bad to smoke. His coat was on fire." —New York Journal. as a rule, but this Good Policy. Mrs. Stubb— Why, John, the last family that occupied this house left some old jars in the pantry. Mr. Stubb—H'm! Mary, that is a good policy. Mrs. Stubb—What is a good policy? Mr. Stubb—Why, when you move leave your family jars behind i you.—Chicago News. | Cooking a Hare. “You've heard the recipe for cooking a hare® | “Yes. First catch your hare.” | *No. First eateh your cook.” —Cleve- | land Plain Dealer. i i He Would, Indeed. Singleton—1 cannot understand why | a man's wife is called his better half. | YWWedmore—You would if you had to | divide your salary with one.—Boston | Transcript. i i Serious Business. . Policeman—Hi! What are you doing | up that ladder? Husband (returning | late)—Hush: I'm ouly seeing if my ! wife is already asleep.—Fliegende Blat- ter. i Good humor and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all i over the world.—Alexander Smith. ments of life on a warship during tar- get practice is the necessity for nu- merous baths. After each volley all the men or deck must take a bath. Sometimes there are four or five baths a day. This becomes quite monoto- nous. The Japanese inaugurated this practice. A bath is taken before and after shooting to guard against pos- sible infection of open scratches and cuts from the flying powder. When the big guns go off the landsman on deck is thrown into consternation. A horrible, sickening wrench makes one feel as if each limb were separately grasped and pulled in various direc- tions, and it is a long time until he gets his “sea legs” again. Life aboard ship Is not the ordeal that rumor has characterized it. The hardtack legend is erroneous. The sailors are well fed with the best viands procurable, and their bread, far from being hardtack, is as good as that which is served In any high class hotel or restaurant. There is a spirit of good fellowship among the men below decks. Each man has his separate duties definitely designated, and there are no petty jeal- ousies.—J. W. Aide in Leslie's. No Place For His Talents. At St. John's a man stowed away upon Harry Whitney's yacht, bound for an arctic hunting trip. He was discovered too late to return him to the little Newfoundland port, but Whitney de. .rmined to make him work his passage. He wasn't success- ful at this, however. The stowaway simply couldn't sec any sort of work. Short of personal violence he couldn't be made to button his collar. “By thunder,” Whitney said one day, “I've a notion to leave you here at Etah.” The stowaway seemed mourn- ful. “Bee-lieve muh, Mr. Whitney,” he said emphatically, “you haven't made me so welcome on board your jiggered old yacht that I want to stay. But what could I do up here?’ He swept his hand around at the Eskimo huts, half roof and the rest hole in the ground. “What is your business, anyhow?” Whitney asked curiously. “1” said the stowaway, “am a sec- ond story worker."—Cincinnati Times- Star. A Pathetic Banquet. Jacob A. Riis was discussing in New work his experience as a police re- porter. “They were intense experiences. The pathetic ones had, indeed, such an in- tensity that they couldn't be used in literature. They'd seem overdrawn. For example, one cold and dreary |e Thanksgiving evening as I passed a famous restaurant I saw a little urchin standing before the area, Through the area gratings the Kitchen, brilliantly {lluminated, could be seen. The cook, in his white dress, basted a half dozen great brown birds. “Hf, Timmy! the urchin cried, and a second youngster turned toward him. “ ‘Hi, Timmy. come an’ eat yer crust in the smell from this here kitch- en. It makes it taste just like roast turkey.’ ”—Detroit Free Press. The Arab Steed. An Arab steed of pure breed would probably be outpaced in a race by an English thoroughbred, but in other re- spects It outshines its western rival. It is so docile that it is treated by its owner as one of the family, and it has an iron constitution, for it sleeps out at night without covering or shelter. Nature protects the Arab horse with a thick, furry coat, which is never touched by brush or comb and which falls off at the approach of spring, when the body and legs, which had been shaggy as those of a bear, again resume their graceful beauty and glis- ten in the sun like polished marble.— London Chronicle, A Woman's Letter. Hailed as “the master of feminism,” Marcel Prevost endeavors to make good his right to the title by the fol- lowing bit of philosophy: “Is a wom- an’s hat meant to cover her head? Is a woman's sunshade meant to shade her from the sun? Are a woman's shoes made for walking or her be- jeweled watch meant to tell her the time? Why, then, should a woman's letter be meant to convey her real thoughts ?"—Exchange. The Heirloom, “An heirloom,” explained the farm- er's wife to her thirteen-year-old boy, “js something that has been handed down from father to son and in some instances highly prized.” “I'd prize these heirlooms I'm wear- ing,” remarked the youngster, “a good deal more if they wasn't so long in the legs.” —Everybody’s. Thought For Others. “You should endeavor to do some- thing for the comfort of your fellow men.” said the philanthropist, “without thought of reward.” “I do. I buy um- brellas instead of borrowing them. — Exchange. Her Preference. Miss Smith-—Now, Madge, tell me, which would you rather be—pretty or good? Madge (promptly)—I would rather be pretty, Miss Smith; I can easily be good whenever I like to try.— Punch. A Day Off. Sunday School Teacher—Is your pa a Christian, Bobby? Little Bobby—No'm, not today. He's got the toothache.— Browning's Magazine. A state Is never greater than when ail its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public.