Bellefonte, Pa., January 27, 1911. _— Attractive Title. The difficulty of using a foreign lan- guage wes amusingly illustrated when a certain mission started work in Chi- @a. They were in some perplexity, says Rev. lord Gascoyne-Cecll in “Changing China.” as to the title they should choose for their society. They wanted to convey to the Chinese that their denomination claimed especially to feed the souls of men. They ex- plained all this to an educated China- man and quoted well known texts. He immediately wrote down two char- acters and assured them that they rep- resented what they had said about the spiritual food that they provided and would also be very popular with the Chinese. as indeed it proved. The moment they openad the door of the <hapel the; were besieged by hun- dreds of Chinese of the poorer class, who, after listening for a short time, went away discontentedly. The mis- slonsnries fond out afterward that the title given to them, literally translated. was “health giving free restaurant” -— a most attractive title to the hungry Chinese! Proof of His Generosity. The teacher had a class in English literature Lofore her. The subject for the day wis Gray's “Elegy.” She had asked the class to bring in questions on the life of Gray. These questions were fo -be deposited in a box which was to be opened before the class and each question read aloud. If no one could answer it the one who contrib- uted it was to be called on for the an- swer. The first slip drawn out contained this: “Give a proof of Gray's generosity.” The tercher thought of what a re- cluse Gray iad been and of how little interest he had ever shown in his fel- lows, and she wondered how any one could have . received the lmpression that he was generous. Every ane looked blank. and no one atteinped to answer, The girl who wrote the question wis called on for hier “prooi.” amd this is what she said, “He gave to wisery all he had a tear” ~—Nntional Monthly, Letters and Postage Stamps. { “Strange ideas some people have | about postage,” said the clerk who | opens the wail. “Yes, Sec this letter | flere with three one-cent stamps on it | and stomped 1 cent due? That's al case in point. The writer of that let! ter thought that perhaps it weighed a Tittle over an ounce, a little more thaw | would go for 2 cents, and so he put on | a little more postage -1 cent more— | which he thought would cover it.when | the faci i« that it required zu addi- | tonal two cent stump, Of course you | know that letter postage ds not frac’ tonstalsat that it goes in multiples of two. 10 a letter weighs ever so little! aver an ounce it requires an additional | two cent stamp. But not everybody | seems te know this, and so we some- | times get letters like this one with o | Httle were postage for a little more | weight.” Now York Sun. A Strange Situation. “Tweet i a very funny thing." said! Binks. “It eught to be” pher, “Ol, said the philoso- 1 don't mean that way,” said Binks. “I mean that it is a strange thing. Now, [ can't speak ["rench, but I can always understand a French | joke, and U can speak English, but! I'm blest if I ean see an English joke." “Most people are,” sald the philoso- | pher. “Are what?” said Binks. “Blest if they can see an English | joke." said the philosopher. “It is a | sign of an unusually keen vision | Hacper's Weekly. i Force of the Imagination. \ There is a story of a man who was | tied up in a dark room and informed | that he was to be put to death by | bleeding. His tormentors made a small incision in his neck and arrang- ed for a stream of lukewarm water to trickle down his back for fifteen min- | utes. At the end of fifteen minutes the man died of exhaustion. He had not lost a drop of blood, but he thought | Be had. Such is the power of sugges- , tien.—Tondon Saturday Review. Suggested a Remedy. | Even medical gentlemen are not de- | wold of professional jealousy. Two | doctors were bragging about the nw ber of their patients. “Why, last night I was wakened up | half a dozen times.” said the younger | “You were, eh?’ replied the other. “Well, arhy don't you buy some insect powder?” Did Not Look Like It. “What is 1t?” asked the visitor in the studio. “An Italian sunset,” proud artist. “Oh? | “Didn't you ever see an Italian sun- | set? “Ql, yes. That is the reason I asked what it was."—Yonkers Statesman. replied the Considerate. “Phe most considerate wife [| ever keard of.” said the philosopher, “was a woman who used to date all her let- ters a week or so ahead to allow her husband time to post them.” Accomplished. Blobbs—1. never knew such a liar as Tongbow. Slobbs — Yes: that fellow could actually eat an onion and lie out of it.—Pkiladelphia Record. HE PUNISHED GRANT. The Cadet Was Guilty of Dismounting Without Leave. While a student at West Point U. 8. Grant excelled in mathematics and horsemanship. He jumped his horse over a bar five feet six inches high. which made a record for the academy and a close second to the highest jump ever recorded in America. He recelv- ed little honor for some of his efforts, however, notably in the case recalled by Nicholas Smith in “Grant, the Man of Mystery.” But perhaps the humor of it reconciled him. The riding master was onc Hersh. berger. “an amusing sort of tyrant,” and on one occasion, whether seriously or as a joke, he determined to “take down" the young cadet. At the exercise Grant was mounted on a powerful but vicious brute that the cadets fought shy of and was put at leaping the bar. ‘The bar was placed higher and high- er as he came round the ring till it passed the record. The stubborn rider would not say “enough.” but the horse was disposed to shy and refuse to make the leap. Grant gritted his teeth and spurred at it, but just as the horse gathered for the spring his swelling body burst the girth, and the rider and saddle tumbled into the ring. Half stunned, Grant gathered him- self up from the dust only to hear the “strident. cynical voice” of Hershber- zer calling out: “Cadet Grant, six demerits for dis- mounting without leave!” BEAT HIM TO THE STATION. The Message That Got There Before the Patrolman Did. “When | was a patrolman,” says a prominent detective, “there used to be a sergeant on the force who had it in for me. He reported me for various delinquencies, and--well, he's dead now, and 1 won't say anything against him. He got sick, and It was reported at the station that he wasn't expected to live. So the boss called me amd told me to go around and see if 1 could do anything for the old fellow. 1 called at the house and asked if | could see him. They let me in, | tip | toed into the room where the sergeant | was in bed and sald. “The lieutenani sent me around to see how you were getting along.’ “He spoke with difficulty, but I could make out what he said. ‘Go back.’ he grunted, ‘and tell 'em that I'm getting along fine. The boys have fixed me up all right, and I don’t need anything I'm feeling better.’ “80 1 went back to the station. | was stopped a couple of times on my way and got In about half an hour later. Then | made my report ‘He says he's better and doesn’t need any- thing. says 1. The lieutenant jumped up. ‘Do you mean to xay that you saw him? says he. ‘1 did. says L ‘And he told you he wax all right? ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘You blamed liar! shouts the lieutenant. minutes ago that he was dead” “And it was true. What do you think of that old scoundrel trying to get me in bad with his dying breath?” ~Cleveland Plain Dealer. rm ——— i — A Picture of “Night. Along the high hedged lane John Strong swung, the June glonming deep- ening into night. He loved to shove his face into the night. He gloried in the uncertainty of night, the indefi- niteness of night, and his soul cried back a wild answer to the ery of the nighthawk and the owl. Night is more primitive than day: night is more | calamitous: night is a savage: night everywhere is the true aborigine. Day has taken on civilization. Night hurls '! the world back to the day of the war club. the flint arrowhead, the painted visage. John Strong loved the night with an almost malevolent love. In the night he could wear the Valkyries screaming, the witches riding their broomsticks. the ghouls scraping the mold from off the new buried coffin | John Strong swung along. his face set to meet baeowing ujabt=-2Aveatire. Where He Drew the Line. Thomas was un old gumekeeper on Sir Greville's Scotch estate, says Sir William Kennedy in “Sport In the Navy." When he was sixty years old he contracted measles and was very ill for a time. Sir Greville, with char acteristic kindness, sent the old man some hothouse grapes and a pineapple. The nest time the two met Sir Greville asked Thomas how he liked the fruit. “Weel, Sir Greville,” answered the gamekeeper, “the plums was good. but 1 dinna think much of the turnip.” Ulterior Motives. “See, here.” sald the kind hearted lady. “1 gave you a plece of ple two weeks ago, and you have been sending one or more of your friends here every day since.” “Youse do me a Injustice, ma'am,” replied the husky hobo. “Dem guys . wot | sent wuz me enemies.” —Chica- go News. Not Familiar With the Quotation. “Ah, Mr Blinks” said the fair one lightly. “1 see you wear your heart upon your sleeve ™ Mr. Blinks tooked bewildered and hastily pulled down his cuffs. “] guess maybe It wax my red flan pel underwear you noticed.” he lamely remarked. —Clevelund Plain Dealer. ——— The Bed. ‘fhe bed is n bundle of paradoxes. We go to it with reluctance, yet we quit It with regret. We make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it lute.—Colton. ‘I got a message ten The Church That Stands In the Field of Forty Footsteps. The church in Woburn square, Lon- don, Is said to occupy the site of the “Field of Ferty Footsteps,” to which a tragic legend attaches. The story dates from the days of Monmouth's rebellion. According to the version given in Mr. J. 8. Ogilvy's “Relics and Memorials of London Town,” two brothers fell in love with a woman who, either from callous vanity or fearing reprisals from the unsuccessful suitor, would not say which was to be the favored swain, suggesting that they should fight a duel and to the victor she would give her charms. They came from the town to this suburban field. The woman calmly sat down to await events. She had not long to wait, judging from the number of foot- prints, when one of the brothers fell dead, and as the victor approached she held out her arms to greet him, when, with a sudden revulsion of feel- ing for his brother's death, he slew her as she stood, and, turning the weapon, Le drove it through his own heart. So they were found stiff in death with the footprints stamped in the wet clay. where they remained indelible through summer heat and winter frost; no green thing would grow, nor any man build himself a dwelling there. Streets were erected all round, | but it was not until the nineteenth century that men took heart of grace and built a church there. when the | consecration of the ground rolled back the curse and the memory of the leg- | { end grew faint and faded away. a Organ Pipes. The names of the different parts of | an organ pipe are interesting. For in- | stance, the air is forced