—Hume. The Jury Decided That Seven-up Wae Purely Scientific. One of Mark Twain's old time sto Flour and Feed. CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE, PA. Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of under the usual charge of playing a game of chance. When they were brought before the judge their lawyer claimed that this game was not a game of chance, but was a game of Roller Flour science. The court, puzzled, asked for a suggestion, and the lawyer declared Feed that if a jury of six gamblers well ac- quainted with the game in a scientific Corn Meal uy ued dx descons be jubumeicd d G with a pack of cards their decision ought to be determinative. So the sto- an rai Iy goes: “There was no disputing the fairness Manufactures and has on hand at all times the two dominies were sworn in as the ‘chance’ jurymen, and six inveter- WHITE STAR ate old seven-up professors were OUR BEST chosen to represent the ‘science’ side HIGH GRADE VICTORY PATENT FANCY PATENT of the issue. They retired to the jury room. “In about two hours Deacon Peters sent into court to borrow $3 from a friend. In about two hours more Dominie Miggles sent into court to borrow a ‘stake’ from a friend. Dur- The only place i the county where that extraor- dina fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour ing the next three or four hours the’ dominie and the other deacons sent SPRAY into court for small loans. | can be secured. Also International Stock Food “The rest of the story can be told and feed of all kinds. briefly. About daylight the jury came’ Aj kinds of Grain bought at the office. Flou in, and Deacon Job, the foreman, read exchanged for wheat. 2 ot . ¥ the following verdict: i “We, the jury in the case of the commonwealth of Kentucky Eo John Wheeler et al. have carefully 4% considered the points of the case and | = tmm—— tested the merits of the several theo-| A ie at Finejob inating. mously decide that the game common- | Tr ea, ly known as old sledge, or seven-up, INE JOB PRINTING is eminently a game of science and not of chance. In demonstration o—A SPECIALTY—0 whereof it is hereby and herein stated, AT THE iterated, reiterated, set forth and made manifest that during the entire! WATCHMAN OFFICE night the “chance” men never won al There is no of work, from the game or turned a jack, although both cheapest 7’ to the feats were common and frequent to the opposition, and furthermore In | support of this our verdict we call at- i tention to the significant fact that the | “chance” men are all broke and the “gelence” men have got the money. It is the deliberate opinion of this jury | that the “chance” theory concerning | seven-up is a pernicious doctrine and | calculated to Inflict untold suffering and pecuniary loss upon any commu- nity that takes stock in it’” | BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in most satis- Ee Saas ot worke Call on or Insurance. JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Heart Trouble. 1 «Faint heart never won fair lady.” Fire, “Faint heart bas no business to trv Life to win anything: faint heart ought to aee a doctor.” —New York Press. | Accident Insurance Ces the Work: | Insurance NO ASSESSMENTS — | Do not fail to give us a call before insuring Jose JE STERIL woe ones f° Office in Crider’s Stone Building. 43-18-1y. Medical. Heed the Warning MANY BELLEFONTE PEOPLE HAVE DONE SO. ; PA. The Preferred v Accident ! Insurance Co. THE $5000 TRAVEL POLICY When the kidneys are sick they give un | mistakable warnings that should not be | ignored. By examining the urine and | treating the kidneys upon the first sign of | disorder, many days of suffering may be | saved. Sick kidneys expel a dark, ill. smelling urine, full of “brickdust” sedi- | ment and painful in} passage. Sluggish | kidneys cause a dull pain in the small of | the back, headaches, dizzy spells, tired, | 4 BeneriTs: languid feelings and frequent rheumatic i $5,000 death by accident, twinges. i 3.000 loss of fect, Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys | Boas of ot sd one Soot, only; they cure sick kidneys, and rid the i 2,500 loss of either hand, blood of uric poison. If vou suffer from | 2400 lose of either fast any oithe above symptoms you can use | SS abil no better remedy. | pet, week, Ys Bellefonte people recommend Doan’s | " (limit 52 weeks) Kidney Pills. per. week, partial disability. Mrs. H. I. Taylor. 72 S. 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M.D. i WS SR be Tin ogg at his 3541 Dentists. ADB. vp Gas ing teeth. Superior Crown and Bridge work. R. H.W. TATE, Dentist, Office D the Bush Pa. All mod: years of capenehoe Work of Superior quality and reasonable. Lumber. ~via BUILDING MATERIAL : When you are ready for it, ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours ARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.. for pic amilies public Or pln A te Sur af A Aroat syrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, High St., Bellefonte, Pa. Meat Market. 50-32-1y. Get the Best Meats. STE LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and with the fresh. £5 hoes het Dod and muscle mak higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. I always 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. EE ——— Coal and Wood. EDWARD K. RHOADS SherEiak: "snd Dealer in ANTHRACITE asp 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 may suit purchasers, respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and the public, at his Coal Yard, near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station. 1613 Telephone Calls: {Comral lat ea ———————————————————————————— Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria.
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