in through a | hole in the pointed toe of the pipe, | goes through the flue (the slit cut in : the side) and strikes the lip. i | | i i in some | cases it then hits the beard (a metal | eyxlinder attached just below the open- | ing) and rebounds against the lip, pro- | ducing a double vibration. also a tongue, called the harrel. Exchange. Faultfinding. Often the most unhappy people are those who have lost the art of admira- tion and become experts in the art of fanltfinding. Beauty is everywhere. but they see it not because of the flaws somewhere below it. Faultfind- ers should turn their magnifying glasses upon themselves and there dis- cover why they are not loved, no — There is | Carries On. Woggs—So young Saphead and his father are carrying on the business? Boggs—Yes. The old man does the business. while voung Saphend does the carrying on -- "nek Repentance is the golden ker that opens the paiace of eternity —Miiton. mov AL TYPEWRITERS. (esas as as an ananananan a. AA A AM A AB AM AB AM A AA AM. AA A. ty ROY on a busy day. of better materials. | { { { { { q | | | | Machine. | : | | | Standard Typewriter easier to operate, and capable of unlimited speed. A Royal in Your Office will Soon Save its Own Cost. Price, $65.00 The right price to pay for a high-grade writing ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO. Royal Typewriter Bldg., New York. BRANCH OFFICE AL ment is an item The Royal represents economy in more ways than one. Whether you use one machine or fifty, your typewriter equip- of EXPENSE. Reduce the expense, and you increase your PROFITS. It costs less to keep in order, because it stays in order—doesn’t waste time by breaking down It turns out more work, because it is easier to understand, It does Better work, and lasts longer, because it is simpler, has fewer working parts, and they are made WY CCV CY UY WY WY WY WY WY WY WY WY WY vv ww WY WY WY YY WV vv ww ! thirty-seven volumes and dealing with all the then known facts of the world. Pliny. who died A. D. 79, collected the data for his work in his leisure inter- vals while engaged in public affairs. | The “Natural History” was for its time an amazing production, treated of some | 20,000 facts and was of very high aa- thority throughout the entire middle ages. Forty-three editions of the work were printed before the year 1536, and no scholar's library was considered complete without it.—~New York Amer- ican. Wakeful Night. A rather imaginative Washington lady decided she had insomnia. She couldn't sleep, she sald. One morn- ing she was more than usually de- “What's the matter, dear?’ asked ————————— | gloomily. “I did manage to drop off | to sleep, and 1 dreamed all the time 1 | was asleep that | was awake.”—Phil- ; adelphia Saturday Evening Post. Made the Rhyme. “Carpet” rhymes with evade the difficulty thus: “Sweet maid of the inn. ‘tis surely no sin to toast such a beautiful bar carpet.”—London Answers. Cynical. ways run smooth.” sighed the young widow. “That's right,” rejoined the oid bach- no single! ' word, but some bold poet dared to’ “The course of true love doesn't al- | forty different meanings. Little Miss—Same way in English. “You amaze me. Mention ope.” “Not at home.” 55-47-0t 904 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. THE MALLORY STUDIO, Representative at Bellefonte, Pa. do vv-wv ww WY WW WY WY WY YT WY WY WY WY ww ww rar ar wy wu Tie Oriol Erlend i. oO TT, a The first real encyclopedia was the husband. “Another sleepless Many Meanings. and the upper part is | Pliny’s “Natural History.” This work night?" Te veler Some 27 wg BM ' was an extensive one, numbering some “Worse than that” she replied Chinese language have as - The beloved of the Almighty are the ity of the rich.—8andl pet; believe me, my dear. your feet | would appear at home on a nobleman’s rich who have the humility of the poor and the poor who have the magnanim- elor. “Sometimes it ends in mar The Kind You Have Always Bought. riage.” —Chicago News. Dry Goods. Dry Goods. i Worth Health: the health of their feet. them get wet. lowed to go out the best and the Bush Arcade Building, Yeagers Shoe Store Are Children Bringing Up? It can’t be done without RUBBERS. This is what appeared in a recent number of the American Journal or The family doctor should din it into the mother's head all the time, that Keep the feet dry. Never let No child should be al- when walking is wet, without Rubbers. RememBer, Yeager's Rubbers are cheaper than the other fellows. Yeager’s Shoe Store, children lies in the in snow or rain, or prices just a little BELLEFONTE, PA. LYON & CO. and Wash Silk. Allegheny St. 4712 THE LARGEST White :- : Sale etc. Is now on at our store. Everything * new and bought with special care to make this the largest and best White Sale we ever held. New muslin Underwear for Ladies and Children, new Table Linens and Napkins, Towels, Muslin and Sheetings at old prices. New White Goods in Cotton, Linen Lace and Embroideries, the finest and at lowest prices. New Tailored Shirt Waists, Percales, Ginghams, in fact, every- thing that belongs to a large store. Complete in every department. We cannot give you a full list of all the Bargains. Come in and see our stock and you will see we mean to do | as we advertise. Rummage Sale. In addition to this big White Sale we are making a Rummage of all small fots of odds and ends in everything in the store. This will mean goods bought at less than cost for winter and sum- mer stuffs. The Rummage Table will mean dol- lars saved for all customers. I —— LYON & COMPANY, Bellefonte, Pa.
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